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Rating:
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Copenhagen, Denmark
August 30th, 2004
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Arriving in Copenhagen and the VIP treatment continued - my friend
Dale, who was doing his PhD when I worked in Lismore, is now a postdoc
at Carlsberg brewery - nice wicket! He lives there with his Danish
girlfriend Pernille who I also got to know during my time in Lismore.
So of course I snuck along to the Carlsberg staff Friday drinking
session - only problem was that I had a hangover (as you´d
expect having just arrived from Dublin) so I wasn´t in such
fine form. Well anyway it´s probably for the best, so that
the Danish continue to believe that Tasmanian girls are all elegant
and well spoken hehe! Yep you guessed it, while I was in Copenhagen
I couldn´t resist but see the Mary sights. We visited both
the church she was married in and her new pad at the palace, and
girly cooed over her dress that was on display at a museum along
with many other Danish queens´ frocks (out of consideration
for Dale, Pernille and I did that part while he was at work!). Other
highlights of Denmark were checking out the thousand year old viking
ships excavated from the bottom of Roskilde Fjord, strolling the
picture perfect waterfront of Nyhavn, wandering around the beautiful
Kronborg castle at Helsingor (the setting for Shakespeare´s
Hamlet), then heading over the Oresund strait to Sweden, just cos
we could! I also let Dale down a bit by betraying Australia - when
offered Vegemite on toast or more a traditional Danish breakfast
you can guess what I chose; ditto with the squishy or salty liquorice...
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