Phot-o' the Day: the Canals of Copenhagen, Denmark

Copenhagen is lousy with canals. And a lot of the canals function as boat parking lots. Which means Copenhagen is lousy with pleasure boats.

I'm guessing that, at one point in Copenhagen's history, these canals were choked full of working boats, with fishermen eking out a living plying the waters of the Baltic Sea or the North Sea (Copenhagen sits at the choke point between the two). Those days are gone. So, like the canals of Copenhagen, may your Labor Day be free of labor.

Visited September 2015.

Phot-o' the Day: Bicycle Parking at Copenhagen Central Station; Copenhagen, Denmark

Today we march forth to Copenhagen for today's Phot-o' the Day. This is only some of the bicycle parking at Copenhagen Central Station.

The Danes love their bicycling. In fact, I do not know how any drivers in cars in Copenhagen ever get to make a right turn, given that that the right-side bike lanes are this endless, impassable torrential flood of bicycles flowing on and on and on and on. The only thing Danes love more than their bicycles is pillaging and plundering England, and it's been more than a millennium since they've last done that.

Oh, and the Danes love their cinnamon rolls, too. When I visited in September 2015, there was a controversy with the E.U. as the Danes were selling (and eating) cinnamon rolls with more cinnamon than E.U. law allowed. And, actually, inside this train station was considered to be one of the better places to get an authentic "more cinnamon than allowed by E.U. law" Danish cinnamon roll.