MODERN FAIRY TALE

If you’re looking for a holiday that will provide an escape not just from home or the weather, why not try Copenhagen, where, with its gingerbread castles, romantic canals and relatively car-free streets, you can easily imagine you’ve found refuge from the 21st century?

People have been living around here for at least 1000 years but most of the city as you’ll see it today was built in the past few centuries. Many of its medieval buildings were wiped out by two disastrous fires, one at each end of the 18th century.

It’s a water city, designed around a series of narrow canals that thread back and forth through the old buildings, crisscrossed by picturesque