Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > > 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" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information