European Adventures: Like seriously, this place is gorgeous.

Hello! Today is the one month anniversary of my leaving Sydney. Wow. It both feels like it hasn't been that long at all but also that it has gone quite fast. Well, four more months in Denmark and five and half til I get home!

Today I present to you... photos! Of the city! According to Google it was 7 whole degrees celcius outside. I think I even felt some warmth from the sun! It was amazing. So, rather than stay home and do uni work, naturally I went out exploring.

Again a reminder, if you click on the photos they will be enlarged :)

First was to Kongens Have, the Rosenberg Palace and Gardens. The Palace is now a museum, as are many in and around Copenhagen. I'll get around to visiting eventually. Today was about outside!

I continued wandering on, in search of Den Lille Havfrue, plus I was curious what this shape was. I mean a giant star-shaped thing on a map... So I cross into what looked like the entrance to the mangroves at Bicentennial Park, and found myself in a cute little park with bird feeders and views of a palace or church or something. There is a lot of those somethings around town.

There was just something really quaint about the place. Walking along by the (suspiciously still) river, people walking dogs, the couple sitting on the hill... It was nice. Copenhagen is a pretty small city, really, with only 560 000 or so people living here, but even still, I didn't feel like I was in a city any more. But I was on the wrong side of the river to where I wanted to be, to check out the windmill (that you can kind of just see peeking out of the trees).

So I was really glad when I got to a bridge, and gate. So it turns out, according to the sign, that Kastellet is a fort. So the hills weren't hills, they were ramparts, and it wasn't a river but a moat! The sign said it was still owned by the military but it was open to the public.

I'm not exactly sure who fought who or what. But in any case, it is pretty cool. There is also a memorial and you can walk around the whole upper rampart.

Now I had been warned that Den Lille Havfrue was "the most underwhelming statue in existence". But I nonetheless wanted to check it out, it is a national monument, and to get my Hans Christian Andersen on. And yeah, it is pretty small. Very small. But still quite cute.