MAGICAL MALLORCA!!: Copenhagen - Day 4 of 10

Geez....it's gonna be 2021 before I get this 10-day Copenhagen trip blogged!!!

Ok...PRESSING ON.....

St. Aleksander Nevsky a block away from the 'Marble Church'. A Russian Orthodox church topped with beautiful golden 'onion' domes.

Frederik's Church, popularly known as The Marble Church for its rococo architecture, is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Copenhagen. Construction started in 1749 and it was finished by 1894. SLOW POKES!!!

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From the churches, I hopped a city bus and headed for Stroget street...considered one of Europes longest pedestrian-only shopping street at a little under a mile long. Copenhagen established it as a car-free zone back in 1962. Pretty advanced thinking for the time!!

A pretty cool fountain featuring a frog puking water.

That was my day. Not a lot of picture-taking. So, I'll take this opportunity to share some of my general observations of Copenhagen life:

I found everyone to be very kind and helpful, always with a smile.
Most everyone spoke English.
Recycle. Many types of plastic bottles, with specific symbols, and cans can be fed into a machine at the grocery store and you get money back. I took a small bag of them to the local store a block away. I was surprised at how much I got back! 24.00 But, that’s in Krones which amounted to about $3 which ain’t bad! The machine prints a receipt the cashier uses to either credit against your grocery bill or simply hand you cash.
Carlsborg beer is produced in CPN. It was very common to see people drinking a can of beer in public places…no biggie.
I was disappointed at all the blocky no-character buildings stemming from modern days. Most apartment buildings were nothing more than a box with windows. And, unless you went to the suburbs outside of the center of the city, pretty much all dwellings were apartments.
Dogs can go on busses and trains, too. None of them that I saw were wearing muzzles like is required in Mallorca.
Lots of 7-11’s.
In all my wanderings, I only spotted ONE gas station.
Unlike Mallorca, there were very few motorized scooters and nowhere near the number of electric scooters, either…though there was plenty available to rent but seemed to be rented primarily by tourists. It's all about BICYCLES!!!
Speaking of transport, tourists could rent a small ELECTRIC motorboat and tootle about the canals on their own. Called 'Go-Boats' each craft was outfitted with a picnic table so you can enjoy a meal and a beer(s) while tootling....electrically.
Most restaurants provid blankets. If it's not sunny or warm, that doesn't stop CPN'ers from enjoying eating/drinking outdoors. They'll put on a jacket and scarf and cozy up with the blanket.
You know those plastic rings that keep 6 cans of beer together but are horrible for the environment, especially sea life? They now use a dime-sized dot of glue on the side of each can to keep the 6-pack together. Just yank a can away and the remaining 5 are still connected. Genius!
I noticed very few street light poles. Instead, a cable is strung from one side of the street to the other and a lamp(s) is suspended midway which lights the entire area.
It was obviously election time when I was there. Candidate posters were out in force. Without knowing the facts, it was clear there are rules as to the type and size allowed to be posted in public places. ALL of the candidates signs were the same size...approximately 16" x 24".
At the grocery store I regularly went to, every day they had a non-personed stand with several opened bottles of wine sitting out and a stack of small plastic cups (about the size of a shot glass). You could taste-test the wine before considering buying!! NEVER would be allowed in the US of A!!! By gosh, chillen could become drunks!!
It freaked me out to get a 500 bill out of my wallet to pay for my groceries! I mean, I just came from Ecuador where vendors freak if you hand them a $20 bill!! But, I had to remember, a 500 bill in Krones is really about $63 bucks.