[Leica] Nathan's PAD 3/11/2020: a walk in Copenhagen

[Don Dory]

Once again a better tour of a city than Rick Steves

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 12:51 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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
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> 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
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> Autumn colours surround our storyteller H.C. Andersen:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-P9CthKp/A
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> 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
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
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