{"id":524,"date":"2011-04-29T07:52:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T06:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=524"},"modified":"2011-04-29T07:52:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T06:52:15","slug":"week-16-denmark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=524","title":{"rendered":"Week 16: Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent the week leading up to Easter visiting friends in Copenhagen. I always go to Denmark in late April to visit my mother’s grave on the anniversary of her death, and to meet with my sister who comes up from Poland for the same reason. This year, my wife and daughter joined me, taking advantage of the Easter vacation at our daughter’s school. The pictures are presented chronologically.<\/p>\n

Main<\/strong>
\nTuesday morning, waiting for our connecting flight in Barcelona’s El Prat airport. The view from the priority lounge is pretty impressive:
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Alternate 1<\/em>
\nMy daughter writing in her notebook. The layover in Barcelona was 3 hours:
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Alternate 2<\/em>
\nFinally it is time to walk to the gate:
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Alternate 3<\/em>
\nThree hours later or so, we are walking towards the arrival area in Copenhagen airport. The stained glass windows are a nice touch which I have not noticed before:
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Alternate 4<\/em>
\nWe arrive at my childhood friend Beata’s apartment. Her son Astor is dressed in a disgusting Real Madrid shirt. However, it is such a poor fake that the name of the sponsor is mis-spelled (should be BWIN):
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Alternate 5<\/em>
\nPer tradition, I take Astor and his sister Natalia to buy candy:
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Alternate 6<\/em>
\nBeata’s partner Ricardo at our traditional watering in Nyhavn. Ricardo is from Argentina:
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Alternate 7<\/em>
\nThe reason we go to Copenhagen on this date. My sister is touching up the lettering on our mother’s grave:
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Alternate 8<\/em>
\nLater in the day, we visit Christiania, the hippie enclave that has now existed for 40 years, right in the centre of Copenhagen. There are actually real businesses there, for example this metal workshop manned entirely by women:
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Alternate 9<\/em>
\nChristiania is today Copenhagen’s second tourist attraction, only surpassed by Tivoli. People from other parts of Copenhagen also visit. Some to buy drugs, an unfortunate feature of the place, but many more to stroll around and to patronize businesses such as this vegetarian restaurant which my daughter enjoyed very much:
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Alternate 10<\/em>
\nBicycle couriers taking a break on the main pedestrian street, Str\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b8get:
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Alternate 11<\/em>
\nWe were staying in a neighbourhood called \u00c3\u0192\u00cb\u0153sterbro, just north of the centre of town. When my parents and I came to Denmark in 1972, we stayed for 2 weeks at a refugee reception centre in this area. Every day we would be given packed lunches, and every day we would walk to this lake and feed the sandwiches we did not like to the great-great-grandparents of these birds:
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Alternate 12<\/em>
\nThursday we drove to Louisiana, one of the best modern art galleries in the world. We went to see a Picasso exhibition with theme “war and peace”. This painting is similar to Guernica but it depicts another atrocity from the Spanish Civil War, a Republican family that has been murdered in their home by Franco’s troops:
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Alternate 13<\/em>
\nOwl and Picasso, photographed by David Duncan Douglas:
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Alternate 14<\/em>
\nAs a bonus, there was also an exhibition of David Hockney’s iPad paintings:
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Alternate 15<\/em>
\nWhenever I am in Louisiana, I always photograph this room. It contains nothing except this Giacometti sculpture and shows the beautiful surroundings of the gallery:
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Alternate 16<\/em>
\nThere are also sculptures and other art in the gardens. Interpret this one as you wish:
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Alternate 17<\/em>
\nThis is a temporary installation, much to the relief of the ushers, one of whom told me that they are having a hard time keeping children from climbing it, something for which it is not designed:
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Alternate 18<\/em>
\nOur hotel in Classensgade on \u00c3\u0192\u00cb\u0153sterbro. The hotel is called De 9 Sm\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a5 Hjem (the 9 little homes) and consists of some apartments which have been turned into a hotel. I always stay there because it is 2 minutes walk from my friend’s apartment. It is also the birthplace of Victor Borge:
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Alternate 19<\/em>
\nOn Friday we borrowed Beata’s car and drove the 3 hours to my hometown \u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6rhus. My best friend Lars met us with lunch:
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Alternate 20<\/em>
\nAfter lunch, we walked around the city, taking in, among other places, the Aros museum of art with its huge “Boy” sculpture by the Australian artist Ron Muecks:
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Alternate 21<\/em>
\nContinuing our walk, we enjoyed the great weather, as did many others:
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Alternate 22<\/em>
\nAll this walking got us thirsty, so we stopped at Lars’s favourite watering hole, 5 minutes walk from his apartment:
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Alternate 23<\/em>
\nLars analysing his beer:
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Alternate 24<\/em>
\nIn the evening, Lars’s daughter Klara came by and together, they prepared a vegan dinner for us. She is involved with various left-wing groups, and many of her friends are vegetarians, so she is used to making that kind of food:
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Alternate 25<\/em>
\nDinner is served:
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Alternate 26<\/em>
\nWe walked around some more on Saturday morning, my wife taking advantage of the one day during Easter where shops in Denmark are open. I just hung around outside and waited and looked for little details to photograph:
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Alternate 27<\/em>
\nFinally, in the afternoon we drove back to Copenhagen. On the way, we stopped at Br\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b8ndby Strand, where my parents once lived, to pick up some stones from their favourite beach to put on their graves. While there, I snapped these little boys playing around. The one in the foreground is dressed in the shirt of the local football club, Br\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b8ndby FC, which a few years ago knocked Liverpool out of the Champions League but nowadays plays second fiddle to FC Copenhagen:
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More information about some of the places mentioned:
\nChristiania<\/a>
\nLouisiana<\/a>
\nAros<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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