{"id":1732,"date":"2016-11-12T07:44:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T06:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1732"},"modified":"2016-11-12T09:02:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T08:02:56","slug":"week-45-aarhus-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1732","title":{"rendered":"Week 45: Aarhus-Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The week began in Aarhus, continued in Copenhagen and ended in Alicante, where I flew home on Thursday afternoon. So the first group of pictures is from Aarhus, the rest from Copenhagen, and there is one picture from my local bakery at the end. The photos are almost exactly chronologically arranged, so you are in effect coming on a walk with me in both cities.<\/p>\n

45_1<\/strong>
\nI got up Monday morning and walked to a bakery to buy some rolls for Lars’s and mine breakfast. It was a cool, slightly foggy, late October morning. This is the spire of Aarhus Cathedral:
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45_2<\/strong>
\nLars lives in the oldest part of Aarhus (often called the Latin Quarter like in Paris), with many narrow streets, small squares, and statues, old and not so old. Here is one on Klostertorv:
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45_3<\/strong>
\nAnd a more modern one on another small square:
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45_4<\/strong>
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45_5<\/strong>
\nLater that morning, I was walking around the port area. When I lived in Aarhus in the 1970s and early 80s, the port was reasonably busy, not least because of the frequent ferries to Sj\u00c3\u00a6lland, the big island on which Copenhagen is located. But today the ferries are no more since there is a bridge linking Fyn with Sj\u00c3\u00a6lland further south, and the whole port area has been converted into office buildings, apartments, the city’s main library and the like. Here is a group of cyclists on Europaplads:
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45_6<\/strong>
\nParking belonging to an office (or shared by several offices) in the Latin Quarter:
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45_7<\/strong>
\nThis is Skolegade, so named because it leads from the port to the oldest school in the city, dating back to the 16th century. It still operates, as a normal public high school. Back in my day, Skolegade was THE place to go drinking on a Friday night. Today there are still some bars and restaurants, including some that were there back in my teenage years. But nowadays I never go here, there are other watering holes which are much more attractive. Still, I get a bit nostalgic for my youth when I walk here:
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45_8<\/strong>
\nJust another pretty old building:
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45_9<\/strong>
\nAarhus is one big construction zone, reflecting the economic dynamism of this part of Jutland. And next year the city will be the European Capital of Culture:
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45_10<\/strong>
\nThis is a new place, opened since my last visit to Aarhus. It is Aarhus Street Food, an indoor food market as exists in many cities, but less posh and at quite reasonable prices for Denmark. It is located in what used to be a huge bus garage belonging to DSB, the biggest Danish rail and bus operator. This means that it is covered, very convenient given the Danish climate:
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45_11<\/strong>
\nThe food stalls are mainly international. This is not the place for traditional Danish hot dogs:
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45_12<\/strong>
\nThe place is new, so new stalls are opening from time to time. I came across these two ladies doing a food shoot in connection with one such opening:
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45_13<\/strong>
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45_14<\/strong>
\nThere is even art to look at while you eat:
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45_15<\/strong>
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45_16<\/strong>
\nI walked around some more, looking at quirky entrances to shops or bars:
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45_17<\/strong>
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45_18<\/strong>
\nThen lunchtime arrived. I had arranged to meet up with two classmates from primary school, Ole and Lone, whom I have known since we were in 6th grade in 1972. We met at Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Ganefryd, an excellent vegetarian restaurant near Lars’s apartment:
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45_19<\/strong>
\nLars came home from work, we had the last dinner together, and then went to a new (for me) bar, Ris Ras, where the selection was good and the decor was amusing:
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45_20<\/strong>
\nTuesday morning I took the train from Aarhus to Copenhagen, a journey of just over 3 hours. It was my 56th birthday, but it was also the 12th anniversary of my father’s death. So my birthday celebrations have been low-key to non-existent the last 12 years, by choice. After arriving in Copenhagen, I met up for lunch with a couple of friends, and then I took the local train to the cemetery. It is located near the old Carlsberg brewery. It was afternoon, the sun was already low, and I stopped to make this image of the railroad bridges:
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45_21<\/strong>
\nAs is my habit, I first walked to the “regular” cemetery, Vestre Kirkeg\u00c3\u00a5rd, where my mother is buried. To get there from the commuter train station I walk through a small local park. I really enjoyed seeing the autumn colours, something we do not have in Alicante:
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45_22<\/strong>
\nMy mother’s grave is well kept; my sister lives in Poland and I live in Spain, but for a modest fee of about 150 Euro per year, the cemetery maintains the grave, plants flowers of the season etc. A burning candle told me that some of my parents’ old friends had visited within the past 24 hours:
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45_23<\/strong>
\nMy father is buried in the adjacent Jewish cemetery. It is “new”, having been founded in 1885:
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45_24<\/strong>
\nAs I always do, I had taken a couple of the small stones from my mother’s grave to put on my father’s tombstone. The stone needs some touching up, I must see to it in the spring:
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45_25<\/strong>
\nThis is a wider view of the Jewish cemetery; in the background is one of Denmark’s main prisons, Vestre F\u00c3\u00a6ngsel. At least the inmates have quiet neighbours:
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45_26<\/strong>
\nI usually do not look at other graves besides that of my father. But this time I did stop to pay my respects to Dan Uzan, a 37-year old volunteer guard who was murdered by an Islamic terrorist outside the main synagogue in Copenhagen on 15 February 2015, the same man who earlier that evening had attacked a free speech discussion at a community centre and killed film director Film N\u00c3\u00b8rgaard (the terrorist was tracked down and shot by the police a few hours later):
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45_27<\/strong>
\nVisitors from far away pay tribute to Dan Uzan:
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45_28<\/strong>
\nAfter visiting the cemeteries, I made my way to \u00c3\u02dcsterbro, where my childhood friend Beata lives. I checked into my hotel, and spent a pleasant evening with her. The next morning, I went for a walk in the neighbourhood, which I know well. \u00c3\u02dcsterbro is only 2-3 km from the centre of Copenhagen but it is very nice and peaceful. And it has the lakes, such as this one, with a metro station under construction in the background:
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45_29<\/strong>
\nLots of different birds live in the \u00c3\u02dcsterbro lakes:
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45_30<\/strong>
\nI walked a bit down along the lake and then looked back towards \u00c3\u02dcsterbrogade, the main thoroughfare of \u00c3\u02dcsterbro:
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45_31<\/strong>
\nTypical \u00c3\u02dcsterbro apartment buildings:
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45_32<\/strong>
\nThis is an iconic road sign, seen all over Denmark as far as I can remember; sometimes near schools, sometimes on rural roads leading through villages, sometimes, like here, in a backyard where people park. The text means “look out for me”:
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45_33<\/strong>
\nWhen I was a child, my only knowledge of Halloween was from the Peanuts strip. But today it is quite popular in Denmark. Here are some leftovers outside a school on \u00c3\u02dcsterbro:
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45_34<\/strong>
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45_35<\/strong>
\nA heart in the pavement:
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45_36<\/strong>
\nFinally, I finished my walk at a bakery called “The Pure Bread” where one can also have a cup of coffee, something that was sorely needed given the cold. This woman was making use of their wifi:
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45_37<\/strong>
\nAnd this lady was in an animated conversation with a friend:
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45_38<\/strong>
\n\u00c3\u02dcsterbro is a neighbourhood where people like good food and good wine, and they are not going to waste a good crate either:
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45_39<\/strong>
\nAfter breakfast, I walked to the \u00c3\u02dcsterport train station to take a commuter train north to Humleb\u00c3\u00a6k, a coastal town where the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is located. Just outside the station, I saw the cycling equivalent of incorrectly parked vehicles heading for the municipal dump. I believe that the owners have a time-limited opportunity to retrieve them, but I am not sure how they are disposed of in the end:
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45_40<\/strong>
\nWhile waiting for the train, I noticed this funny political sign. There is no election campaign going on at the moment, so I guess this is just a longer-term opinion-building effort. The party behind the sign is a left-of-centre party, and the point is the rising inequality. The sign indicates that the bench is for people making at least 1 million DKK per year (about \u00e2\u201a\u00ac140,000) while the poor can stand on the side:
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45_41<\/strong>
\nThe train ride to Humbleb\u00c3\u00a6k is about 1\/2 hour, followed by a 10-minute walk from the station to the museum. The weather was dreary but the \u00c3\u02dcresund (the strait separating Denmark and Sweden) had a stark beauty to it:
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45_42<\/strong>
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45_43<\/strong>
\nLouisiana is a fantastic art museum, which I always enjoy visiting. This is one of the permanent installations, which I have always loved:
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More images from my visit to Louisiana can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

45_44<\/strong>
\nIn the evening, after Beata came home from torturing her patients all day (she is a dentist), we went to the centre. I wanted to see a big exhibition about Jacob Riis at Kunstforeningen Gammel Strand, called Light in Dark Places<\/a>, chronicling his work as a photographer and social reformer in New York in the early 20th century:
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45_45<\/strong>
\nOne of the truly interesting features was a recreation of the kind of presentations Riis would give to raise awareness of the horrible conditions in the tenements of New York where the working class lived:
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45_46<\/strong>
\nThis is the kind of camera Riis used:
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45_47<\/strong>
\nKunstforeningen (literally it means “art association”) is a gallery with a nice meeting room which can be rented for special occasions. It was being prepared for some event:
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45_48<\/strong>
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45_49<\/strong>
\nCopenhagen’s metro is being expanded, and there is construction in many places around the city. At least attempts are made to make the construction fences look more attractive. Here, on Gammel Strand:
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45_50<\/strong>
\nAfter the Jacob Riis exhibition, we walked to the restaurant where we were going to have dinner, a place in the old meat packing district called BioMio. Along the way, we passed R\u00c3\u00a5dhuspladsen, the square in front of Copenhagen’s city hall. The building on the left with all the bright neon signs is the headquarters of the Danish industry federation, and the signs are logos of various member companies:
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45_51<\/strong>
\nWe also passed the main entrance to Tivoli:
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45_52<\/strong>
\nBeata at dinner. I put this image on Facebook with a caption “Give me more wine!” or something like that, but truth be told, she had only had water at this point. I just caught her in a funny moment:
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45_53<\/strong>
\nOn Thursday morning I packed my bags, checked out of the hotel, and walked to the \u00c3\u02dcsterport station to take the train to the airport. It was a cold morning, and during the night temperatures had been below freezing for the first time this autumn:
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45_54<\/strong>
\nI went back to work on Friday and did not take a single picture that day. On Saturday morning, as I do every morning, I walked Cheeta and stopped by the local bakery to buy that morning’s baguette. Life was back to normal:
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