Archive for May, 2007

All the greats are in here.

"Chapels are sacred places; they are the spiritual heart of every airport that has one. They follow in the mediaval tradition of Way Stations, welcoming visitors on their way to their destinations." More.
FYI, the Lady of the Skies is Mary. She ascended bodily into heaven, apparently borne by a propeller.

From my stopover in Amsterdam.

Ø: "In Danish (and the more conservative Riksmål Norwegian) spelling, ø is a word and means 'island'." More.

No doubt this refers to Carlsberg's Elephant beer and not to the Danish Order of the Elephant. Everyone in Copenhagen is elephant-mad.

not storks. cranes. this is on Strøget, near Hojbro Plads.

The entrance to a Chinese (Kinesisk) restaurant on Strøget.

Pretty sure this was along the Vester Voldgade, looking across the square towards Tivoli gardens.
The bikes are covered in advertisements, have little maps attached to the handlebars and are free to ride.

The central motif is more or less the Coat of Arms / seal of the city of Copenhagen. It depicts the castle built by Bishop Absalon in 1167 which marked the founding of the city.

Pretty sure that's Tivoli. The body of water is the Peblingesø.

The new terra incognita.

The soundtrack of my recent european tour. This must be about as mathy as they come.

Leah's totally right. The Gefion Fountain should rightly be the piece of decorative Copenhagen that gets decapitated every other week, instead of that pissant little mermaid thingy. Section 5 of the Ynglinga saga has more on Gefion.

This song has been stuck in my head for approximately 2 and a half years. Plus supermodels and explosions.