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Copenhagen: Final Days

      Andrew and I are waiting for our flight from LAX to Seattle- the last leg in a 20 hour journey back from Copenhagen.  The end of my stay in Denmark was packed with trips, parties, and lots of bittersweet

Copenhagen: Final Days

      Andrew and I are waiting for our flight from LAX to Seattle- the last leg in a 20 hour journey back from Copenhagen.  The end of my stay in Denmark was packed with trips, parties, and lots of bittersweet

Lucy visits Copenhagen

Not the greatest photo, but a great weekend… Friends since third grade living in Europe united in Copenhagen!

Lucy visits Copenhagen

Not the greatest photo, but a great weekend… Friends since third grade living in Europe united in Copenhagen!

happy cinnamon birthday

Should you be unmarried on your 25th birthday in Denmark, tradition demands that your party guests give you cinnamon in some form.  A couple of weeks ago Nicholas, a friend from work, turned 25 and I witnessed a rather extreme

happy cinnamon birthday

Should you be unmarried on your 25th birthday in Denmark, tradition demands that your party guests give you cinnamon in some form.  A couple of weeks ago Nicholas, a friend from work, turned 25 and I witnessed a rather extreme

hold hil højre

Some might call it soft despotism, but between socialized health care, regulations that restrict parental naming rights (Blanket & Apple would not make the cut) and a law that forbids face and hand tattoos, it’s clear that the Danish legal

hold hil højre

Some might call it soft despotism, but between socialized health care, regulations that restrict parental naming rights (Blanket & Apple would not make the cut) and a law that forbids face and hand tattoos, it’s clear that the Danish legal

Houses at Vilvordeparken

In school, I often drift away from the task of really developing a facade.  There are diagrammatic tricks employed: this is solid, this is void, this is screen, composed according to the needs of the interior space.  This sounds sensible

Houses at Vilvordeparken

In school, I often drift away from the task of really developing a facade.  There are diagrammatic tricks employed: this is solid, this is void, this is screen, composed according to the needs of the interior space.  This sounds sensible

Vilhelm Hammershøi (painter, 1864-1916) & lunch at Ordupgaard

There’s a room in the old portion of Ordupgaard largely dedicated to the works of Danish painter, Vilhelm Hammershøi.  More likely than not, I’ve probably seen his work elsewhere but perhaps I failed to notice it.   The sort of melancholy serenity

Vilhelm Hammershøi (painter, 1864-1916) & lunch at Ordupgaard

There’s a room in the old portion of Ordupgaard largely dedicated to the works of Danish painter, Vilhelm Hammershøi.  More likely than not, I’ve probably seen his work elsewhere but perhaps I failed to notice it.   The sort of melancholy serenity

Bellevue Strandpark & Arne Jacobsen

A fifteen minute train ride from the center of Copenhagen brought us to Klampenborg and the Bellevue Strandpark.  All of the facilities at the park were designed by a 30-year-old Arne Jacobsen in 1932.  I was drawn out onto a

Bellevue Strandpark & Arne Jacobsen

A fifteen minute train ride from the center of Copenhagen brought us to Klampenborg and the Bellevue Strandpark.  All of the facilities at the park were designed by a 30-year-old Arne Jacobsen in 1932.  I was drawn out onto a