Tivoli Gardens

For those of you who love places like Disneyland or any other over the top amusement parks with rides and shops, you owe it all to Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. The park opened in 1843, making it the second oldest amusement park in the world. On a trip with his wife, Walt Disney was inspired after visiting the park and decided to create the same sense of wonder and imagination. Regardless of your feelings toward all things Disney, Tivoli really takes the cake for creating a space to simply have fun. Kels and I had an absolute great time, laughing till we cried (literally on one ride this happened), and marveling at the amazing Christmas decorations.

I'm not a huge fan of roller coasters, especially ones that toss you upside down, but Kels somehow talked me into going on this beast...

Yes that's us being flung around 

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Kronborg Castle

On Sunday we traveled to the town of Helsingor, just North of Copenhagen, to visit the Kronborg Castle, otherwise known as Hamlet's castle. Here's a brief background on the history of Kronborg: a castle has stood on these grounds since the 1420s, but Denmark became Protestant in 1536…so Kronborg was built from 1574 to 1585 under Frederik II in the Renaissance style. Most of the time, the castle was empty since the king was traveling around the country with his court. Come 1602, Shakespeare wrote Hamlet. It burnt down in 1629, which allowed King Christian IV to rebuild the castle in the Baroque style. In 1658 the Swedes conquered Kronborg, taking ornamentation and objects with them. The army converted the castle into barracks in 1785 but left in 1923; since 1938 the castle has been open to visitors, marking it as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

Enjoy!

So that's Sweden...

underneath the castle…it got real creepy real fast

there we no lights and fake wax figures hidden in random gloomy spots–safe to say we were screaming like babies the entire way through, completely under the impression that we were stuck down there.

We couldn't wrap our minds around the fact that we were standing in Denmark, looking at Sweden. One of the smaller, but coolest moments I've had since being abroad.

Even the train stations are gorgeous! 

We hopped back on the train to spend our last night at Tivoli Gardens.

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Copenhagen Day 2

Day two started out with coffee and pastries on our walk to the botanical gardens .

After, we walked to the Round Tower to take in some views from above the observatory. The Round Tower is Europe's oldest functioning astronomy observatory.

Found the cutest shops and street performers on our way to Nyhavn! 

A quick stop at the Carlsberg brewery to sample some beers.

A lovely dinner at Peder Oxe; Kels had deer and I had rare beef with veggies

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