Copenhagen, Day 2 (14th of June 07)

Up a little later than we expected, but still in plenty of time to shower, breakfast and be out by 9. I had been out a little earlier to buy the train tickets for Odense, to make sure we got seats booked, so that we didn't end up in the doorway like last year.
We went first to the information place to see what was happening, and Suzanne suggested a combo ticket that gave us 2 days of being able to hop on and off the tour buses and boats. The plan was to go round the 'red' tour to the mermaid and back first, see what we wanted to look at more closely, then go round again and hop away. When we got to the Mermaid though, we missed the same bus back into town, but as luck would have it, a boat arrived just as we were preparing to sit and wait. We just went one stop to the Amaliehavn where we enjoyed walking round the little garden. We waited for a red bus which took us to Nyhavn, and having caught the hop on and off bug, jumped on a different boat for the full duration. Lovely waterways and a different way to see the city, but beware low bridges! Even our guide was ducking, so we knew it was serious. There was a 73 point turn at one point where the canal was a bit of a squeeze for the boat. It obviously wasn't the first time they'd needed to perform such a maneuver either as there were some handy tyres and guards in place. Suzanne also seemed to be starting a bit of a wildlife sanctuary with 3 spiders and a ladybird making an appearance on us ad different times on the journey.
Back in Nyhavn we decided on lunch at one off the water-side bistros and found one that looked the very job, with bottles of water on the table and a menu that featured something other than seafood. It was a bit pricey, but very nice indeed with what tasted like a freshly made burger rather than mass produced nonsense. The water it turned out cost us and a pint was the dearest so far at 50DKK (just shy of a fiver). During lunch we realised how close we had came to visiting Geffion when we had been at the mermaid, so we jumped back on a boat where we thought we could walk down to the statue. As it happened, a bus (that stopped at the statue) was about to leave, so one stop later we were there.
We took many photos and had some ice-cream there. We also saw a couple of herons fishing, and one catching its prey.
Eventually a bus arrived and took us back to Nyhavn where a different tour boat was about to set off. Waiter service to the boat from the bar produced the cheapest beer so far at 'only' 40DKK. This time, we noticed a sign about an underwater statue at one of the bridges, so we made a note to try to spot it on our next time passing. Walking back to the hotel happened to take us that way, but the water was too cloudy and the sun too shiny to see anything. A few tourist type shops on the way back to the hotel, to arrive about 8pm to have a nice quiet evening after out 11 hour, tourist-tastic day.