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First Impressions<\/h2>\n

\"Copenhagen<\/a><\/p>\n

Note: \u00a0All of the photos in this edition, except for the title shot\u00a0at the top, were taken with my phone, not my real camera. \u00a0The management regrets any inconvenience to the reader.<\/em><\/p>\n

So. \u00a0After my big love affair with Stockholm, could my next port of call, Copenhagen, possibly compete? \u00a0This is what I was wondering as I lumbered off of the train.<\/p>\n

\"Tivoli_Gate\"<\/a>Outside: \u00a0Iron gray skies and lots and lots of\u00a0grim, drab, reddish brown brick. \u00a0And across the street? \u00a0The famous Tivoli Gardens, which I\u2019d read about all my life, was not the glittering fantasy garden I\u2019d always imagined.\u00a0 It\u2019s a hundred years old, and it feels much more like Coney Island than Epcot.<\/p>\n

Okay, maybe I’m being a little hard on Tivoli. \u00a0But it wasn’t the glittering, shimmering fantasy land that I’d always imagined it would be.<\/p>\n

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Some of the attractions at Tivoli Gardens were renovated and modernized. In about 1923.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then there was this guy. \u00a0I realize we Americans dress like slobs, but really? \u00a0A tie at an amusement park?<\/p>\n

\"Tie<\/a><\/p>\n

Visually, Copenhagen, with its brown brick and flat, ancient fortress-town feel, simply cannot compete with fairy-tale, hilly, island-sprinkled Stockholm.\u00a0 Frankly, very few cities could.<\/p>\n

The park had the usual unlikely claims outside food shops:<\/p>\n

\"Original?<\/a>
Original? I do not think that word means what you think it means.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Outside the park, Copenhagen wasn’t winning my heart yet, either.<\/p>\n

Of course, they went there:<\/p>\n

\"Yeah,<\/a><\/p>\n

And why is there a statue of Danny Kaye in the middle of Copenhagen?<\/p>\n

\"Danny<\/a><\/p>\n

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And all that dreary brown red brick.<\/p>\n

So was this to be my lasting impression of Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen? \u00a0It turns out all it took was a little Segway tour to begin turning me around on the Danish capital…<\/p>\n

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