Sunday morning after breakfast at our hotel we headed out to continue our explorations of the city. First stop was the 17th century Vor Frelser Kirke, a beautiful church with an incredible spiral tower, which apparently has amazing views as far as Sweden on a clear day - but is only open (along with the whole of Denmark it seemed), during the summer months. Still it was nice to admire from the outside.
After pausing to warm up with hot chocolate in a cafe (something we had to do a lot!) we made our way to the 'Freetown' of Christiania, a commune formed by a bunch of hippies and political activists in the 1970's. Apparently the community is home to over 600 people and is quite a tourist attraction, but there didn't seem to be much going on around the bunch of shabby run down ex-army buildings surrouded by all manner of junk and graffiti. Slightly put off by the smell of dope and the very spaced out looking people hanging around oil drum fires, we didn't stick around for long. The area around Christiana was more interesting, with lots of cute cafes and pastel painted houses lining the canals.
We had read that the best way to see Copenhagen was from the water, so a cruise was the order of the afternoon. Although the canals were partially frozen, boats were still able to travel along most of the waterways, cutting through the paths left by other vessels as they went. So we saw all the main sights from the heated cabin of the boat, including the harbour and the famous Little Mermaid statue.
After the cruise ended we decided to walk around the edge of the harbour for a closer look at the royal palaces and the mermaid statue, which is actually not very exciting at all, and was really not worth the extremeley icy walk. In need of thawing we hit yet another pub to recover afterwards.
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