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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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The sun poured into the room at an ungodly hour, so my wake-up call at 7:15 was redundant. It gets light at about 4:30 am here, a long day. We drove over the 16 km Oresund Bridge, a combination of tunnels and graceful sweeping spindles, and drove along the flat […]
Tonight we met a young family who live just outside Copenhagen’s city center. The house was a perfect metaphor, in some ways, for how the people here live. Small, compact, cozy and well designed. Tina Baungaard Jensen, who works for Visit Denmark as their international press officer, told us the […]
Our friendly and outgoing guide Henrik Thierlein told us that herring is the Scandinavian sushi. And that the proper way to eat herring was on a piece of buttered whole grain brown bread, with a fork. We toured this lovely city filled with canals how else? By boat. There are […]
I am a bit nervous and scattered. That’s because ahead of me is a 4-hour drive to Newark Airport, then a 5:50 pm flight on SAS to Copenhagen. Paul Shoul and I are going on a trip that is billed as “A Thousand Year Odyssey,” it will include the Danish […]
Sean Healy wrote an article for GoNOMAD about Matacanes: Underwater rivers in Mexico. Beautiful photos of swimmers in gorges. “This is one of the least traveled, under-discovered, serene and beautiful places I have ever been. Emerald moss blankets rock and tree; a veritable cornucopia of plant life surrounds us and […]
Allan F. Moore has written a new book about a record that changed the American music landscape. I read a piece about the book in the WSJ a few weeks back. The Beatle’s Sgt Pepper album, which was released in 1967 was and is considered a revolutionary recording. Just before […]