Tivoli Gardens

Next we took the train to Copenhagen. Part of the time the train was on a ferry. They put the whole train cars on the ferry.

Train cars on the ferry

Danish seagull

Wake of the ferry

Denmark ferry - seen from our train at the dock

I remember Copenhagen for the

Little Mermaid

. I also remember the Danish breakfasts. We had a guide in Copenhagen who was very humorless

Guide in Copenhagen - very stern

We stayed at the Terminus Hotel. When it was built in 1918, the Hotel was the most modern in Copenhagen - all the rooms had a telephone and bathroom. The beds were feather beds - you slept under a feather comforter or quilt with no sheets. The feather part was inside a kind of pillowcase which was changed like a sheet would be changed.

Our beds in Copenhagen at Hotel Terminus

It was right next to the railroad station (it still is) and across the street diagonally from Tivoli. It was bought by Wagons-Lits (the railroad people) in 1968 (after we stayed there) and the name was changed to the Plaza Hotel in 1970. It is now the Copenhagen Plaza. We took a little motor boat through the canals of the city. We shopped at the Kunstindustrimuseet where I bought a charm bracelet with carved ivory animals with the money my grandmother had given me to get something for myself.

weather forecaster

King's Guard

Fredericksburg Castle

I particularly remember going to Tivoli. The Tivoli Gardens were a famous amusement park in the center of town. You could go there and eat, dance or ride a ferris wheel. I remember a ride where you went into a 'mountain', kind of a pre-Disney Matterhorn ride. We met up with local girl guides/scouts,

Scouts in Copenhagen

and while we were at Tivoli, and airplane dropped flyers which announced the beginning of the 'police action' in Korea. In Danish of course. The English of the Danish guides wasn't up to translating 'police action', so all we knew was that Truman had done something in Korea.