During our 20 min bus ride to the pier I saw lots of unique buildings and LOTS of bicycles everywhere!! Parked or with riders they swarmed the city.
The city bikes are world famous, a quick and a free alternative to getting around faster than by any other means of transportation. There are no mandatory bike helmet laws and the City provides public bicycles with your deposit refunded upon return. Denmark's 5.4 million citizens own 4.2 million bicycles and only 1.8 million cars.
We saw the windmills and learned that the government expects to turn 50% electricity consumptions into offshore wind power by 2030.
By the harbor sits the Little Mermaid statue from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. She is the sea king's daughter and is half woman and half fish. The story says she has to wait 300 yrs on her rock to enter the world of human beings. She was created in 1913 and is supposedly the most visited attraction in Denmark.
There is far more to the city online than I have posted here.
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