Last night, we have discovered that there is a free walking tour in Copenhagen,so today we had some breakfast at the hotel and walked to the meeting place of the tour in front of the city hall. The tour guide was a really cool and knowledgeable guy, who showed us all the important landmarks in the city, talked about history of Copenhagen and Denmark, about the fires that gave the city its current shape, about the royal family and lots of other interesting things. On the tour we visited the current city hall, old city hall, old royal palace, Hotel D'Angleterre (which served as Nazi headquarters during the WW II), Nyhavn, the current royal residence (Amalienborg) and the Marble Church (a.k.a. Frederik's Church, a.k.a. Marmorkirken). the tour lasted 3 hours, and it was really informative and interesting!
After the tour we walked to Rosenborg Castle surrounded by a lush garden filled with sunbathing Danes. While touring the castle we a saw a bunch of things that you expect to see in a castle (like old furniture, tapestries, dishes, portraits and stuff) and also a bunch of unusual things such as a room with a mirror on the floor that the king allegedly used to peek under hoop skirts, a lathe used by a queen (that's an interesting hobby for a royal %) ), a pair of earrings made out of pieces of shrapnel that hit a kind in the face (he lost an eye, but survived, tough old dude) and a "funny" chair that made a farting sound when someone sat in it, then captured the victim with metal rods, sprinkled water on his/her pants and shoes while making pissing sounds... There was also an interesting exhibition of crown jewels, featuring a magnificent crown of King Christian IV (a.k.a. C4).
Then we walked to see the famous statue of Little Mermaid, which is rather small, but still pretty and sad. She is surrounded by tourist from both land and water.
Finally, we walked to a curious neighbourhood called Christiania, which is some sort of a hippie/anarchist/pothead commune, where they live somewhat free from the laws of society, growing cannabis, playing music and selling crap to tourists. I would guess that most people we saw in there (apart from the vendors) were tourists enjoying their joints, but there were some colourful locals as well.
After all that walking and excitement we came back to the hotel pretty exhausted, had some tea and went to sleep.