Journal no. 3

H.C. Andersen Eventyrhuset

I still get a bit agitated thinking about the trouble I had with finding this "H.C. Andersen" attraction.
I didn't have the exact name of it, and mixed it up with the H.C. Andersen Slottet, which was part of the Tivoli Gardens.

So we walked around the Tivoli block twice in the hot sun, asked the ticket counter guy at Tivoli to show us where it was, only to have him stare at us as if we weren't speaking English, and get a 'let's be patient with the tourists' response and vague map on where we should be going instead.

It turned out to be a part of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not Attraction. Totally not part of Tivoli.

I became more embarrassed after realising that I harrassed the Tivoli guy for nothing.
And, Ripley's is not a popular tourist attraction for people in the know.
I pretty much blame my mom for wanting to visit this place. Sorry mom.

That's what H.C. looked like. They say he wasn't too good-looking,which was why he liked books more.

Little Mermaid. Haha.

And that's him again.
It took us 10 minutes to completely go thru the whole thing.


Dansk Design Center


This design center is actually closed. Or Something.
So the sign at the door said. I can't remember.

But the cafe (only 2 customers) was open. And there was a small exhibition of design stuff.


Walking to Christianshavn

Copenhagen is just full of awesome.
That's all I can say.
Cool door posts.

Boats in the canal.

Over the bridge.


Dansk Arkitektur Center


I chose to look for the Architecture Center, thinking it might be a cool museum.
Nope. It was a little thing, almost like the Design Center.
And we got lost trying to find it - bear in mind that we did not have internet access. We were using vague maps and guesswork.

After walking down piss alleys and making u-turns, we got to the right street, but had to make a 50/50 decision on which side to walk to.
In front of us were 2 imposing buildings facing the water, none of which had any signage for the Arkitektur Center.
Mom suggested the left, whereas I thought the right would be correct.
Well, I had the map, but yeah, we went right and finally found the little sign for the Center.

It was up some galvanized metal stairs, like a hip warehouse entrance.
Which led to a bookstore. Apparently no one goes there for the architecture exhibitions.
The 2 friendly staff directed us to the lockers and told us we were free to look around. They must have thought we were very silly to expect lots of Danish architecture displays to look at.

There was this thing. A circular block of apartments. Some multimedia on building materials.

And this thing. Mirror to spy on neighbours with, without having to stick your head out of the window.
Also, some cool double-mirror windows from which we could see the people rowing in the water outside, or walking on the promenade. It was interesting because we saw from an unusual angle, going in a 45 deg direction of where they were actually heading.