One last delicious buffet breakfast at The Scandic and then we packed up and were on our way back to UK. It was a short visit to Copenhagen but an enjoyable one. Another country to add to the list!

Another great breakfast and we set off for our Panorama coach tour. Just five minutes away from the hotel, we were told, and the concierge had made a beautiful ring round X marks the spot on our map, but could we find it? No, and real panic set in as departure time approached and we had no idea where to go, and we had paid after all! By sheer luck we saw a coach in the distance and ran like crazy and threw ourselves on board at the very last minute. Not a good st...

A good sleep and a great buffet breakfast at the Scandic hotel. Helps to remember though that Denmark time is one hour ahead of UK so get up early if you want to leave plenty of time to eat! Outside the day was looking very grey and damp, but luckily not too cold as we set off to explore. We found the tourist information office a few minutes walk away from the hotel and armed ourselves with some useful leaflets. Just across the road was the famous Tivoli amuseme...

After a very late night (no complaints, we were at Wembley to see England beat Poland and secure their place at Brazil 2014!), our journey to Copenhagen seemed to be much harder work than it needed to be. This was not helped by getting soaked through from the driving rain at Heathrow as we parked the car in the long term car park, nor was it made any easier by the 45 minute delay which stretched into 2 hours before we eventually took off. On arrival in Copenhage...