20 October 2010
bike trip to dyrehaven (elkpark)
on saturday carsten, merlin, elisa, their friend daniel and i went on a bike trip...we went north of copenhagen, along a street called strandvej, which means beach way. the road lives up to its name--not so much in the beach sense--it follows the coastline and the oresund (and sweden) are visible most of the way. we made several stops and detours--one to charlottelund, another to ermitagen castle, an unsuccessful apple pie pitstop at raadvad, and finally a snack (warm!) at strandmoellerkro. (kro = pub/local restaraunt..) along the way back we stopped to pick up groceries for a thai dinner at my place in taarnby. (and pecan pie with the pecans i found at the shop on stroget during kulturnatten)
18 October 2010
kulturnatten
A Night of Culture in Copenhagen
On October 15th, a total of more than 200 museums, churches, exhibition halls, galleries, political institutions, and other venues all over the city will open their doors, reflecting the broad cultural landscape of Copenhagen. Night of Culture has been an annual Copenhagen event siden 1993
Last year, I attended the same event when I was visiting Dk in October. It is a truly special night---crowded to the point of annoyance--with an extra 60K people in Copenhagen (and surrounding neighborhoods) for the night. With a button and ticket you get free transportation (bus, train, metro) for the entire night. The various ministries, military, police, museums, libraries, universities, etc etc all over the city contribute to the events. There were around 500 this year.
14 October 2010
halloween: sharing North American traditions in Danmark =)
last night we had a dinner party complete with pumpkin carving with the internationals. 2 canadians, 2 americans, a newzealander, german, french, and dane were present. we followed the home-made pizza (all varieties of pesto, chicken, sun-dried tomato, spinach, buffalo mozzarella) with PUMPKIN spice pancakes and cinnamon apples. YUMMY.
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| Carsten making chicken... |
Vincent is from France, so pumpkin carving was a decidedly new tradition for him. He was an eager participant though =) It was hard to explain why you have to carve out all the insides, and what the "good" meat is...I had never really thought about how intrinsic these ideas are to us.
Carving out the insides...
Yummy. Maybe you should be a zombie for halloween?
04 October 2010
i thought denmark was flat?
Møns Klint
faculty of science trip to the first danish national park--a calcium carbonate cliff face.
| The formation of the Cliff |
| Approx. 70 million years ago there was a sea where Denmark is today. The sea was warm, and many different animals and microscopic algae lived there. The algae had a shell of chalk. The shells were over the years deposited into a thick layer of chalk at the bottom of the sea. Over the next many years life in the Cretaceous Sea gradually vanished: the dinosaurs became extinct, the continents rose, and mountains were created and eroded again. The old chalk sea bottom rose above the sea, and the chalk emerged before the last glacial age reached Denmark. The ice that the last glacial age brought to Denmark scraped enormous crusts off the old chalk sea bottom. The crusts were 50 m thick and were bent, folded and pressed together as in a gigantic concertina crash and formed Høje Møn. For the last 4,000 years the sea has cut into the eastern coast of Møn forming the Cliff we know today. On average a layer of approx. 20 – 40 cm disappears from the Cliff annually. In about 10,000 years all of Høje Møn will have been eaten away by the sea. http://www.moensklint.dk/default.asp?MenuID=816 |
Olli is apparently 5 years old and liked to climb and destroy things, poke them with sticks, etc. Boys will be boys? (He obviously didn't read the rock slide warning...)
I think there is a firestone layer in here..some kind of geological feature that follows the whole cliff at this depth/height...
Have you ever seen a danish frog? This is my first one--and it always makes me laugh because one of the quirks of the Danish language is the difference between consonants such as G and K or P and B. Because, there is no difference in danish between those letters-at least, not the way they sound. So when a Dane mentions a frog, an american will probably hear: Hey, check out that FROK. :) it's a charming quirk.
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