the Danish have warmed to us.

Danish Sylvie.  :)

On the train.

Our flights from Eugene to Copenhagen were uneventful and peaceful.  We sat in the four-across middle seats from Seattle to Amsterdam redeye with Brian and Lee from Seattle.  We became immediate fast friends with them and laughed, drank, and told stories far into the night.  (Hence the jetlag?)

I was publicly shamed by the KLM airline staff for having two bags to carry on instead of one, and they loudly proclaimed to all that my rollerbag wouldn't fit in the overhead bin.  HA - with a little help from roger, it crammed in nicely.  (he did laugh at my public shaming, however.)

Upon arrival, we found everything in Copenhagen a bit harder to navigate than we thought, and the people a bit standoff-ish.  Alhtough everyone speaks english, not much is translated on signs.

Our hotel, The Adina, is lovely, our room quiet, large, with a little kitchen and balcony.  It's away from the city center towards the harbor, about a mile on foot from the main areas of Copenhagen.

After a nap, Roger and I ventured out for dinner.  We found a recommended restaurant...eventually, called Restaurant Parnas.  www.parnas.aok.dk.  It's a small, funky little place that's been open since 1930, and

the decor appears original.  We were the only non-Danes there, with the menu  untranslated from the most difficult danish.  Our delightful server brought us two huge plates of traditional danish food.  We know not what we ate, but we ate a lot.  And happily, mine had an egg on it. As everyone knows, all food is made better with an egg.    (Yes, all food.  No exceptions.)

Sunday, September 13, We woke up much too early to the sound of rain, which we expected.  We ate in the room, showered, then ambled out and strolled around the old part of the City.  The rain had stopped, not many were out, and the city was lovely.  We circled Tivoli and peered through the fence at the Gardens, and arrived at the New Carlsberg Glyptotek museum.  Glyptotek means "Statuary," and statues it had - a stunning array of ancient statues, mostly greek and roman busts from around 500 bc to 200 ad.  But it also had the seemingly unrelated collections of 17th and 18th century danish paintings, and an amazingly comprehensive collection of french impressionism and post impressionism, the best we've seen outside of the D'Orsey.  It was a wonderful museum of art - beautifully laid out, with fascinating and contextual historical commmentary. One of the best art museums I've seen.

We left the main tourist area and ended up at a local dutch hamburger joint for lunch.  I had "the traditional dutch burger" roger had the Copenhagen, which is the popular burger at Danish pubs.  Mine was a sublime burger - a mixture of pickled and fried onions, an aioli-like sauce.  Yummy.  We ate our burgers the Danish way - cut up with knife and fork.  Trust me, not as easy as it sounds.  Enjoyed with some local danish beer.

The National Denmark History Museum (Nationalmuseet) beckoned after lunch. Again, not to be missed.  Huge, rambling museum that would take days to see all.  We stayed in  the Danish prehistorical section.  The bogs in Denmark have been a wealth of amazingly preserved graves and burial sites, which have led to a comprehensive understanding of prehistoric scandinavian times.  There were tools, weapons, coffins, jewelry, boats, clothing, and at least five well preserved bodies/skeletons, (mummies!!) dating from 13000 BC (yes, 13,000!!) and later.  Again, the Danes have created one of the most compelling and interest exhibits I have seen.

After walking through the slot (castle,) we climbed the Rundetaan (literally, Round Tower.)  It was a  wonderful ascent, a medieval ramp circling all the way up, ending in spiral stair to a far-reaching view of all of copenhagen, the harbor, the bridge to Malmo, and Sweden.

on our way home, we stopped at the Netto grocery for brie, bagette and wine for dinner, musli yogurt and banana for breakfast.

All museums and sights are closed on Mondays, so we hope to bike copenhagen with Mike and maybe a harbor tour tomorrow.

I'm having some serious bad hair days here due to non-compatibility of electric-based hair control devices.

For those who know me, I've had Nescafe instant coffee and drank a few different non-IPA pints of non- Oregon beer.  I hated neither.  The earth still turns.  Thanks for reading. :)

post-punk alt little mermaid.

look, a Danish Fire truck!  

The thinker, he still thinks in Copenhagen.