I am spending this week in Denmark, my first trip here this year because of the
damn virus, and I so enjoy being back in my beloved country. Yesterday I spent
all day walking around Copenhagen before taking a train to Aarhus in the early
evening. My legs hurt afterwards, but it was worth it. A few little vignettes
from the day.
In the morning, I went to see “Freedom”, a statue commemorating the 100th
anniversary of Denmark’s colonies in the Carribean to the US in 1917. The
statue symbolizes a slave rebellion in the 1840s and reminds us that we too
have a dark past involving colonies and slaves. Fittingly, it was made by an
artist from Ghana, the country from where slaves were shipped to the Virgin
Islands to work on the plantations. It stands in front of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-48dvrpS/A
After lunch I walked around Kongens Have, a 17th century park established, like
much else in Copenhagen, by Christian IV in the 17th century. The castle in the
background is called Rosenborg and houses the Danish crown jewels among many
other things:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-nz2VXDR/A
Autumn colours surround our storyteller H.C. Andersen:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-P9CthKp/A
And finally Nyhavn. This scene is a bit of a cliché, but a nice cliché:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-bRhCh9C/A
Cheers,
Nathan
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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