Back in Copenhagen for the final day of our vacation. It has been a great trip and I am sad to see it come to an end.

We were supposed to stop again in Sweden but the seas were too high to tender into the port. We had an excursion to go to the castle that Shakespeare used for the setting of Hamlet. We really had not visited any “castles” everything was more palaces in the other cities so I was a little disappointed but not too bad. It did save us a little money. We got back not only our excursion costs but also some port fees.

The schedule was to arrive in Copenhagen at 8:00 and head into town to see the Tivoli Gardens at night. Instead we got to Copenhagen by noon and toured the gardens in daylight.

We had spent an evening and morning in Copenhagen when the vacation just started but there were several sights we hadn’t seen including the gardens.

The cruise ship provided a free shuttle right to the gates of Tivoli Gardens so that is the first thing we did. It was a perfect day to tour the gardens and they were beautiful. It is said that Disney got his idea for Disney world at Tivoli Gardens and I could definitely see the similarities. The pictures don’t do it justices. The flowers again were everywhere and well displayed. It was a nice mix of beautiful quiet paths, restaurants and rides. The rides were well designed and fit into the atmosphere really well. They must really enjoy hanging upside down because most of the rides left the riders dangling way more than they should. I could have tried them out since I bought the wrong ticket and paid for unlimited rides instead of the cheap just walk through. Of course I didn’t discover this until I was back on the boat so no rides for me. There was a great carousel with a giraffe I would have loved to try out.

After the gardens we made our way back to the waterfront area through the shopping district. I was in hopes there would be some street vendors selling paintings or other handmade crafts. Sadly we didn’t ever come across any and the area was crazy busy. It was nothing like the quiet morning we had earlier. Then we basically had it all to ourselves. Today you could hardly walk down the sidewalk.

We came across a sailor’schurch on our walk. It seems to be a very popular type of church in the port cities we have visited. It has some great wood carvings and the doors were beautiful.

We checked out the amber museum store again but we didn’t find anything we couldn’t live without. I am really glad I bought in Germany it was much cheaper than any other I saw.

We continued our shopping quest but everything was more just normal shopping than what we were looking for. We did stumble on a poster store with stacks of vintage posters. Sadly no room on my walls for any additional posters. So after a regretful glance of all the great posters I had to leave behind we continued on our way.

We soon stumbled on the palace gardens which were more grassy fields than flower gardens. There was some crazy statutes with one nymph looking like she was peaking out of the bushes. It was one showing of a little humor that was otherwise missing in the very clean and streamlined city. The palace wasn’t what I was expecting it was more fortress manor house than palace. It was not at all opulent like what we saw in Saint Petersburg.

On our walk back to Tivoli to catch the shuttle we passed the “bike rack”. It was near the metro station but not sure if it was the subway or just that it was pretty much the center of the city that made this a great place to park a bike. Regardless there were more bikes than I have ever seen. I don’t even think I have seen this many bikes at a triathlon. I also don’t know how a person finds there bike. Occasionally you saw one in a bright color but for the most part they were all black with brown utilitarian baskets.

We made it back to the gardens and back to the ship. We had a great last day. I hated to see the trip come to an end but our flight was really early the next morning so it was time to wrap up our Baltic adventure.