We would love to know the history of this country, but they start way too far back, like the Stone Age. So we have to wade through the Stone and Middle Ages to get to the Kings and Queens that interest us and whose castles and palaces we've been visiting.
We saw and read about living conditions of the rich and the peasants in the 1700's.
Denmark became wealthy off of slaves working tobacco, cotton, and sugar plantations in the Caribbean.
During the 1800's Denmark seemed to be in a lot of disagreements with other countries. Subsequently, they lost the whole country of Norway to Sweden and a bunch of land in the south to Germany.
Karen did find some ancient Pandora beads for her bracelet.
We were going to eat in the cafe, but it's mostly a buffet, so we leave the museum to forage for food much as those Vikings must have done in the Middle Ages. After lunch we went back and finished the museum.
Next we went on to the Round Tower. What an interesting tower. The tower was on the end of the Trinitatis Church
The Round Tower was built by King Christian IV (yep, him again) between 1637 and 1642. There are no stairs in the tower until you get up to the very top. Why? How, you might ask, do you get up it then? Just walk. He was so lazy he didn't want to walk up all those stairs to the top of his tower, so he had them build a circular brick path to the top so he could ride his horse up to the top. Yes, on his horse.
We enjoyed the walk instead of stairs and then enjoyed the view of the city.
Tivoli is in the heart of the city.
Frederik's Church over by Amelianborg Palaces
The oldest observatory in Europe is up here also!
Here's some perspective about how wide and tall the walking area was.
At the bottom of the tower across the Stroget there was a guy selling warm, sugared almonds. Yes, as we strolled the pedestrian only area, we finished the whole bag, just before 5 pm. I guess dinner will be a little later tonight.
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