JON: Welcome to wonderful Copenhagen. On this

episode. we’ll explore this incredible city by canal, we’ll tour one of the most beautiful

castles in Europe, and we visit world renowned Tivoli Gardens. We’ll also discover a cafe

breaking all sorts of norms, specializing in Smushi. Stick around and find out, all

this and more on Next Stop Copenhagen. The fun starts now!

Next Stop rolls JON: We have toured cities all over the world

by bus, by car, by bike, by foot, never by canal...until today!

GUILIA: Hi to all and welcome, my name is Gulia, and I will be your guide for all this

tour. We are now in the canal of Nyhavn, and this canal was excavated between 1671 and

1673. The purpose was that the ships could sail all the way into the cities new center

where the Kings new square is, with their goods. You can now see the royal theaters

playhouse. The playhouse opened in 2008 with Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It was designed by

2 danish architects called Lundgaard and Tranberg. The opera house here on the right in 2005,

it was designed by a danish architect that is called Henning Larsen. Ship you see on

the right side is a royal yacht that is called Dannebrog.It was built in 1931 and it is the

oldest royal yacht in the whole world that is still in use today. You can now also see

two identical buildings on the right hand side, there are actually 4 of these buildings

and this is Amalienborg, Amalienborg is the royal residence since 1794. We are now in

Gammel Strand which means the old beach, it was here the modern city of Copenhagen was

founded in 1167 by the bishop Absalon. You can see a statue of him on the left hand side,

he is on his horse. On the right side you can now see the most modern castle of Christiansborg

it is the third castle with this name in this spot and it is from 1928. The building on

the right hand side is the old stock exchange, it was built between 1620 and 1640. The tower

is made of 4 intertwined dragon tails and on the top there is 3 crowns that symbolize

the Kalmar Union. We are now back to where we started, so the tour is over. Me and Jens

hope you enjoyed it, have a nice day and thank you for a nice tour.

JON: What are the highlights for you on the tour?

GUILIA: The royal residence and the canal of Christianborg which for me is breathtaking

and the oldest part of the cities. JON: Now we also sailed by the most popular

number one restaurant in the world, Noma. Have you been there?

GUILIA: No, I haven’t. There is a 3 month waiting list right now, and the top waiting

time was 1 year I think, in the beginning, now it is 3 months.

JON: I think we will dine right over there at the local polsevogn.

GUILIA: Yes, that is a great idea. JON: Thank you for your time today.

GUILIA: Yep, no problem hi hi.

JON: The changing of the guard takes place every day at noon at the royal palace. The

purpose of the royal guard is to protect Denmarks royalty, especially Queen Margaret the second,

the first female monarch in Denmark since the 15th century. This is sometimes accompanied

by music IF the Queen is residence, but if you take a look at that building over there,

the only one with 5 chimneys, there is no flag flying. No flag, no Queen. For more information

on this and other fun activities in Denmark, go to visit denmark.com

JON: Frederiksborg Slott, or castle, located

in Hillerod a town about 42 kilometers north of Copenhagen is the oldest renaissance in

Scandanavia, dating back to the early 17th century, it also houses the museum of natural

history. Hello Soren, I’m Jon. SOREN: Hello Jon, my name is Soren, welcome

to Frederiksborg. JON: Thank you for inviting us to your home.

SOREN: Oh you are welcome. JON: This is a nice place you live!

SOREN: Oh, it is a very nice place. JON: OK, you don’t live here.

SOREN: No, I don’t live here JON: Who did?

SOREN: Well in the 17th century the danish king lived here, his name was Christian the

Fourth, and he was one of the wealthiest persons in northern Europe, and when you are wealthy

you need of course a grand house. JON: I’m dying to see the inside.

SOREN: Well let’s go inside then. JON: Let’s do it.

JON: This is an absolutely gorgeous room. SOREN: It is one of the favorite spots in

the museum. It’s also the spot you can see the kind of decoration the old castle were

made with. It is again made to impress, it is what renaissance was about, you have to

be dazzled. JON: Let’s talk about the shields on the

wall, this is impressive,they must have deep meaning.

SOREN: It is going back to when Denmark was an absolute monarchy. Whenever a person gets

one of these shields he will have his coat of arms made and painted and had the shield

put on here. Well, you remember when I told you the danish king was very wealthy?

JON: Yes. SOREN: He was also very practical. So you

are now in the basement of the castle, it is his treasury. Instead of walking down the

stairs with his money he would slide the coins through the slide down into this large chest.

JON: Soren, this is one impressive display of art. How many pieces are here?

SOREN: Well we say we have approximately 10,000 paintings, but apart from paintings we have

engraving, we have etchings, we have furniture, we have chairs, we have cupboards.

JON: So earlier today Soren promised us he would show is where he had his wedding reception.

Wow, this is pretty cool Soren SOREN: It is, no wonder it’s called the

great room. JON: You didn’t have a wedding reception

here, but this is a great room. SOREN: It is, I wish I had, but it is a great

room and it was built by Christian the Fourth for having parties and functions.

JON: I can only imagine, you have a nice office, Thanks for having us.

SOREN: Thanks.

JON: Coming up, Denmarks knowledge center for design, and the historic Admiral Hotel.

JON: Danish design is well respected throughout

the world. To learn more, we visit the Danish Design Center. We begin our tour through history

of the danish design in the 1950’s. What was going on in the 1950’s?

NILLE: 1950 was just after the war, so there was not that much money, but there was a huge

power to create something so a lot of the things you see here was created at that time,

and the thing was, there were new materials. Lego is there, Lego started in 1952. Denmark

is a nation of play, we like to work hard but we also like to play, and lego is just

the thing where you can build. You are not supposed to do whatever you were told by your

parents, you can just dream away. JON: That is the great thing about legos,

and that hasn’t changed. NILLE: It is, it hasn’t changed. And you

see even adults playing with legos now, they put a lot of computers in them now so you

can do things like robots. JON: The psychedelic 60’s.

NILLE: It is, yes, what we call the hippy thing, the flower power of things, and what

happened was when we look at the 50’s it was all natural materials, so plastic was

introduced, and we had this fantastic designer called Verner Panton and he did this chair

and all these environments sort of psychedelic things and at the same time getting back to

your roots, he also had these television things that were a bit spacey, it was modern, they

were in my home when I was a kid. JON: really?

NILLE: Yeah. JON: Now we are in the 70’s when I was a

kid, I would have liked this thing. NILLE: Oh you should have one. The 70’s

were you know, like systems, and the 80’s was about systems, how we can get systems

to work. The whole idea wasn’t, it wasn’t just one thing, it was everything.

JON: A lot of that is still true today to though, because these are the same taps as

in our hotel room. NILLE: Yes. I have them at home, and I think

my kids will always have them at home. So they are here.

JON: If it ain’t broke, why fix it? So now we arrive at the 90’s.

NILLE: Yeah, but let’s skip the 90’s, we didn’t do much cool design in the 90’s,

let’s go to the next. JON: So now we are in the new millenium, and

I love this, that is super cool. NILLE: That is fantastic, it is a one of.

The lamp is telling you that now materials can do, and that technology is going into

design. JON: Nille, I am impressed, thank you very

much for the tour and your time, and I can see why danish architecture and danish design

has been so relevant for so many decades and for decades to come.

NILLE: Yeah, come back in 10 years and we will show you the next part.

JON: I’d love to. NILLE: See you. Thanks.

JON: Copenhagen is one of the most ambitious

cities of the world when it comes to sustainable lifestyle. By the year 2025 Copenhagen plans

to be the worlds first capital cities that is CO2 neutral. Bikes are just one of the

ways Copenhagen tries to stay green, they are by far the fastest and least expensive

way to get around, and of course they emit no CO2. Copenhagen is truly a green city.

JON: We are staying at the very lovely and

very historic Admiral Hotel in Copenhagen. Jesper, thanks for having us.

JESPER: Thank you, and your welcome. JON: This is a gorgeous property, and I love

the history of it. Take us back to 1787. JESPER: This used to be a storage place for

corn and grain. We have a lounge with part of our banqueting department that used to

be the oven, drying out most of the grainery. JON: So all the floors housed the grain and

corn? JESPER: Yeah, exactly, yeah.

JON: And there were very historic events that happened, that this hotel was very key in.

1801? What happened then? JESPER: We had the bombardment of Copenhagen,

but we survived, most of the buildings around the hotel were on fire, a big part of Copenhagen

history. JON: Your location is spectacular, right on

the water. JESPER: Of course with a hotel that’s it

location, everything is close by, the Queen is living right down the road.

JON: The Queen is your neighbor. JESPER: Yeah, yes she is., and of course we’ve

got the view of the water. JON: One think that is unique I think is the

hallway, when you walk down, the woodwork on the ceiling.

JESPER; All the hallways, and all the wood and the walls, that is the original thing

from when it was built. JON: And when you walk in your lobby, it is

very impressive, It is very long, there is lots of depth to it, and your staff is so

friendly, everybody has been so friendly the entire stay. And you have an award winning

restaurant. JESPER: We do, yeah, the Salt restaurant has

been with us for quite a few years now. JON: There is something you have that is very

different than any hotel we have ever stayed at.

JESPER: We do have the water, and together with the water, we do have the ships.

JON: As you can see, this is a very impressive property, with a history dating back to the

start of our country. On your next trip to Copenhagen, we recommend you stay at the Copenhagen

Admiral Hotel.

JON: Up next, we learning about smushi, and a unique bar hopping experience including

an ice bar.

JON; The food scene in Copenhagen is thriving, in fact, for the last 3 years running they

have the number 1 rated restaurant in the world. For our food feature today, we are

on the main walking street, the Stroll, to feature the Royal Cafe, which is anything

but your average cafe. Let’s Smushi. I have been so excited to learn about your concept,

not only about smushi, but cafe. You have taken it to a whole new level.

RUD: Our idea was to sort of emphasize everything that had been famous in the past, which was

smorrebrod, open face sandwiches. JON: Which is very well known in Denmark.

RUD: Yes, so we thought why not do it in a modern, more up to date way, not have huge

open face sandwiches, but maybe have small tasty...

JON: You can try more things that way. RUD: Yeah. You know, as you can see in front

of us we have 3 smushi standing here, this is the ox filet, beef filet, call it how you

like with a good old danish tomato. This is new potatoes, new cucumber, what we would

call a vegetarian dish, with a little radish. The next one here is actually very interesting,

it is called a danish shooting star, and the way it is made, it looks like a star.

JON: Now I feel like your cafe here, this room is beautiful, I feel like we are having

afternoon high tea. RUD: You can see something there, a hand painted

wall, or you can see one of these old paintings from the castle, why not give people that

experience? JON: This is the most unique cafe we’ve

ever been to and this is absolutely a wonderful presentation, congratulations.

RUD: Thank you, thank you very much. JON: That is so awesome, you are redefining

it. Good job. RUD: Thank you for coming.

JON: We hear that Copenhagen has one of the

most active nightlifes in Europe. Let’s find out for ourselves, we begin our night

at Icebar Copenhagen. It’s summertime in Copenhagen and we are in an ice bar. An actual

ice bar. Now, I thought that there might just be a little ice around, but we are talking

full on ice here Pablo. PABLO: Yeah, it is 40 tons of natural ice

brought up from northern Sweden. JON: So what is she making here behind us?

PABLO: It is called construction. Our thing is factories, so we have all the names of

our cocktail are related to those things. JON: So these glasses are all ice as well?

PABLO: Exactly. JON: They are special, what does it take to

keep these things in stock? PABLO: Well, we keep them in the bar.

JON: Because once I put my mouth to it, it starts melting, right?

PABLO: Exactly. Once you don’t drink in them, we have a slide, it’s there, where