More pictures from the trip to Denmark and Sweden.
One of the many canals within Copenhagen, where one would frequently see swans trodding along:
In what quickly ended up as one of my favorite neighborhoods of Copenhagen, called Slotsholmen, Christiansborg Palace, with a statue of Christian VI atop his horse:
Nearby, a very beautiful building, the Danish Stock Exchange building:
My future car:
Within another neighborhood I fell in love with, called Strøget, this fountain sat in the middle of one of the squares:
We went to Karen Blixen's house (a.k.a. Isak Dinesen), now a tourist attraction just north of Copenhagen; towards the end of her life, realizing her failing health and approaching demise, Blixen did all but plan her own funeral, detailed her living will, and specified that her house remain precisely the same and practically untouched. Everything inside her house has remained exactly as she left it before her death in the early 1960's, with the exception of flowers and probably routine dusting. Unfortunately, they forbade photography inside of her house.
She requested a burial site atop a hill, some 1/2 mile's hike beneath this impressive tree. On her gravestone prints nothing, except her name:
Thinking of graves, Chava took me to Assistens Kirkegaard, placed almost precisely in the middle of Copenhagen in the Nørrebro district, an immense cemetery where graves date from centuries ago to modern times, also where many notable individuals lie; I managed to get pictures of most I wanted to see, but, unfortunately, we could not find Niels Bohr's grave in time.
Søren Kierkegaard's grave:
The late reggae singer's, Natasja Saad's, grave:
A strikingly attractive young woman standing next to Hans Christian Andersen's grave:
Late poet's, Dan Turèll's, grave:
Kronborg Castle, where Shakespeare furthermore immortalized as the place where Hamlet lived, and where he actually never visited (ironic, eh?):
Closer up, on another side:
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