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Ferries: Book any ferries now that you plan to take later in Scandinavia.
Visit a travel agent or call direct. For the Copenhagen-Oslo overnight
ferry described on here , call DFDS (Mon-Fri 9:30-17:00, tel. [phone],
www.dfdsseaways.com ) or visit the DSB Resjebureau at the main train
station. For the boat from Stockholm to Helsinki described on here , con-
tact Viking Line (08/452-4000, www.vikingline.fi ) or Tallink Silja (tel.
08 22 21 40, www.tallinksilja.com ) . For the boat to St. Petersburg de-
scribed on here , contact St. Peter Line ( www.stpeterline.com ) .
Jazz Festival: The Copenhagen Jazz Festival—10 days in early July—puts
the town in a rollicking slide-trombone mood. The Danes are Europe's
jazz enthusiasts, and this music festival fills the town with happiness. The
TI prints up an extensive listing of each year's festival events, or get the
latest at www.jazz.dk . There's also a winter jazz festival in February.
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Getting Around Copenhagen
By Public Transit: It's easy to navigate Copenhagen, with its fine buses,
Metro, and S-tog (a suburban train system with stops in the city; Eurail valid
on S-tog). For a helpful website that covers public-transport options (nation-
wide) in English, consult www.rejseplanen.dk .
The same tickets are used throughout the system. A 24-kr, two-zone ticket
gets you an hour's travel within the center—pay as you board buses, or buy
from station ticket offices or vending machines for the Metro. (Automated
ticket machines maynotaccept American credit cards,butIwasabletousean
American debit card with a PIN, and most machines also take Danish cash; if
you want to use your credit card and the machine won't take it, find a cashier.)
Assume you'll be within the middle two zones unless traveling to or from the
airport, which requires a three-zone ticket (36 kr).
One handy option is the blue, two-zone klippekort, which can be
shared—for example, two people can take five rides each (145 kr for 10 rides,
insert it in the validation box each time you board a train and it'll snip off one
of your rides).