Japan Zoologisk Have

I spotted this postcard in the Copenhagen Zoo shop last Saturday and, well, how could I not buy it? I have no idea why this exists. I mean, I assume it is from an old poster for the zoo (much like London Zoo has) but just why exactly it has a samurai on it I do not know. I’m not sure there was anything particularly Japanese about the zoo and I can’t think of any specific animals they had that are native to Japan. But hey, cool postcard!

Copenhagen: Day 2 of 3

Day 2 of 3 (Saturday 28th March (my birthday), 2015):
In search of breakfast, Copenhagen Zoo, Frederiksberg park and palace, the Round Tower, Strøget shopping street and the Lego Shop.

Morning in Nyhavn

Breakfast of black coffee and rye bread at Baresso – a Danish coffee shop chain.

The Happy Wall (with my initials)

Zoo!

First animal at the zoo: flamingo

“Yep, that’s right. I’m in the zoo but I can fly outta here whenever I want”, said the Heron.

We are all primates.

Auditions for the latest Guinness advert

The red panda was very sleepy.

The tigers were particularly impressive (or tiger, non-plural, in this case).

Delicious creamy tomato soup with rye bread crisp, plus an equally tasty rhubarb lemonade.

Every time I have been to a zoo in the last 10 years – which is a good 4 or 5 times, including today – the wolves have always been hiding. Today was the same, although ironically we did glimpse one, through a wire fence, from outside of the zoo – as their enclosure borders the main park that the zoo sits inside. So, here is a wolf sign and some paw prints instead.

I found a wolf in the zoo shop. Steve bought one for me, as it was my birthday afterall, although mine is a bit smaller than this fella.

Frederiksberg palace – a typically yellow Danish building!

Frederiksberg park

I love this bridge.

There is fine architecture to be admired everywhere in Copenhagen.

The Round Tower

Fountain in the square on Strøget – the longest pedestrian street in the world.

The only LEGO shop in Denmark, funny because it’s a Danish company/product.

History of the LEGO logo

Just a small section of the Nyhavn buildings made from LEGO

See Day 1 here. And Day 3 here.

London Aquarium

Yesterday I went to London to see the new Godzilla film at the IMAX on the Southbank – my first IMAX experience and pretty good it was too. No comments on the film, I’ll just say that it was generally enjoyable but I still don’t see the point of 3D, whether on a massive IMAX screen or a standard cinema screen.

Prior to Godzilla however, I had a surprise visit to the London Aquarium, which is near the London Eye along the river Thames. I haven’t been to an aquarium since I was a kid – and even then I don’t remember which aquarium(s) I would have been to, somewhere on holiday I suppose. Needless to say, it was awesome!

I really, really want to go diving somewhere tropical now. I realise I probably should have learnt to dive when I lived next to the sea for three years in Cornwall. But I didn’t, I just swam in the sea a lot. I always fancied diving in the Great Barrier Reef one day – a distant dream. And hey, I achieved one of my dreams of going to Japan so why not this?