Today started out with about 2 hours worth of driving to the south. We went on another island but for the life of me I am not sure what the name was. The island that Copenhagen resides on is called Zealand. The island we went to is very small and to the south. There are some chalk cliffs along the east coast of the island called the White Cliffs of Moen. I think I am supposed to use an 0 with a line through it but don't have the symbol queued up. The cliffs are similar in idea and content to the Cliffs of Dover from what I can tell.
Again the weather turned out perfect as we had sun and something that felt akin to nothing more than the mid 70s all day. There were a couple points that we felt some humidity but as we walked the trails over the upper portion of the cliffs it was well shaded in the woods most of the time. We went a fair distance down the trail where we discovered stairs down to the beach level. There were definitely stairs from the beach level back at the point of the visitor center so decided to descend and walk the beach. The beach was a pleasant beach that mainly consisted of small rocks. What was disconcerting to me was that there was absolutely no sign of any sea life on the beach in the form of broken shells or any crabs or anything. Actually after a small bit we noticed that there weren't even any seagulls. I particularly found this disturbing but we assume there were no gulls because of the lack of shellfish. We finished the beach and climbed back up to the visitor center. Both sets of stairs were winding and had a lot of steps in them. The ones we descended were far steeper than the ones we climbed. The high point of the area is supposedly 130 meters so we have to assume that we climbed up and down somewhere in the 100 meter range.
At the visitor center we decided to just hit the cafeteria where we bought water and I had a small Carlsberg Special beer. We didn't stay long then we got back on the roads and drove to the main town just before we exited the small island where we found parking and then searched for a place for lunch. We found the Bryghus Mon which was a small local brewery that served lunch and dinner menus. We both ordered their burger which had carmelized onions, greens, tomatoes, bacon a special sauce and was served on a brown bread roll along with roasted new potatoes. The burgers were very good if cooked more than I like (which of course means actually cooked). I had the 6 beer sampler to try all of their various varieties. This amounted to about one full pint of beer I think. The pilsner and wheat beer were ok but what I finished off first. They had an American brown ale, an amber beer, a black beer and a regional beer that were all very good. There was definitely something like spice in the wheat beer. The black beer was not a stout but was interesting.
After finishing lunch we headed back to the car and drove off the island where we visited a small port area just on the Zealand side of the bridge. It has a nice docks area but there were very distressing signs of spider infestation. There was a Toyota Land Cruiser that at first we thought was muddy but was actually entirely webbed over. It proably hadn't moved in a long time. Walking around the rest of the area only revealed more of the same. Though we saw a gigantic spider in the town where we had lunch there were several dozen more visible spiders here. Either way there was a small shack we got ice cream from here. I had one based on a local candy bar called the Lion Bar. No idea what flavor it was but I liked it.
From there we drove back to the apartment where we relaxed for an hour and a half or so before heading into Copenhagen for dinner. Since the drive was long the late lunch and all that had us getting into town at about 8pm or later. We walked around a small bit then when we found the first choice restaurant is closed on Sundays went to Ristorante Almalfi and had Italian instead. This was a very nice if not busy restaurant. I suspect the issue is the Danes really don't go out to eat a lot and less so on Sunday. We turned out to be the only customers. We split a bottle of Valpolocello and an antipasto before he had a lobster and pasta dish and I had a cheese ravioli dish. For dessert I had ice cream with espresso poured over the top and George had a creme brulee that really looked like a failed attempt. There was no crunch in the sugar and he said he could tell the loose granules still there. He didn't finish it. My ice cream was very good. We also both had a grappa and even a second when the waiter offered us one more on the house. It was actually a very good grappa that had been aged in a wooden cask. It was surprisingly good.
From there we just walked up to Nyhaven a looked about a moment or two before getting a taxi back to the apartment and calling it a night.
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