What I did on my summer vacation...

Visiting Thorfinn and enjoying some Kriek Beer at a Brussels café. French fries not pictured.



Day trip to the medieval town of Brugges, Belgium.


Bytur i København på cykle. We biked to the flashy new opera house situated across the harbour from Amalienborg.


Beach day at Amagerstrand. It only rained a little.


Keeping everybody in check.

Ida

This is Ida Brun. She was a notable Danish ballet dancer from the 19th century. During kartoffleferie (fall break) in '99 I spent five days at Thorvaldsen's Museum at an art camp trying to make her head out of clay. Unfortunately in the decade since, my Ida has lost her nose and is suffering from a severe case of cracked skin. I was happy to find marble Ida in much better condition on my latest trip to the museum.

Sankt Hans

Yesterday was the ultimate Danish summer day.
The day was clear, blue and relatively hot for Denmark.
The deer in Dyrehaven meandered the fields in front of the hermitage as if they were posing for a guldalder painting.
We stopped for lunch in a beautiful old mill village.
And it was Sankt Hans. So the evening featured a bonfire in Bernstoffsparken and a large gathering of Danes singing nationalistic songs.


Dyrehaven.

Lunch.

On The Street

Harem pants is a trend on fire in Cph. They were also extremely popular among the backpacker set of SEA. Another point for globalization -or should that be minus point?

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"Agreement Street" dotted with a heart.

Domestic Goddess

I am honing my skills as a seamstress and cook. Well honing may be a little extreme. First consider, in the last 16 months I've cooked a proper supper approximately once (this largely due to a severe lack of essentials i.e. an oven). Now that I am cooking meals on a regular basis I'll be appearing on Top Chef in no time. But still, perhaps resuscitating is a more accurate term.

My seamstressing has been in reaction to the arrestingly high price of doing pretty much anything in Cph especially shopping which I now consider a purely spectator sport. I have thus turned to the domestic sphere in which I try to copy designer bags I see on my "sightseeing" outings.

Now I have loads of entertainment for those hail storm filled days (of which there have been 2 since my arrival, btw).