We headed to Copenhagen for a couple of days, staying at a monster campground; what appears to be the mother temple of the Danish camping association. As big as it is, it was quite pleasant with the sites grouped into little clusters surrounded by hedges which gave a lot of privacy. And, it had a washing machine! We are finding laundry a much greater challenge on this trip, so any time we find a campsite with a laundry, we jump on it.

One of the reasons for choosing this site is that is is only about 15 minutes walk from a suburban train station.  We fumbled a bit the first time, it was hard to find the actual station, and then the ticket machine did not work, but we managed to get to the main station downtown in about 20 minutes.  

Our main purpose was to visit the National Museum and this took most of the day – it is a large museum.  (https://en.natmus.dk) It also has a lovely restaurant and, of course, we started our day with coffee before tacking the various floors.  It quickly became clear that it is more a museums for Danes to discover the world and less a museum to teach foreigners about Denmark. So we got a world tour and an overview of Danish history.

We enjoyed our visit and also our rather late lunch there, the traditional Danish open face sandwich again.

The following day was a Monday, which means most things are closed in Europe.  (Grrr!) We took the train again, helping some German tourists who were as bewildered as we were the first day, and started our day with a Hop On Hop Off Bus, which is a really good way of getting an orientation to a new place.  We included a canal/harbour boat cruise, which was most interesting, as it showed different aspects of the harbour. 

We ate lunch beside one of the canals and then headed to the Museum of Danish Resistance.

The Resistance museum is a high tech, underground museum which was most interesting as it portrayed the three reactions to the Nazi occupation – Resistance, Acceptance and Avoidance.  Like many museums we visited, it does not shy away from hard questions. (https://en.natmus.dk/museums-and-palaces/the-museum-of-danish-resistance/)

We then headed to the Little Mermaid to take her picture from the front.  The boat cruise had shown us her rear!