Royal Botanical Garden, Copenhagen
DrFumblefinger likes visiting urban gardens. The Royal Botanical Garden in Copenhagen is a peaceful and beautiful spot and worthy of a visit.
DrFumblefinger likes visiting urban gardens. The Royal Botanical Garden in Copenhagen is a peaceful and beautiful spot and worthy of a visit.
A free fare program for pedestrians, bikers and people with disabilities is now open for more days and a longer season
Banned from zoos and circuses, Denmark's elephants have an island retirement home.
DrFumblefinger enjoys Copenhagen's harbor area on a pleasant fall day, as did thousands of the city's residents
DrFumblefinger is a fan of Danish hot chocolate and pastries.
Denmark's parliament has given final approval to a fifty-year project to build a new one-square-mile island at the entrance of Copenhagen's harbor with the intent of both providing new housing and, primarily, protecting the harbor from future storm surges. To be called Lynetteholm, the bulk of the island's foundation is to be in place by 2035, with completion by 2070. The plans include a dam system around its perimeter and a new neighborhood with metro stations. But that construction may yet...
PHeymont finds that there's a lot more to Solvang than its quaint 'Danish' facades—including the story of how it got that way.
DrFumblefinger visits the very pleasant Royal Library Garden in old Copenhagen on a lovely fall afternoon.
Gumbo was visiting the Roskilde Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage site about a half hour's ride west of Copenhagen. The Cathedral was among the oldest to be built of bricks and is the final resting place for dozens of Denmark's monarchs.
DrFumblefinger visits the "Marble Church" in Frederiksstaden. It's best known for its dome and rounded architecture.
A long-planned road and rail connection under the Fehmarn Strait to link Germany and Denmark gets a court OK.
Copenhagen reacts to the usual complaint of cities about the popular scooters: too fast, too many, too dangerous.
DrFumblefinger visits the Protestant Reformation Memorial in Copenhagen, commemorating the 400th anniversary of Denmark's move from Catholicism to the teaching of Martin Luther.
DrFumblefinger enjoys the historic 17th century storefront of the Royal Copenhagen shop in central Copenhagen.
DrFumblefinger makes a stop outside the main building of the University of Copenhagen, where busts of the more famous professors are displayed.