The largest carillon in Northern Europe is at Our Savior’s Church in Copenhagen. So is one of the windiest towers to climb. Depending on the weather, it’s also the windiest. It’s 400 stairs to the top, with 150 being outside in the wind. It goes counterclockwise around the spire, leaving you dizzy and confused at the top. They closed it right before we went up because it had rained and the treacherous, narrow little steps are especially slick when wet. But since we were there, he said we could go on up, it would be fine. Daniel is still recovering from 17 stitches in his leg, but the views are supposed to be great up there and we never turn down a good tower climb, so up we went.
There’s also a little mermaid statue in Copenhagen that’s quite famous. It was crowded when we saw it and a bus full of Chinese tourists unloaded right as we left. Dinah commented, “I didn’t know they had a Chinatown here.” She doesn’t usually see a bus full of Chinese people and she’s never been to Chinatown, so I’m not sure what to do with this observation. The genetically modified little mermaid statue is way better and just down the road, and no one is falling over their selfie sticks to see it.
We also never turn down a good scam, so we bought tickets to the Guinness Book of World Records Museum. You’d expect to see really fat people, really tall people, and disgustingly long finger nails. You'd be right.
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| The long and winding stairs |
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| Wet stairs that could be a slide |
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| A not so appealing photo of a famous place (note, selfie stick in photo, duck lips came immediately following) |
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An appealing photo of a not-so-famous place
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| His record is safe in spite of the best efforts of Gasoline Grill |
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| Proof these stick figure drawings are based on reality |
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