{"id":3903,"date":"2023-02-25T20:41:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=3903"},"modified":"2023-02-25T20:41:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:41:45","slug":"week-07-sweden-and-denmark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=3903","title":{"rendered":"Week 07: Sweden and Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent most of the week in Scandinavia. First work in Stockholm, and then a few days of vacation in Denmark.<\/p>\n

7_1<\/strong>
\nWe had a meeting of our public sector stakeholders (basically, representatives of the 27 EU member states) in Stockholm on Tuesday and Wednesday. Here, my colleague Claire is leading a breakout group:
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7_2<\/strong>
\nStephanie during a break:
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7_3<\/strong>
\nOne of my favourite people, Linda from Latvia:
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7_4<\/strong>
\nThe usual group photo, and I am there, in the back:
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7_5<\/strong>
\nOn Tuesday evening we had the social dinner at a restaurant in Gamla Stan, Stockholm’s beautiful old city:
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7_6<\/strong>
\nBefore the dinner, I had some free time which I decided to spend visiting the Moderna Museet, Stockholm’s main modern art museum. I took the Tunelbanan, the local name for the metro. The station where I got off, Kungstr\u00c3\u00a4dg\u00c3\u00a5rden, was a work of art in itself:
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7_7<\/strong>
\nOne meets nice people on the metro:
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7_8<\/strong>
\nThe Moderna Museet is located on an island called Skeppsholmen. While walking there, I had a nice view of Gamla Stan:
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7_9<\/strong>
\nThere was a lot of interesting art at Moderna Museet. Towards the end of my visit I photographed this couple looking at a large painting:
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7_10<\/strong>
\nOn Wednesday afternoon, our hosts had arranged a visit to the Abba Museum, about 3 km from the hotel. I decided to walk there, and along the way I passed the memorial to Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved perhaps thousands of Jews during WWII:
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7_11<\/strong>
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7_12<\/strong>
\nAt the Abba museum, a guide showed us around:
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7_13<\/strong>
\nThe piano and the guitar on which Bj\u00c3\u00b6rn and Benny composed many of Abba’s hits, on an island in the Stockholm archipelago:
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7_14<\/strong>
\nOn Thursday morning the Swedish patent office had arranged a seminar on intellectual property and sustainability. I shared the stage with this remarkable man, an 83-year old retired police officer, now brand protection manager for an outdoor equipment company. I chatted with him a bit afterwards; it seems clear that he is not working at this age for the money. Rather, this is his way to stay active and have fun:
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7_15<\/strong>
\nAfter the seminar we had lunch, during which I made my last photo in Stockholm, of this absurdity in the hotel restaurant:
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7_16<\/strong>
\nIn the afternoon I made my way to the airport and flew to Copenhagen. The city had put on a special greeting for me on the spire of the city hall (or maybe there was some other reason…):
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7_17<\/strong>
\nAfter checking in at my hotel, I took the metro to Kongens Nytorv where I met up with my childhood friend Beata. It was too late to look for dinner, so we walked to Nyhavn instead, for some liquid nourishment:
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7_18<\/strong>
\nWe sought nourishment here, at a pub in Nyhavn that I began to visit with my father during the last years of his life in the early 2000s. It has now become one my “mandatory” places to visit when I am in Copenhagen:
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7_19<\/strong>
\nBeata enjoying dinner:
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7_20<\/strong>
\nThe weather had been decent during my visit to Scandinavia–until Friday morning, when I woke up to a morning of constant rain. I tried to make something from it, at least photographically, at the bicycle parking outside Copenhagen’s Central Station:
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7_21<\/strong>
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7_22<\/strong>
\nI sighed but there was no choice–I was determined to visit the graves of my parents, even though it meant getting soaked during the walk from the commuter train station to the cemetery. As usual, I first went to my mother’s grave in the municipal cemetery Vestre Kirkeg\u00c3\u00a5rd:
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7_23<\/strong>
\nAnd then on to visit my father at the neighbouring Jewish cemetery:
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7_24<\/strong>
\nThen I went back to the centre of Copenhagen to walk around a bit, despite the rain. On the pedestrian streets one can always seek shelter under awnings and take pictures without getting the camera wet:
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7_25<\/strong>
\nThe small flower market on Kultorvet (“Carbon market”, a medieval name) provided a bit of colour in the greyness:
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7_26<\/strong>
\nThis is probably my favourite picture from this day in Copenhagen:
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7_27<\/strong>
\nI walked on a bit, stopping to take pictures when I had a shelter with a decent vantage point. Despite the bad weather, there were quite a few people on the main pedestrian street Str\u00c3\u00b8get:
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7_28<\/strong>
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7_29<\/strong>
\nIntrepid Asian tourists. A spot of rain will not ruin their selfie:
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7_30<\/strong>
\nCaf\u00c3\u00a9 table 1:
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7_31<\/strong>
\nCaf\u00c3\u00a9 table 2:
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7_32<\/strong>
\nI always think of my son when I pass the Warhammer store in central Copenhagen. He was heavily into it when we lived in Switzerland 2000-2003, and we still have all his pieces. This time, I noticed a plaque on the building:
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7_33<\/strong>
\nSo I took a closer look. A group of resistance fighters was arrested here by Gestapo in February 1945 and executed the following month, just a few weeks before the liberation of Denmark by British troops:
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7_34<\/strong>
\nI walked back to my hotel, picked up my luggage that I had left there that morning, and took the train to my hometown Aarhus, 3 hours away. My dear friend Lars met me at the station, and we spent Friday evening eating pizza and drinking beer, and talking of course. The next day we went to the ARoS art museum, something we do every time I visit. This time the highlight was an exhibition by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota:
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7_35<\/strong>
\nTwo people at ARoS, reading (Lars in the foreground, a random man in the background):
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7_36<\/strong>
\nAfter our ARoS visit, Lars made us lunch at home, the classic Danish sm\u00c3\u00b8rrebr\u00c3\u00b8d<\/em>, usually translated as “open-face sandwich” but it is much more than that:
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7_37<\/strong>
\nSunday was my last day in Denmark, I had a flight home from Billund airport in the afternoon. Early in the morning I went for a walk and enjoyed the morning light on \u00c3\u2026boulevarden:
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7_38<\/strong>
\nThat afternoon, I took my last photo in Denmark this time around, a sculpture at the Billund airport departure hall:
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My Stockholm gallery can be seen here<\/a>. And I have also made a gallery from Aarhus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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