Category Denmark
Danish things
There are charming things about Demark that I wouldn’t have known by staying home and googling UNESCO sites. For example: chocolate milk is a perfectly acceptable and abundantly available beverage for adults. Here are some other Danish things: No need for a truck when you can haul it on your bike: Danish folks will transport […]
Well, of course I went to Hamlet’s castle!
Shakespeare called it Elsinore, but he never actually visited the real life Kronberg Castle in Helsingør. Some actors from his company performed there, then must have told him about it, and he used that for the setting of Hamlet. The dude is King Frederick II and here is is with his bride (and first cousin—eww!) […]
Hot Liver and Honey Cake Picnic at the Moravian Church of Christiansfeld, Denmark
Two parallel streets with a church in the center: that’s plan of Christiansfeld. This is the planned city of the Moravian religion in Southern Denmark. Moravianism is an early form of Protestantism out of Bohemia. You know these Protestants aren’t going for fancy—what you get here in Christiansfeld is symmetry, order and pruned trees. And […]
Picnic at the Cathedral 