Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 clich?, but a nice clich?: https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-bRhCh9C/A Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right"