I hope everyne appreciates the effort I'm going to to keep this up to date as I'm on the "Norwegian Jewel" and they charge an arm and a leg per nanosecond for the slowest service possible! So I'm typing really fast while I still have my hands.
First stop on this Cruise is Danmark - which we spell Denmark. I'm not sure why we are so stubborn about this little vowel because they call their country Danmark and we call the people Danes and the pastries Danish! First stop in Copenhagen was of course The Little Mermaid. The guide told us that the sculptorer modelled the statue's head on a famous Danish ballet dancer but she was too shy to model the rest so he used his wife's body for the rest of the statue.Lucky he had a mermaid for a wife, I reckon. I was the only one who found this funny - but then the ship is full of Americans and they don't laugh at the same stuff as I do. (And they keep calling me "Ma'am". I feel like the queen mother).
We then did a bit of a tour around to see the Royal Palace and it was here that the guide (who did actually say sculptorer) asked if there were any Australians on the tour. Only me. So she thanked me personally for letting them have Princess Mary. I said it was my pleasure.
Photo stops followed at all the other tourist sights and Copenhagen was, of course, "wonderful, wonderful". Very pretty city. We finished at an Ice Bar - where the whole bar is constructed of ice (from Sweden, for some reason!) and we had to dress in fur-line ponchos and mittens. Everything in it was ice including the tables and chairs and the glasses that we drank from. We all took photos of each other in our trendy gear and looking through holes in the ice and so on.
