Sunday, April 7, 2019

catching up, slowing down


We got a late start and thought we would take a different path through the city than we had the previous two days. You tend to stick to what you know when first in a city. We ended up going up a street of boutique shops that had fabulous items: ceramics,



Okay, beheaded bird or root vegetable?



fabrics,

I don't know if you can see, but it's size "amazing." Mary asked the owner what her size would be: "lovely."

etc. We didn’t know if we had it in us after the previous day's march, but we set our sights on going to two parks with lakes that Jackie had recommended we see, keeping our eyes peeled for a place Mary could get lunch. We didn’t find any likely places, so we kept wandering, and when we finally stopped to ask someone where we were, we had passed the parks we wanted to go to. So we headed to those through Rosenborg Slot, a castle and gardens.

The gardens were filled with people out enjoying a Saturday stroll in the nice weather.

A woman at our hotel joked to Mary that Denmark gets about five days of sun a year, so we know these past three sun-filled days of 60-degree temperatures have been very lucky. We wandered back through a food market (Torvehallern) and had some fish and chips there. Through another park with a small lake and we were on our way home again. For such short days, we sure made the most of them. Only about 6 miles today, but a good five hours in the glorious weather.
In the food market, one seller had this sign. 


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