Alt er lukket om mandagen

"Everything is closed on Mondays"

Since I had a holiday this past week, my friend Claudia and I decided to take a daytrip to Odense - the third biggest city in Denmark. We went on Sunday March 28 in the evening, spent the night and planned what we would do the next day. On Monday morning we got up and went into the city, ready to see several museums and Hans Christian Andersens house!

We started with HC Andersens home. There was a portion open for children to play games in, but we were told that his actual home was closed every Monday. So we walked around and peered into the window where he was born.

It's closed =(

Next we walked down by the canal and onto a little island that was supposed to have art hanging from the trees. This is what we found:

Really some magnificent art work, don't you think?

We found some interesting statues that we took pictures with, and then walked along the main walking/shopping street. The whole city was so empty, but the shopping street was rather full because all of the shops were open. We enjoyed huge sandwiches for lunch and looked at our free map/guide pamphlet. We decided after lunch we would go to the City Hall because the guide said that there was art exhibits all throughout it that had become a permanent fixture and a bit of a tourist attraction! We found about 5 pieces of art after searching through all 4 floors of City Hall.

Statues we found in the city

I'm a part of the art!!

We found a cheap Mexican restaurant that offered chocolate cake and coffee for only 29kr (about $6CAD) so we enjoyed another break there and then went to the train station and went home.

Despite everything in Odense being closed on Mondays, we still had a lot of fun! We took plenty of jumping pictures (on automatic timer it isn't too easy), and were able to relax and go on a self-guided tour of the City Hall, which I'm sure not many tourists do!