Friday - Train to Copenhagen

Friday, May 8, 2009. Okay, it is our last morning, our last breakfast in the Grand Hotel. We have enjoyed the high-life breakfasting and cocktail-houring in The Grand with it's great view of the exceptionally beautiful city of Stockholm.

Now we are on a smooth fast train for a five-hour first-class cabin ride to Copenhagen.  For lunch, we spread a provençal-french table cover and spread it with breads, cheese, fruits, nuts, cucumber slices and chocolates....nice picnic....eaten while the train whizzed by large fields of daffodils.

Zip-zip-zip.....we are now in Copenhagen at the Palace Hotel. We had high hopes based on the great old (1908) facade of the building, but the interior has been stripped of every detail and made sleek like a W Hotel. We are directly across the street from the Tivoli Gardens where we see thrill seekers spinning in chairs on cables about 150 feet in the air. Too scary for me.

Roland's fine viola was made in the mid-1800's in Copenhagen. A shop around the corner did work on the viola. We are going to visit it.  

But first, we are going out now to eat and explore.  More later......