Charlottenlund

Charlottenlund is about a twenty minute (for me) bike ride from our place. To take advantage of the great summer weather we’ve been having, Hugo requested a trip to the beach so we rode up and spent some time playing on the beach.

Oslo, Norway.

Last week, in addition to Whit Monday, we also had a public holiday on Friday for Grundlovsdag (Constitution Day … although every time I saw it written, I thought it was Groundhog Day). It was also Father’s Day AND the last public holiday for the year so we decided to use it wisely and caught an overnight ship to Oslo, to expose our children to a wide range of cultural experiences like Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” (there seem to be several version of this picture, which is fortunate, as it keeps getting stolen); the Vigeland Sculpture Park (see photos here) … and the ball pit on the ship.

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Dyrehavsbakken

(Deer Park Hill) Referred to as ‘Bakken’ (The Hill) is the world’s oldest operating amusement park. It is in Klampenborg (about a 35 minute bike ride, or 25 minutes on the bus. We should have ridden!). Hugo is something of an amusement park connoisseur so we decided to head out to Bakken on this fine, sunny public holiday Monday, along with much of the population of Copenhagen.

We did have a short walk around the deer park, but didn’t see any deer. The most exciting part of the day for Hugo was finding a ride almost the same as the Panda ride at Tivoli. The most exciting part for me was that we ate a meal, in an actual restaurant, as a family, without (too much) chaos. YAY! It was fun, but probably not quite equal to Tivoli (Frommer’s calls it “Tivoli on a bad hair day”). Hugo ate the most enormous fairy floss I’ve seen on one stick. I honestly expected him to be ill afterwards but once again, his capacity for non-nutritious food exceeded my expectations.