Copenhagen

It’s been quite the week! Kelsey knows that I enjoy modern art and she happened to get a recommendation from one of the surgeons she works with for a unique hotel associated with a well known sculpture park in Skåne County, Sweden. So last Wednesday, the four of us headed off in a rental car over the Øresund bridge to the Wanås (pronounced Vanoos) Art Hotel about 2 hours from Copenhagen. The property is private and the owners live in the castle, rebuilt in 1556… Read More »Art, Art, and more Art!

In anticipation of our extended stay here in Copenhagen, I took an architecture class last year entitled “Copenhagen: The Bridge Between Mainland Europe and the Nordic Countries.” Taught by a practicing architect , originally from Italy, with the fabulous name of Pierluigi Serraino, it got me excited about all the amazing architecture I would be exposed to while here, from historic to very modern. Sadly, on April 16, 2024, two weeks before the start of the class, one of the most iconic old buildings in… Read More »A Design Culture

It is a bit of an experiment to stay in one place for six whole weeks so we are feeling our way as we go. Some lessons we have learned so far include that we need to get out of the city every few days, we need to use multiple modes of transport so we aren’t just walking 5-6 hours every day (today we did a bike trip), and we need to do things apart from each other some of the time so we aren’t… Read More »Viking (and other) Ventures

I’m excited that I was able to figure out how to do the Nordic ø on my keyboard so that I could use the Danish spelling of Copenhagen. Small victories! “Havn” means harbor and “Køben” means merchant so København means Merchant’s Harbor and the correct pronunciation is something like “KupinHown.” Six days into my stay in our swishy rental with the endless windows, incredible view of the inner harbor, the Playhouse, and The Kissing Bridge (named for how it separates and comes together, not what… Read More »København: Nordic faces in public spaces