Our hotel in Copenhagen is right across the street not only from the train station, but from Tivoli Gardens as well. (More on Tivoli in a moment.) In the name of all womankind, I feel compelled to make note of a specific aspect of, at least, our room in this lovely old hotel. The toilet tissue is directly in front of the commode. I was getting very tired of having to perform acrobatic twists and gymnastic turns in order to reach the toilet tissue in most of our previous hotels! Kudos to the Plaza Hotel for being so user friendly to those of us who use the commode frequently! Sorry if anyone is offended by that comment!
Now about Tivoli. Ivan and I visited Tivoli in 1974 and we have coherent and similar memories of the place. I visited Tivoli in June of 1984 with Nathan, who was 17 months old, and Ivan's Mother and my memories of the place are pretty strong. This afternoon, Ivan and I visited Tivoli and we were shocked and disappointed. The place is really kind of trashy now and I would never recommend a visit here to anyone I know. I remember beautiful gardens, I remember a quiet and almost meditative place, I remember people walking and admiring the many different types of gardens. Now it's like an expensive, but cheap - if you get my meaning - amusement park. The gardens, at least what's left of them, are neglected, the little pond gardens are full of algae and trash, and there's litter everywhere (my sister Doggie Divas know how I feel about litter!).
So, today, Wednesday, has gone well as far as our travel went, but was a big disappointment in seeing a place we had remembered as very different.
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