We started our day with a hunt for bicycles. The challenge is that there weren’t any kid sized bikes nor tandems in Copenhagen that we could find. Our third stop had one of these carts so the Kid got to be a lady of leisure for the day. She got to sit back and relaxing while H and I pedaled thru the town. What I will say is that Copenhagen has their bike lanes organized correctly. While Amsterdam was well set out, it was very chaotic. Copenhagen bike lanes  were well organized and orderly. We rode about 10 miles throughout the day and the entire time we had our own lanes and felt safe.

I had this purple beauty. I thought the smaller seat wouldn’t hurt my bum as much but that wasn’t the case!

Everywhere we went we saw these bike locks. They were attached to the bikes and were amazing. People wouldn’t even  attach the bikes to structures with locks because they felt secure in these locks.

After riding around a bit we went to Tivoli Gardens. It is a very famous amusement park and honestly I think it is amazing. It opened in August 1843 and is the second oldest amusement park in the world. Unlike other amusement parks, everything is really classy. There are beautiful gardens everywhere. The buildings are exotic, the gardens were immaculate and blossoming. There were restaurants and band stands and of course there were lots of rides. Even the gardens in the rides were manicured. It was busy but not over crowded. It was just lovely. The gift shops didn’t even have cheap souvineers and instead had very “Pottery Barn” style house decorations. 

Tivoli’s oldest and most popular ride, the wooden Roller Coaster from 1914, is one of only seven roller coasters in the world that has a person riding and using a hand brake. 

We left early and went to the Copenhagen Street Food Market for lunch. It had a huge selection of international street food and everything we bought was tasty! 

Again my neighborhood researching was unsuccessful. Note to self: stop looking for travel info on Quora. We walked in and out of this one pretty quickly. 

We rode a bit further and came across these trampolines…

From there we rode to the Little Mermaid statue which was built in 1913 and was inspired by Hans Christian Andersens story about a Little Mermaid… My guess is that you have heard Disney’s version of the story before.

We returned the bikes and returned to Tivoli for some more fun!

I have included the picture below so H has a record of some planters I would love for him to build…

More miscellaneous pictures:

At night, thousands of coloured lights create a fairy tale atmosphere that is completely unique.

So much fun!