Copenhagen for The Three Generations: a Friday-to-Monday weekend

The painted houses and the old ships, benches along the quay for the grandparents and the sunny side for everyone; Andersen lived at three addresses here.

An hour on an open boat under the low bridges, past the Opera, the Little Mermaid and Christianshavn; level boarding and a seat for everybody.

A 1780s ferry inn with a herring buffet for the grown-ups, meatballs for the children and a ground-floor room with long tables.

Free, with lifts to every floor and a children's museum where they dress up as Vikings; the grandparents take the Sun Chariot and the Golden Horns.

A ground-floor smørrebrød room from 1877 with long tables; herring and snaps for the elders, a plain cheese piece for the children.

The king's garden by Rosenborg castle, flat gravel paths, benches, a playground and a puppet theatre in summer; the afternoon's only plan.

The Royal Life Guards march from Rosenborg to the palace square at noon; stand by the colonnade, where there is room for a buggy and a walking stick.

A corner café by the palaces with a Sunday brunch plate, a children's omelette and a wide pavement for the buggy; one table for all of you.

The chair tunnel and the craft galleries in the old Frederiks Hospital, with a lift and a garden; the children pick a favourite chair, the grandparents sit in one.

Lifts to every floor, benches in every room and a winter garden of palms in the middle; Egyptian mummies for the children, Degas for the grandparents.

Lunch under the palms of the winter garden, smørrebrød and a children's plate, at a table nobody needs back.

A free lift to the highest tower in the city, 106 metres, with a glass-walled platform and the whole skyline; the last thing before the metro.