{"id":352,"date":"2008-07-19T02:27:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T09:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=352"},"modified":"2017-10-27T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T23:00:16","slug":"nyhavn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/nyhavn\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyhavn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nyhavn means New Harbor in English, but this harbor isn&#8217;t very new. Nyhavn has been around for well over 300 years. Hans Christian Andersen even lived here for a while.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4981trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-353\" title=\"Nyhavn Copenhagen Denmark\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4981trim.jpg\" alt=\"Nyhavn Copenhagen Denmark\" width=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4981trim.jpg 1288w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4981trim-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4981trim-799x652.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tourists come here now as the starting point for Copenhagen Canal Tours or just to enjoy the views. Many also eat and drink at the restaurants, cafes, and bars. From the signs\u00a0I saw the establishments\u00a0appear to be even more expensive than those located elsewhere in town. We investigated getting some ice cream here, but it was going to be over US$6 a cone in Nyhavn, versus the usual $4 to $5. (By the time we get back to the states next month I&#8217;m guessing we will have spent over $300 on ice cream, ice cream\u00a0that would have cost us less than $50 back home. Ouch!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4985trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-355\" title=\"American kids at Nyhavn in Copenhagen Denmark\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4985trim.jpg\" alt=\"American kids at Nyhavn in Copenhagen Denmark\" width=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4985trim.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4985trim-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_4985trim-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">July is Copenhagen Jazz Festival month so a temporary venue was set up and jazz was playing. We couldn&#8217;t get very close so we kept going.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you are familiar with San Francisco, do these pictures remind you of anything? To me Nyhavn seems a bit like a blend of the &#8220;Painted Ladies&#8221; seen from Alamo Square with the Marina\/Fisherman&#8217;s Wharf. I say this only because, as a former tour guide in San Francisco, these kinds of strange parallels always seem to pop into my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyhavn means New Harbor in English, but this harbor isn&#8217;t very new. Nyhavn has been around for well over 300 years. Hans Christian Andersen even lived here for a while. Tourists come here now as the starting point for Copenhagen Canal Tours or just to enjoy the views. Many also eat and drink at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[20,123,78,346,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17672,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/17672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}