Note: title is at its cleverest when sung to the South Pacific show tune by a similar name....
Copenhagen for Easter. It was a grand trip to a great city, but Easter bonnets were soggy and windblown as Old Man Winter decided he was not yet quite finished with winter. Coats, gloves, and hats were definitely in order...photos and stories to follow.
Four days in Denmark and lots of reading about the nation, its history, and culture quickly reminded me that this nation has produced quite a few impressive people. Taking the Vikings out of the mix for the moment (and certainly an impressive lot they were), Danish poets, artists, writers, architects, philosophers, and their achievements abound. A few for the record books:
* Karen Blixen
* Hans Christian Andersen
* Georg Jensen
* Peter Hoeg
* Soren Kierkegaard
* Absalom (yea, that Absalom!)
* Arne Jacobsen
* Carl Jacobsen (OK, a beer baron can certainly make the list after all the philanthropic activities he was involved in)
* Theodor Dreyer
* Lars von Trier
Surely you know most of these?
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