\nI woke up early on Sunday morning at my hotel in central Copenhagen. My flight was around noon, so I had time for an early morning walk, also to get some caffeine into my body, since the hotel restaurant was closed due to Covid restrictions. Fortunately, there was a grocery store with takeaway coffee just 50 meters down the street. Thus fortified, I continued my walk, stopping at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek which had a nice Rodin exhibition, sadly inaccessible due to the same restrictions that kept me from getting breakfast at the hotel:
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<\/p>\n14_2<\/strong> 14_3<\/strong> 14_4<\/strong> 14_5<\/strong> 14_6<\/strong> 14_7<\/strong> 14_8<\/strong> 14_9<\/strong> 14_10<\/strong> 14_11<\/strong> 14_12<\/strong> 14_13<\/strong> 14_14<\/strong> 14_15<\/strong> 14_16<\/strong> 14_17<\/strong> 14_18<\/strong> 14_19<\/strong> 14_20<\/strong> A week that began in Denmark and finished back home in Alicante, with some iffy but photogenic weather. 14_1 I woke up early on Sunday morning at my hotel in central Copenhagen. My flight was around noon, so I had time for an early morning walk, also to get some caffeine into my body, since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3141,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3228\/revisions\/3232"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI kept walking towards Christiansborg, a complex of buildings which houses the Danish parliament, the Supreme Court and the Queen’s reception rooms, so all 3 branches of government are represented. To get there, I crossed a canal on a small bridge called the Marble Bridge from which there is a nice view of the adjacent street:
\n![\"DSF7357\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_2.jpg\")
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\nThe Royal Stables are also located in the area, on the back side of Christiansborg:
\n![\"DSF7361\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_3.jpg\")
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\nThis is the front of Christiansborg, with the Parliament on the left, and further back the Supreme Court. The huge balls were installed a few years ago, following the terrorist attacks using trucks or cars as weapons in France, Germany and other countries:
\n![\"DSF7373\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_4.jpg\")
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\nKing Frederik VII who signed the first democratic constitution on 5 June 1849, abolishing his own absolute powers and replacing them with the constitutional monarchy we have today:
\n![\"DSF7374\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_5.jpg\")
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\nI walked back to my hotel, checked out and took the metro to the airport. I like these two statues of travellers in the terminal:
\n![\"R006541\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_6.jpg\")
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\nThe departure lounge looked just as desolate as Alicante airport did four days earlier (although Copenhagen airport is bigger and nicer):
\n![\"R006544\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_7.jpg\")
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\nEaster Monday started with some nice sunshine. I walked down to the beach early, the cleaning people were still at it:
\n![\"DSF7385\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_8.jpg\")
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\nThis woman was already enjoying the beach:
\n![\"DSF7384\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_9.jpg\")
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\nLater in the day, my wife and I drove to a golf course near my office to play a round. My performance was not good, but I loved seeing this goose family on the course:
\n![\"R006545\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_10.jpg\")
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\nAfterwards, our daughter and her high school friend Julio (who studies in Granada but was here visiting his parents) joined us for lunch at the golf course:
\n![\"R006548\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_11.jpg\")
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\nThey do a good paella at the golf course restaurant:
\n![\"R006549\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_12.jpg\")
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\nAnd the desserts are not half bad either:
\n![\"R006550\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_13.jpg\")
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\nOn Wednesday I was in a meeting at the office, and for once not online. So I wore a tie, a garment rarely used in the past year. Even then, I chose to wear my beer tie:
\n![\"R006553\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_14.jpg\")
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\nWhen I returned home, I found my daughter’s delicious banana bread, right out of the oven:
\n![\"R006556\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_15.jpg\")
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\nThursday morning the clouds were heavy:
\n![\"1010028\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_16.jpg\")
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\nThursday evening, at the supermarket, a dog with a sad face:
\n![\"R006557\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_17.jpg\")
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\nSaturday morning was grey and rainy, unusual here in Alicante:
\n![\"DSF7389\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_18.jpg\")
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\nBut bad weather is good from a photographic point of view:
\n![\"DSF7387\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_19.jpg\")
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\nI finished Saturday with a bike ride in the afternoon. The clouds were still heavy, but I stayed dry:
\n![\"1010035\"](\"uploads\/2021\/14_20.jpg\")
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