Denmark and Sweden

We went on a holiday to Denmark and Sweden. I did lots of fun things and some boring things.




Denmark

First we flew to Copenhagen which is the capital city of Denmark. One of the boring things was a boat trip on the canals of Copenhagen. We saw three houseboats and three churches. One of the churches had a spire with found dragons that twisted around each other.

Tivoli
Tivoli is a theme park in the centre of the city that was built in 1843. We went there at night and there were lots of lights. In Tivoli we went on an octopus roller coaster ride. There was also a roller coaster ride I really wanted to do but I wasn’t tall enough to go on it. It was called the Demon. We went on some dodgem cars. Leo and me were on a team trying to bump other cars but not each others. The park closed before we got a chance to do two other rides we really wanted to do.







Vor Frelsors Kirke
We went to a big church with a spire that went really high. We climbed up 400 steps to get to the top. The last section was a climb around the outside of the spire. It was freaky because it was windy and there wasn’t much protection. You could see all of Copenhagen from the top.









Guiness World Record Museum
We went to the Guiness World Record Museum. I read about some ocean world records. You get to try to beat some of the records. I tried to beat the drumming record. You get one minute and the record is 1071 drum hits. My best try was 607. There was also one where you had to punch this boxing bag to beat the biggest knockout in a boxing match. You get points for how hard you hit the bag and you had to get 100% and my record was 29%. If you hit the bag really hard sometimes it would only give you 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5% weirdly.

We saw a model of a French person called Monsieur Mange Tout (which means ‘Mr Eat All’). He has eaten a small airplane and he ate lots of other metal such as bike wheels.







Roskilde Viking Museum
After Copenhagen we visited Roskilde. There was a museum where there was the remains of real Viking ships. They could only find some bits of the ships under the water because they were more than 1000 years old. We watched a boring movie but at the end we got to dress like Vikings and played on an old Viking ship.







Legoland
The best part of the trip was when we went to Legoland (a theme park in Denmark). The best ride there was the Technic ride. At first you go slowly on a turn, then you go up and turn around really fast and then you go straight down through a tunnel and straight up again. You have really sharp curves and because the doors are open you feel like you are going to fall out and you are really high up. Then you go straight down again but less fast and then through a thinner tunnel. Then you go on another turn and then it goes more slowly to warn you that it’s the end of the ride. When you are getting out and in it’s hard because the car doesn’t stop moving.







There was a Temple ride where you move around and you have to shoot little colours and you get points. The highest is purple because it gives you 1000 points.



There was a ride where you go in a mini rollercoaster and there is stacks of Lego inside a castle and when you go out it goes very fast and there is a lot of curves and turns and then you go back inside.


The whole theme part is Lego. There is a big Lego shop and an Atlantis aquarium. We stayed in the Legoland hotel. There were lots of Lego things. At night you do a competition where you do a quest and you win a Lego prize if you are one of the winners. One of them is finding and counting crabs and another one is where you for some papers and when you find the numbers have to go and match them with a code to get the letters to enter the competition.





Before we left Denmark, we visited the very top of Denmark

Sweden

We took the ferry from Denmark to Sweden and we had to drive our car onto it! In the ferry I got an apple juice and a pizza. We went on the deck and saw how much foam was created by the big engines on the back of the ferry.

Gothenburg
We went on another kind of boring boat ride. The only thing that made it fun was that there was a bridge so low we had to get off our chairs and duck down while we went under it.


We went to a cool museum called the Universum. I was reading really interesting stuff about the polar regions.

We saw three live anacondas, some little tiny monkeys, a crocodile and some frogs.

We went to a ‘beautiful but deadly’ section where saw a lion fish, some other fishes and an octopus, some jellyfish and lizards and some other snakes.

At the end we went to a play section. Leo and me versed each other in a race and we played soccer in a soccer net.

When we were in Gothenberg, we stayed at a hotel called Riverton and we still have the pen from the hotel.

Then we did a really looooooooooooooooooooong drive to Stockholm.

Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital city of Sweden. The first day there we did a long walk. First we went to the palace where the royal family live. We saw royal guards wearing b right blue uniforms and carrying guns with bayonets on them. It looked like they were going to do something to you because they were walking around with their guns in position.

We took a ferry across to an island where there was an open air museum called Skansen (it is the world’s first open air museum). We saw glass blowing and I got to keep some glass crystals.

We saw an old pharmacy and how they used to make medicine. We saw some weird animals, like reindeers, bears, lynxes, mooses, elk and foxes.

At the end, we saw heaps of humungous spiders, most of them from South America and some from Africa.

The next day we went to the Modern Art museum. We did a quiz there and they gave me a postcard of one of the artworks in the museum. I also got a cute doorstop in the shape of a leaf. I got a green one and Leo got a red one.

In Sweden and Denmark they have lots of cool designs and we saw some really good ones at the museum.

I miss you and will write again soon.

JULES