Those Places Thursday: Mom's 1953 Europe Road Trip - Tivoli Gardens

From Mom's Europe trip diary, in the "PLACES VISITED" section:

September 11, Friday – Road between Kungsbacka [Sweden] and Copenhagen, Denmark

Had difficulty starting car - eventually it worked.  Drove to Helsingborg where we caught ferry to Denmark (20 min. ride).  Ate in Helsingor [Denmark] and then drove to Copenhagen.  Hotels crowded but managed to get rooms in a pensional.*  Went downtown to eat and then walked through Tivoli which is an amusement park lit with beautiful lights and lanterns.  Think I will like Copenhagen and someday would like to come back.  No difficulty through customs.  Had some real good beer - Tuborg Gold Seal.

* According to the "HOTELS STOPPED AT" section of the trip diary, my mother and her friends stayed at the Juul Jensen Pensional in Copenhagen, Denmark, this night.

Here are some photos of Tivoli Gardens:

Copenhagen - Tivoli [Entrance, 26 August 1963 / Roger Wollstadt / CC BY-SA-2.0

Lanterns in Tivoli Park [28 April 2012] / Reuben Degiorgio / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

This is the 35th in a series of posts transcribing entries in my mother's 1953 Europe Trip journal. 


© Amanda Pape - 2014 - click here to e-mail me.

(Not-So-) Wordless Wednesday: Mom's 1953 Europe Road Trip: Sweden

From Mom's Europe trip diary, in the "PLACES VISITED" section:

September 10, Thursday – Road between Sarpsborg, Norway, and Kungsbacka, Sweden

Left Norwegian home and drove to Halden [Norway] where we ate breakfast.  Spent about 45 min. in a bank trying to get a traveler's check changed into Swedish money.  Quite a complicated process which I won't do again.  Went through Norwegian and Swedish customs without inspection again.  Drove on to Kungsbacka where we spent the night.*

* According to the "HOTELS STOPPED AT" section of the trip diary, my mother and her friends stayed at the Stadshotellet in Kungsbacka, Sweden this night.

Stadshotellet i Kungsbacka [City hotel in Kungsbacka, May 1948] / Fredrik Daniel Bruno via Swedish National Heritage Board / CC Public Domain - no known copyright restrictions

Here's another image of the hotel, from a postcard postmarked in 1952, used with permission of its owner, Leif Gustafsson, from his website:

And here is a May 1948 image of the Kungsbacka church and the Town Hall at Stortorget (the Main Square) in Kungsbacka:

Kungsbacka kyrka och rådhuset vid Stortorget i Kungsbacka / Fredrik Bruno via Swedish National Heritage Board / No known copyright restrictions

This is the 34th in a series of posts transcribing entries in my mother's 1953 Europe Trip journal.


© Amanda Pape - 2014 - click here to e-mail me.