Tivoli Gardens
The amusement park beside Copenhagen’s Town Hall Square (Rådhuspladsen); see Copenhagen (Literary).
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither Here Nor There | Bill Bryson | turning point | Shut for the season, but the walk back past the town hall gives Bryson his best Danish scene. |
Neither Here Nor There — Bill Bryson (1991)
Source: Readwise highlight
I walked across to Tivoli, even though I could see from a distance that it was shut and darkened, as if under dust sheets.
- Role: turning point
- In the book: Chapter 10. At the end of Strøget, Bryson admires the neon signs on the roofs of the Town Hall Square and crosses to Tivoli, which won’t open for a couple of weeks. Walking back across the square he finds a small crowd by the town hall, where two police officers are gently helping a drugged teenage boy.
- Why it matters: The closed park matters less than where it puts him: the police scene beside it is the centre of his argument that Danes are humane and easygoing.
- Not pinned separately: Strøget, the pedestrian street he walks from Kongens Nytorv to Rådhuspladsen (he finds it “a tiny bit seedier” every visit).