It had rained quite a bit during the night, but when we were ready to head out after breakfast, it was chilly and very windy, but no rain. The rain clouds were gathered and there were many awaiting their turn, but it was dry when we departed our hotel. This time, we walked in the direction opposite to the one we had gone the previous 2 days we've been here. Our first stop was the Tycho Brahe Museum and Planetarium. It was not what we expected, so we just looked around a bit and left. We had thought that it would have information about the life of Brahe, but the young lady at the ticket counter said there was a small exhibit about his life, but the descriptions were all in Danish. We decided to scrap our first stop and continue on to our second, the Carlsberg Brewery. In our planning, we figured we'd spend about an hour at the Planetarium and then walk to the brewery. We had not really thought all this out very carefully!
If you look at the map from the previous post, the brewery is located in a large green area called "Rektorparken." We figured is was Danish for "Place where no one wants you to go so they have made signs about how to get there really small and in odd places." It's remarkable how many English words fit into one Danish word!
Anyway, we walked and walked, and now it was sprinkling, and we walked some more. We must have asked of each other, "Do you think this is the entrance?" about a dozen times each! We ended up walking completely around the entire property of the brewery before we finally located the Visitor Center and place where you can do a tour. Unfortunately, the tours are self-guided and are of only the old brewery. The self-guided part was ok for us because everything was in Danish and English. Not sure how our Japanese friends would manage, but we did fine. The first thing you see on this tour is their collection of 15,000 different beer bottles from all over the world. They actually possess 19,580 bottles, but only 15,000 are on display. It was pretty impressive! We then did the rest of the tour, which is more about the history of the brewery than about how beer is made. We both thought the tour was very interesting and the displays were easy to understand.
One very bizarre thing to mention. Just ahead of us was a group of about 20 students, presumably from a local school. Ivan agrees with me that the average age of these kids was 6 (six), as in first graders! I was astonished that kids this young would be touring a brewery! I can't believe that any of them was interested in anything relating to the history of the brewery OR to beer! They were very good, though, not yelling or running around.
Once our tour was done, we had lunch in the brewery café where we also enjoyed our 2 free beers which were not really free, but came with the price of the tour ticket!
When we left it was finally raining so we decided to take the train back to the main station which, you may remember, is across the street from our hotel! Problem is we couldn't make the ticket thing work, so we decided to skip the train and walk. We managed to find a shortcut and the rain lasted only a brief time, so the walk back was quiet and interesting. We liked walking through a part of Copenhagen that is probably not seen by many visitors.
I'm going to post a couple of photos with captions and then will write a post about transportation in Copenhagen that I think you'll find interesting.
If you look at the map from the previous post, the brewery is located in a large green area called "Rektorparken." We figured is was Danish for "Place where no one wants you to go so they have made signs about how to get there really small and in odd places." It's remarkable how many English words fit into one Danish word!
Anyway, we walked and walked, and now it was sprinkling, and we walked some more. We must have asked of each other, "Do you think this is the entrance?" about a dozen times each! We ended up walking completely around the entire property of the brewery before we finally located the Visitor Center and place where you can do a tour. Unfortunately, the tours are self-guided and are of only the old brewery. The self-guided part was ok for us because everything was in Danish and English. Not sure how our Japanese friends would manage, but we did fine. The first thing you see on this tour is their collection of 15,000 different beer bottles from all over the world. They actually possess 19,580 bottles, but only 15,000 are on display. It was pretty impressive! We then did the rest of the tour, which is more about the history of the brewery than about how beer is made. We both thought the tour was very interesting and the displays were easy to understand.
One very bizarre thing to mention. Just ahead of us was a group of about 20 students, presumably from a local school. Ivan agrees with me that the average age of these kids was 6 (six), as in first graders! I was astonished that kids this young would be touring a brewery! I can't believe that any of them was interested in anything relating to the history of the brewery OR to beer! They were very good, though, not yelling or running around.
Once our tour was done, we had lunch in the brewery café where we also enjoyed our 2 free beers which were not really free, but came with the price of the tour ticket!
When we left it was finally raining so we decided to take the train back to the main station which, you may remember, is across the street from our hotel! Problem is we couldn't make the ticket thing work, so we decided to skip the train and walk. We managed to find a shortcut and the rain lasted only a brief time, so the walk back was quiet and interesting. We liked walking through a part of Copenhagen that is probably not seen by many visitors.
I'm going to post a couple of photos with captions and then will write a post about transportation in Copenhagen that I think you'll find interesting.
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| Old Carlsberg Brewery |
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| New Carlsberg Brewery |
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| Happy beer drinkers |
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