(The full reports went to Facebook, including lots of photos, with captions on every one. Copy-pasted here are just the daily summaries.)
Copenhagen! We’ll be here for six days, hanging and doing with friends Scott and Meredith, including a daytrip across the Øresund* to Malmö (Sweden) and a daytrip north into the countryside for castles ‘n sh-t. Then to Germany for a quick visit with family. Go!
I’ll just go ahead and apologize now for not properly using the slash-O character (Ø/ø) in these updates. I may or may not figure out how to do that on my keyboard. EDIT: OK editing them in now via crude copy-paste …
Copenhagen day 1, a 30-hour day with:
- ATL airport art
- Artemis on the fly
- a decently fun movie about Keith Jarrett
- two surprises on the airplane (one good, one bad)
- dealing with another bad surprise
- powering through the (always) epic first day’s jetlag by hustling around town in spite of desperately wanting sleep
Copenhagen day 2:
- a guided tour of the Rundetaarn (Round Tower) and review of famous Danish scientists
- smørrebrød (open face sandwich) for lunch
- design museum
- fabulous dinner at Pluto, and drinks at groovy jazz bar Bird
Copenhagen day 3: daytrip to Malmö Sweden!
- excellent basic lunch
- central square w/ monarchy
- lots of public art including one questionable sculpture
- glorious old pharmacy
- hi Nik
- local fauna
- dinner at Bullen
- The Necks in a black box space
- endless navigation of public transit with only one (minor) error so far
Copenhagen day 4:
- Cisternerne and Marina Abramovic
- Carlsberg Brewery
- our hotel, with pile driving next door
- drinks, dinner and a black diamond
- The Necks in a gloriously weird church
Copenhagen day 5; more photos this time, I know, but it was photogenic…
- roadtrip day! taking trains and attempting three stops: castle+bonus, art museum, castle
- maritime museum built into (around!) an old drydock
- Kronborg castle in Helsingor, and poor Yorick
- again with the pollarding
- Louisiana art museum: Serra, Yusama, Calle, et al(le)
- and at this point we bailed on the second castle (would have been Frederiksborg)
- fabulous dinner, a little too fab
Copenhagen day 6, last chance for everything!
- some scenes from our hotel
- Museum of Danish Resistance
- short ferry ride and a surprise cannon salute
- Copenhagen Contemporary incl James Turrell WOW
- Museum of Natural History and their colossal meteorite
- Rosenborg Castle and the surrounding gardens
- Tour de France was here, hmmmm
- an akvavit kiss-off
Europe trip days 7 and 8:
- leaving Copenhagen and travel chaos / stress
- flying over Sweden and Germany
- meeting up with family in Munich
- bees, peacocks, dogs
- a quick stroll through Munich center
- the Haus der Kunst
- Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke
- drunken hordes and late night transit
Europe trip days 9, 10, 11 and 12:
- hanging with family in Munich
- train to Mannheim, rental car, autobahn
- stork center, surprise!
- rural wine town of Birkweiler with family
- historic city of Worms, site of Martin Luther’s trial over 500 years ago
- Oppenheim ossuary and cathedral
- brief hang with family in Mainz
- more air travel chaos, with another debacle avoided by the narrowest of margins