Aviation Tour - Maps on www.bankleft.com

At the kind invitation of Regnar who we met when he flew in for the day to Samso, we headed to the big smoke of Copenhagen. The day of our arrival was his son Storm's first birthday so we partook in traditional Danish birthday fare of boller (buns), cake and chocolate milk. Storm is a mellow chap, used to his older sister squawking. When Storm sleeps in the day, he goes in the car port in his pram. This is typical in Copenhagen - babies are usually left on the street in their pram outside shops. Cinemas have day time mother sessions where all the babies are left in the foyer for the box office staff to look after.



Regnar and his wife Eva have just finished rebuilding their house to include a great 1st storey deck terrace and a neat loft conversion with first rate detailing, insulation and heat recovery mechanical ventilation. Impressive stuff. Regnar's dad is an Engineer and helped with working out the construction detail and assembly.

In particular, we decided to investigate two things that we knew about Copenhagen before we arrived, Design and 'our' Mary. The Mary situation is that the royal family have just refurbished their residential buildings. In typical Danish fashion, they opened the building for public viewing for a few months first and it was so popular that parts of it need re-refurbishing before they move in.

This is the Royal residence;








This HAS to be the best city for cycling on the planet. Surely. I've never been in a peak hour mass of bikes on a purpose built bike section of the road like this before.






Over Copenhagen at 1500 feet we went. Not having ever guessed (on the basis of Lonodn experience) that it would be possible unless Regnar had told me, I asked the controlled if we could make a pass directly over their airport. 10 minutes later, between Jumbo Jet movement, he invited us across Kastrup "not below 300 feet please". Don't mind if we do! 737s continued to taxi underneath us. Funniest of all, once we have buzzed them, the quickest way that I could think of to get out of their way and stay clear of the approach and departure routes was to ask "request 180 and backtrack" which was again, in typical good humour, granted. Yeah!






Maersk (shipping) is the main man in town and has recently donated this Opera house to the city - no one that we spoke to likes it;