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Bus #6 or Charlottenlund S-Tog. A twenty-minute S-Tog ride north of the city is the notoriously snooty suburb of Charlottenlund . From the train station - walk up the station concourse and turn right - it's a ten-minute walk through some woods to the immaculate lawns and tree-lined avenues of Charlottenlund Palace and its gardens - an excellent spot for a picnic. There's been a palace here since the seventeenth century: the present one dates from 1731, though it's of no particular interest and now houses the fish research unit of the Danish Ministry of Agriculture. You can't go into the palace itself, but the gardens (free) are open 24 hours a day. A short walk beyond the palace towards the sea is the functional white building which houses the Danish Aquarium (mid-Feb to mid-Oct daily 10am-6pm; mid-Oct to mid-Feb Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat & Sun 10am-5pm; 60kr; www.danmarks-akvarium.dk ), home to over 300 species of fish, plus crocodiles, turtles, frogs and a tank of mudskippers - remarkable creatures, half-fish, half-reptile, which hop between land and water (the bigger ones sometimes hop straight out of their tank into the crocodile pool below, never to return). The tropical collection is an exotic and enticing blend of colourful creatures and rare corals, along with some sharks and a vicious-looking shoal of piranhas, which you can watch being fed at 2pm on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Look out too for the coelacanth preserved in alcohol, a mysterious, prehistoric-looking fish thought to have been extinct for sixty million years until a live specimen was netted in the Indian Ocean in 1938 - further examples have continued to turn up occasionally off the coast of southern Africa. Carry on out towards the sea from the aquarium and you'll arrive at a nice flat, green area leading to a small sandy beach . On hot days you can hardly move here for exposed flesh, and even in winter some hardy souls like to take a dip in the sound. On the left of the beach there's a small private bathing pier (20kr) with showers, toilets and a small cafe. To the right is an old fort, now part of the excellent Charlottenlund Fort campsite.
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