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a healing tonic.
Eventually, the boat returned to the inner city and
made a loop around Slotsholmen (The Castle Islet),
which features many museums, the stock exchange,
churches, and a huge castle complex that houses the
Danish Parliament.
“Be careful! Sit down in back! No standing!” our
guide warned again as we neared Storm Broen, a
bridge so low that somebody had reached up and
stuck a red sticker on the tongue of a carved head
decorating the center stone.
Getting though Storm Broen was like threading a
nautical needle. We motored at the speed of a slow
walk and we could see that both sides of the canal
had been scraped many times by passing craft.
The tour took about an hour and returned us to
Nyhavn dock where we asked our guide for a lesson
in Danish. “ ‘Tak‘ means thanks,” said our guide, “and
‘mange tak’ means thanks a lot.”
Once we left the Nyhavn canal, -- next to Miss Mer-
maid, Nyhavn’s multi-colored, 17th Century buildings
are probably Copenhagen’s most photographed site
-- we strolled the city’s pedestrian-friendly streets for a
couple of hours. By 1:00 we needed in a snack. What
else but a Danish!
But after we tried a half dozen cafés, bakeries and
restaurants without luck, we settled for coffee and
“Chokoladekugle” – basically a “chocolate ball” – at a
café called Coffee Industry, a kind of local Starbucks.

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