We almost didn’t go to the Botanical Garden. The palm house is being restored, and it was too early in the season for their to be very much outside, right? But we ran into a cold and rainy day, and decided to chance the palm house. While it is being worked on, it is still […]
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Thomas Dambo first came to my attention when he installed six trolls at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden. Once I knew we were going to Denmark, I started marking the nearby trolls to see what we’d be able to find. There are three trolls currently in Copenhagen. The first troll turned out to be in
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I’m doing a separate entry for Christiansborg Slot because I ended up completely geeking out over their tapestry display, and took so many pictures they need their own post. Christiansborg was the royal palace, but the royal family has decamped to Amalienborg. Christiansborg is now the official home of the parliament and the judiciary. The
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Our second day trip was out to Roskilde. (Our timing on those was due to wanting to stay in Copenhagen on the day of the Hans Zimmer concert, and the fact that our friend K came in from London for the days around that to see us and come to the concert. We may have
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Our first day trip was to Helsignor, Elsinore in English. It’s the home of Kronborg Slot, which was Shakespeare’s inspiration for Hamlet’s castle, but as you can imagine, it’s really something fairly different. Helsingor sits on the Oresund, the strait between Denmark and Sweden, at its narrowest point. There used to be a toll charged
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We’re back from a week and couple days in Denmark. We planned the trip around Han Zimmer’s current tour, which is why we chose March. And I will say, the concert was amazing. He was clearly just so pleased to be there playing music with his musical family, and sharing that with us in the
Holyrood sits at the bottom of the Royal Mile, with fantastic views of Arthur’s Seat (if you look closely at the photo with the Abbey and Arthur’s seat, you can see the people on the summit.) It’s the King’s official residence in Scotland. We did tour the inside (no pictures allowed), which is pretty much
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On our way back down to Edinburgh, we stopped at a few places not too far from the A9/M9. The first was Huntingtower Castle. We actually got their before opening (weren’t paying enough attention to the hours), but we ran into the lone staff member, and she was more than happy to let us in,
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