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Copenhagen
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Copenhagen August 31
We allowed all those passengers permanently disembarking time to get off and had
a leisurely breakfast, before getting off ourselves. We got on the "Step On,
Step Off" bus tour instead of the "Hop On, Hop Off" one. This was a mistake as
it is a new company with only 2 buses, so it stopped often for a long time to
try and drum up new customers, but at least we got an idea of what was in the
city. Daryl had been there when she was 18, but really had no memory of it, and
Rob had never been. We saw Tivoli, the world's oldest amusement park, from the
outside, but did not pay to go in. Daryl had lost her glasses on the roller
coaster when she was 18 and that is abut all she remembers.
We got off the bus at Nyhavn, which is a refurbished area of what were originally sailors dwellings and are now restaurants and cafes overlooking a canal lined with wooden boats. We walked around for a while and looked at the new Opera House; the new Royal Theatre (both very modern); a sand sculpture exhibit (pretty impressive!); the Amelionborg Palace (the actual residence of the Danish royal family in the middle of the city); and tried to find a clock museum that we had seen on the map they gave us on the ship. We are now able to tell you that it does not exist and may never have.
We went back to the canal area and had lunch outside (Danish meatballs, plaice fillet and a good bottle of white wine.) We saw several of the passengers from the ship, including the couple from Kansas City who were staying a few nights in Copenhagen before heading back, and some who were going on with us. We also saw a group of very drunk students dressed in versions of Viking wear and carrying large open cans of beer while they jousted with fake swords and sang loudly. After a long wait, we hopped on the bus and headed back to the port where we breezed through security with our already issued cards and boarded just in time to go through the life jacket drill again. It is required on each cruise before you leave port on Oceania. Since the Costa incident, they want to make sure everyone knows where to go and how to behave.
We started the specialty restaurant rotation again and dined at Jacques with our favorite guy, Norman. Since the maitre d' from the previous cruise, Sebastien, had got off for his two month break, we talked to Mathieu, who was the original maitre d' when they opened Marina last year, and who is now assistant restaurant manager and he told us he was going to try Marek, from Poland, in the role. Slava's husband, Anton, had been reassigned from Jacques so we had a new sommelier, June from the Philippines to get used to. We had a good meal and knew we had a relaxing night ahead in our already familiar suite.
