He now hopes he will become a morning person once he returns to Australia. Narelle wishes otherwise. She has enjoyed seeing John at breakfast time.
We drifted off to the city after breakfast. Dropped in to see the royal museum palace. Then saw some art at the national gallery.
Whilst on the tube (or metro as it is called) I realised that I could not find a driver, because they may not have any. This means you can see out the front or the back. So you will see such things as the tunnel below. This was taken from the front carriage. Very cool.
Then it was off to see the final stage of the Tour of Denmark. Rel had seen some blurb on Saturday about a crit race near our hotel. We hadn’t planned to see it, but thought it was a chance to rest up and see some more of the local area in which we were staying.
Turns out it was the finish of the Tour of Denmark. A few Aussies (Scott Davis, Nick Gates to name a couple) were racing.
So we drifted off to it. It was a nice contrast to the Tour De France. A little more low key. The finish was well supported by the locals.
Lots of young children in CSC outfits, which was really cool.
We saw the boys come around 10 times, including the finish. We were about 100m from the finish.
One of the riders came by and offered up hist water bottle. John would have taken it , except he had his camera going. He was pleased that a local child managed to grab it.
We even saw a future generation of Danish cyclists.
Then we caught the metro off to the city for a bite to it. Before the restaurant opened for dinner we went for a coffee, and stumbled across an observatory. Very cool, with views over the city and to Sweden.
Here is the walk up the inside of the tower.
The restaurant was a real fondue place. John had only sampled cheese or chocolate fondue back in the 80s, not a real fondue meal. The waitress enquired about our origin when we apologized for not understanding danish. Turns out she had recently spent some time in Australia, and had worked in Brisbane. Small world.
Speaking of a small world, I forgot to mention a followup to the young lady we met on our flight to Copenhagen.
On Saturday we caught a bus into the city. You can imagine our surprise when someone said “Hello”. It turns out it was the young lady we had met on the flight.
We were able to give her some advice on a few aspects of inner city Copenhagen. Turns out she had fun with her accomodation as she had booked for 2009, not 2008.
Sounds like something John would do.
After dinner we returned to our hotel.
Tomorrow we head back to the UK. The forecast is for lots of rain on Monday.
We have been blessed with awesome weather thus far in our entire trip. But our charmed run is about to end.
Even today was forecast for rain, but it held off. At least where we were it held off.
Given all that we have been doing, the rain may give us an excuse to back off the pace a little.
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