SUNSITE

After spending 5 days in Copenhagen I have finally found something I really like about the city, besides the fact that they are big on riding bikes. Den Botanisk Have, or the Botanical Gardens are an absolute paradise of a place. The park is quite spacious and every inch of it has been immaculately landscaped over centuries of botanical cultivation in the area. Some of the trees are hundreds of years old and very big. The park is really serene and soothing. As I stood on the bridge over the pond there and stared absent mindedly into the water I thought I recognised a familiar shape just under the surface. The mind first registered it as an old stump of a tree but as I keps staring the tree reminded me of a turtle. It was only after staring at the thing for a few minutes that I finally saw the head and it was a trutle about half a meter in size. The turtle, like most of the animals in the park was quite relaxed and easy. She paddled about around the bridge for a long time and hardly ever went under the water. The local ducks are the same. If you sit down they will come to you expecting a bite, no correction, demanding a bite of what ever you may or may not have. With some birds that are used to human feeding you can fool them by giving a hand motion indicationg that you are throwing something like food and they will get all excited untill they realise you were teasing them. Not these ducks, they are more clever than that. They dont even flinch and probbably find it quite insulting that you would thing they will fall for such a simple trick. They look at you accusingly saying “common stop beeing so childish, I allready knew about that one when I was still just an egg!” A stroll through the botanical gardens is a very relaxing experience. Good on ya Copenhagen for that one!