Tracking Down the Past: Making Ice Cream (Denmark & Vancouver)
In 2018 Al & I headed to Denmark and Sweden with the idea of meeting up with my aunts and uncles and cousins, and also to track down some of […]
Category Archives: Denmark
Nobody Does Orange like Denmark
In the April of 2018 I went to Mexico and posted a lot of photos featuring orange Mexican walls. In response to a comment on that post I wrote “Mexico […]
A Collection of Reflections from Denmark
A collection of reflections from Denmark. Our first day in Denmark with a reflection of the long Nordic dusk of late May. A stream leading to an old church in […]
The Red & White Danish Flag
Oh, a flag,” my cousin says as she skypes me views around her house, “We’re very proud of our flag – you’ll see it everywhere.” That is so true. In […]
Fashion Design at the Design Museum in Copenhagen
The Design Museum in Copenhagen includes all types of design including some avant-garde fashion design. Bug decor dress. A Japanese-styled dress that is made of straw, a non-typical material and, […]
Old and New Combine in Copenhagen’s Main Library, Denmark
Reflections of clouds and blue sky on the ultramodern library extension (aka the Black Diamond), situated on Copenhagen’s harbour in Denmark. Just inside this library extension is a bank of […]
The Sculpture Park at Silkeborg in Denmark
The first thing that greeted us were these blue chairs sprinkled throughout the trees at the Sculpture Park (KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad) in Silkeborg, Denmark. The next was this blue person […]
Smørrebrød: the Famous Open-Faced Sandwiches of Denmark
A quick Danish lesson: smørre = butter; brød = bread. Smørrebørd (butter-bread) is what they call the famous open-faced sandwiches of Denmark. For my first meal in Copenhagen I had: sandwich […]
Stevns Klint and the ‘Fish Clay’
With an arrow pointing to Stevns Klint on my map, I wrote: I felt that Dad was with me.” We started our explorations in the lighthouse.The view looking down from […]
Ancient Viking Runes from Denmark
The Vikings flourished in Scandinavia between the years 700 AD to 1100, a time known as the Dark Ages (or Medieval) in most of Northern Europe. The Vikings raised stone […]
