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A place to play in central Copenhagen

July 19, 2014August 20, 2014 BritMumInNZ 5 Comments Adventures, Playgrounds & Parks

We stumbled across a lovely playground in the centre of Copenhagen on a hot summer’s day. A paddling pool invited the children to splash around and cool down. Ride-on bikes lay about for children to freely play on. A welcoming hut had toys outside, akin to a pre-school, but all the toys were for passing children […]

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Tivoli Gardens Copenhagen – Mr Disney’s Inspiration

July 18, 2014August 20, 2014 BritMumInNZ 3 Comments Adventures, Holidays, Playgrounds & Parks

After living in California for a year and being very fortunate to have visited Disneyland, it was wonderful to visit Tivoli gardens – the place that first inspired Walt Disney to set about creating Disneyland.   From the moment we walked into the gardens and amusement park it was very clear to see how Mr […]

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Scenes from the bus in Copenhagen

July 16, 2014August 20, 2014 BritMumInNZ 4 Comments Adventures, Holidays

I took my three daughters on the ‘Hop-On Hop-Off Copenhagen‘ bus tour (though we didn’t do much hopping; as the children were very happy on the open air top-deck of the double decker bus). If I wasn’t managing three children of different interests, ages and sensitivities, I would have spent all day hopping on and […]

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Arriving in Copenhagen

July 9, 2014February 18, 2019 BritMumInNZ 2 Comments Adventures

Copenhagen Airport greeted us Sunday evening, as the sun was setting. It was a light and airy welcome, with barely a wait to clear customs and collect our baggage – just what we needed in our still jet-lagged state; after flying from LA, USA to London, UK, the day before! Our flight from Terminal 5, […]

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24 hours in England

July 7, 2014September 18, 2014 BritMumInNZ 4 Comments Adventures, Holidays

We touched down at London Heathrow early afternoon on Saturday. Our flight from Los Angeles went smoothly enough – after a delay boarding the plane due to a fatality on the incoming plane from New Zealand. Thankfully, we had access to the Air New Zealand lounge, which was so much more pleasant and peaceful than […]

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