Saturday, In the Park, Doing it Under the Blanket
I got a chance to feel like a Copenhager yesterday when I got out on a bicycle to tour the city. The flood of bikes is unceasing, and the first thing you hear upon exiting a taxi is ‘watch out for the bikes!’ After dodging the three and two wheelers […]
Dinner at Jacob and Pia Marie’s: The Art of Conversation
Our last night in Copenhagen was our best. That’s because we met such interesting people and learned all about their lives at an intimate dinner party held in a spacious art-filled apartment in the city. Jacob Termansen and Pia Marie Molbech are a glamorous and successful couple who photograph top […]
The Gold Coast to Elsinore and Kronborg Castle
We drove up the Danish coast today. It was a gloriously sunny day, a good day for the beach. The houses here on the gold coast toward the city of Elsinore were stately and set back from the road. It was, as our guide told us, the high rent district. […]
Inside the Ice Bar, Copenhagen
You enter into a freezer chamber and don this huge furry cape with gloves. Then you order a drink that comes in a piece of frozen ice shaped like a glass. You drink it in the Ice Bar, where everyone is bundled up and it is about zero. After one, […]
In Copenhagen, US Policies Don’t Stir People Up
It’s our last full day in Denmark, and today we’ll drive up the coast to Elsinore and Kronborg castle, the setting of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Being in Scandinavia has made me think a lot about the priorities here versus what I am used to in the US. I’ve had this same […]
The Torso Twisted, Where Mystery Drinks Are Served
This oddly shaped skyscraper is the tallest part of the city of Malmo’s amazing transformation. A Saab plant and a shipyard threw 29,000 out of work. So the city built this new area of parks, connected housing and common areas, environmentally cutting edge building and development right in this area […]
Sailing Like the Vikings in Roskilde
It’s another sunny hot day in Denmark, and we sailed a Viking boat in Roskilde, just outside of Copenhagen. Our captain spoke in a low voice, telling us to row starboard, or row port, or rest. We made our way out of this harbor. We could see the Viking ship […]
Watch Out for Speeding Bikes!
It was a very warm and sunny day in Scania. Here is a bike parking lot near the train station in Lund, a city of about 40,000 where they have preserved buildings that you can explore and see just how people lived back in the 1700s. I often wish that […]