Ja, in Copenhagen

That's not Elaine in Seinfeld and not a photo, either.

Cutest here. I took a trip to Copenhagen this last week with my friend, Linda and son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter who was already in school here for the semester and was just getting out. Never having been to Copenhagen, I had no expectations other than what little I read on-line. It was a wonderful place to go!

Of all the things we saw and did including a fab food tour, Tivoli amusement park, some wonderful Scandinavian meals, a tiny bit of shopping, although it didn’t seem that way to the aforementioned son, an informative canal ride, the trip to the Louisiana museum in Humlebæk was probably the most notable.

It was a short train ride from Copenhagen and less than a mile walk to the museum and its beautiful grounds, the first four shots below. What made it especially noteworthy to me was it introduced me to a contemporary artist, Robert Longo, I did not know, and who turned out to be a very famous American artist who mostly does charcoal renderings of immense scale. The scale is hard to tell looking at the photos but do hit the slide key  > to see what look like photographs but are in fact charcoal drawings.

His content ranged from dance contortions to student demonstrations in Gaza and 9/11 to the Wailing Wall or folding up a super-size flag,and while there were many others, these were the most fascinating to me. If you’d like to know more about this  now New Yorker,  there is a really informative movie where he covers his topics and inspiration, his methodology, and his politics on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gO6lG_qL3v8.

If you read all this, tak.   That is Danish for thank you in one of the world‘s worst languages to learn. That is also pretty much the extent of what I learned other than good morning: god morgen. I normally pronounced that incorrectly, like every other word, I tried. Danes are very polite, smiled, and spoke back to me in English.

When you're proud of your water . . . And most canals there are swimmable!