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.