My Baltic port guide part 3

After leaving Helsinki we had three fantastic more ports on our itinerary – Copenhagen, Oslo and Zeebrugge. I have been to Copenhagen twice on a cruise and also to Zeebrugge, but Oslo was new to both of us.

Getting off in Copenhagen seemed chaotic as people were rushing to go off on tours or the shuttle buses, and so we had to battle trying to get past everyone for our walk into Copenhagen – obviously the had made everyone want to get off the ship that day. P&O cruises were running a shuttle bus for those wanting to use it and this was a cost of £4 per person each way.

Ten minutes from where we were docked is where the Little Mermaid can be found, blink or be looking in the wrong direction and you will miss her – although it is obviously popular with the tour buses so a crowd of people might give the location away. Following the harbour brings you out to the Amaelienborg Palace where the changing of the guard happens at midday and is the winter home of the Royal Family. We continued to walk into town and came across the Nyhavn Canal which we walked down, before making our way down Stroget – which is Europe’s longest pedestrianized street and home to many high street shops, aswell as the lego shop which is definetly calling into, too see the fabulous enlarged lego figures. Reaching the end of Stroget you will find the Tivoli Gardens and also the statue of Hans Christian Anderson.

We found in Copenhagen despite the currency being the Danish Krona they were also happy to accept Euros.

Our next port was Oslo and we were joined by our friend who was the loyalty manager on board Azura.  P&O were not running shuttle buses here as was within walking distance, however you could get on one of the hop on hop buses or the land train.

We decided to make our way to the fortress first and so followed our map, none of the buildings here were open so we walked round and found a different exit to where we went in, which only brought us out right by the ship so we were back to where we started. We were very fortunate for the weather is Oslo and was one of their hottest days at 24 degrees. We found the building where the nobel peace prizes are given out, before making our way to the ice bar in Oslo, which was a great way to cool down from the sun, although our free drink was extremely potent.

After cooling down we then found the main shopping street before heading back to the ship.

Our last port was Zeebrugge which is the pot for Bruges and this time we decided to see what the town of Blankenberg had to offer. The shuttle bus drops you in town and then its walking distance. We were again lucky with the weather so we decided to head to the sea front (where there is a great beach) and had Belgian hot chocolate and waffles.

This has to be one of our best cruise adventures to date and would certainly do this itinerary in the future. I would highly recommend a Baltic cruise, so if you are considering taking one then please give me a call to help you plan your next adventure.

Kerry

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