Copenhagen - The Final Snegl

Our flight home wasn't until 5pm, so we had a leisurely morning at the hotel, then made our way over to our favorite bakery for one last Snegl.









Even Tony had to have one last Kanelstang (cinnamon stick).

It was a rainy morning, and we'd ducked inside the bakery just in time to avoid a sudden, believe it or not, Hail Storm!




We enjoyed strolling leisurely through the streets taking in Copenhagen. A fascinating city with a long history and a bright present. It is a College town, and there was a huge fascinating interactive touch screen outside a student housing building to promote it. I'd never seen a promotion like this before at this scale.


We'd hoped to visit the Glyptotek Museum, but unfortunately, we'd not realized it was closed on Mondays. It is the art collection of Carlsberg founder JC Jacobsen and a gift to the city of Copenhagen. It would have been neat to see. Instead, we went to see. . .



The Museum of Danish Design. As a shopper at Ikea, I've been exposed to the Scandinavian design asthetic for a good part of my life. Indeed, it seems that most of England (and the world for that matter) is furnished by Ikea these days. It was fun to see where it comes from. Such designers as Arne Jacobsen revolutionized chair designs, and you see his influence to this day.



We got to see a few Arne Jacobsen's chairs as well as other products he designed. He managed to design everything from buildings to chairs to small appliances.

The museum did hammer home the point that design has impact on our daily lives and that good design can improve our world. An example they showed was a Hospital gown that took into account needs for modesty, dignity, and respect for peoples different religeous beliefs. It was interesting to see how all of these interests have an impact on how the final design can be realized.






Of course they had one of my favorite designs on display. The Bodum Coffee Maker.







From there, we went for lunch at this cute authentic Danish lunch place. It is only open Monday through Friday, and the lady who owns and operates it comes in early to cook all the meats and assemble the smørrebrød sandiches herself.





They look so pretty in the window. We'd seen this place on Friday, and had to wait all weekend to eat here.








They were all very reasonably priced and are served on this Danish Rye Bread that Tony came to love.



We ordered an assortment and had a nice lunch outside the small sandwich shop. It was fun to try a bunch of different sandwiches. We figured that if we didn't like it, it was only a few bites.






With that, it was time to start to the airport. On our way to the station, we passed the stature of Hans Christian Andersen. He almost seemed to be tipping his hat to us as if to say thanks for visitng Copenhagen.




We boarded our train to make the easy journey to the airport. Once there, we were greeted with a pleasant surprise. . .





There was an outlet of my favorite Danish Bakery. They had some beautiful cupcakes with fresh fruit on them. We couldn't help ourselves, and we both had to have one last Danish Pastry for the road. . . or rather air.