Travelrific® Travel Journal
A blog for travel enthusiasts. Listen to our podcasts at Travelrific® Radio, and visit our Wanderful Places® Travel Shop!Archive for denmark
The Best Restaurant in the World
By Linda Tancs
The folks at Restaurant magazine voted Copenhagen’s Noma the best restaurant in the world. Now you might be envisioning wine-infused sauces or layers of thinly shaved beef or fish decorated with a variety of green leaves and truffle emulsions. Well, that’s hardly the case. In fact, Noma’s website will inform you that they’re not about olive oil, foie gras, sun-dried tomatoes and black olives. Instead, they bring the Nordic regions to your palate with fare like Icelandic skyr curd, halibut, and Greenland musk ox. Pure and simple.
The Treasures of Tivoli
By Linda Tancs
Today marks the 168th opening of Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens. Although it’s more than just a garden (consider the bone chilling Demon roller coaster or its stately wooden counterpart built in 1914), the hallmark of this respite in the dead center of the city is its 15 gardens. Among the Chinese and Japanese inspired gardens are 80,000 tulip bulbs to usher in the season. The tulips border Tivoli Lake, the end of which presents the Parterre, a beloved garden with a view of the town clock. All the better to remind you of the time you’ve likely spent getting lost in its charms.
DISCLOSURE OF NO MATERIAL CONNECTION
The author has not received any compensation for writing this content and has no material connection to the brands, topics, products and/or services that are mentioned herein.
A Bridge to Somewhere
By Linda Tancs
In a decade or so there’ll be a shorter commute between Hamburg and Copenhagen. That’s when one of the most ambitious bridge-building efforts in Northern Europe–the Fehmarn Belt Bridge–is due to be completed. Linking the German island of Fehmarn with the Danish island of Lolland, the 12-mile long span in the Baltic Sea consisting of four road lanes and two rail tracks will reduce rail travel time between Hamburg and Copenhagen by about 1 hour. The Danes haven’t seen a project of this scope since the opening of the much-heralded Øresund Bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö. Despite some opposition, the latest connection should be just as popular.
If you enjoyed this post, please share it on sites such as StumbleUpon, vote for it, or bookmark it. Thanks for your support! Travelrific® was featured as Blog of the Day on NJ.com!
The Magic of Copenhagen
By Linda Tancs
In this week’s edition of Travelrific Travel Show, the topic is Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen is a large city but really has the feel of a village hamlet, much like the settings in stories told by its famous son, children’s storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. Learn more about this kid-friendly destination at www.travelrificradio.com.
