Today is May 26, 2025 and it’s the birthday of King Frederik X, the King of Denmark. Prior to this trip I didn’t know we would be in Copenhagen on his birthday. Actually before this trip I didn’t know that Denmark had a king let alone, who he was or that today is his birthday. Apparently he is a very emotional guy. We saw a video of when he was being introduced as the King following the abdication of his mother Queen Margrethe II. In the video you can see he gets teary eyed. Obviously my kind of guy.
Patrice here: For those of you who don’t know Robert, he cries at Disney movies. All you have to do is have him watch Kevin Costner’s character in Field of Dreams playing catch with his dad, and Robert will lose it. You don’t even need to include the dialogue.
Enough about the King. After breakfast this morning we had some free time to do some more sightseeing then it was off to the airport for our flight to Oslo. Everything went smoothly at the airport once I realized that I was trying to use my boarding pass for my flight to Stockholm rather than the one for today’s flight. How embarrassing. But at least I gave the security guard a good story to share with his wife when he gets home.
We had a quick bite to eat at the airport. It was surprisingly good and looked very appealing. See what you think? See below.
The flight to Oslo was short and sweet. Our bags were driven to Oslo early this morning so we didn’t need to wait for them at the airport and they were in our room when we arrived. Nice going Tauck
The hotel looks fantastic. Well if you think Murano Glass chandeliers are nice (I DO!). Check it out.
We then had a brief walking tour of the downtown area. For some reason I really liked this tour. Our guide told us some very interesting information rather than filling us with details that I didn’t care about. One thing she told us that was both interesting and sad was they have these very large planters on the city’s main walkway. The reason for the planters is only partly for decoration. The main reason they are there is to prevent some nut driving into the many people who walk there.
We saw a bunch of other things of interest. Here are some.
Wouldn’t you have loved to have been in on that discussion? “So what should we give Norway to honor their 100th anniversary of independence?” “Well we gave the USA the Statue of Liberty.” “Yes, but we were a little late on that (given 1886) so had to make it special, we don’t have to go that big.” “What do you say about giving them some Red, White, and Blue toilets? And let’s make them pay toilets so they can make a few bucks.” “Great idea, let’s make sure we are on time with this one”
Sorry, but can I add just one more photo?
After the tour, we then went to dinner at the hotel restaurant. They were not very busy but they took forever to get us our food. Our meal was spectacular but I think their strategy was to take so long to bring us the food we would think a Big Mac was fine dining. It took about 90 minutes to bring out the main course. Is that acceptable? Our 7 pm meal didn’t finish until 10 pm. Don’t these people realize I have a blog to write?
Tomorrow is our main day of touring Oslo. Good news, they were wrong when they predicted 100% chance of rain tomorrow. The most recent forecast states the chance for rain tomorrow is only 95%.
Hopefully we will have good news for you tomorrow.
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