The links below will take you to special views of Denmark few tourists ever see.
Due to a worsening problem since the Gather upgrade, with uploadng videos and images, the links below go to several short 1 to 2 minute translated videos I have uploaded at youtube. Some weeks of attempting to upload images and videos to gather have mostly failed.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=n2CB7cj5eDM: 2 minutes. An Afternoon with Denmark's Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik. With an outdoor presentation by the Royal Danish Ballet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sssZplt36Dk 2 minutes. Suburbian Copenhagen block party, with translated interview with artist.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dDxzOVtR07w 1 minute.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=BtRWn1bYBxU 2 minutes. The botanical beauty of Frederiksberg Garden. Includes some macrovideography.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_pQCijNDP_A 2 minutes. The birds of Denmark
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xMIJQD4K5BU 2 minutes. Carnival dancing in open streets, at a sort of Copenhagen block party.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BCRTxQrYYss 50 seconds. Christianshavn canal (Copenhagen).
More videos will follow this summer. I will try to get to the Rebild Festival on July 4th, which historically is the largest celebration of the US Independence outside of America. For an article I wrote on that event while a DC journalist, please go to
http://www.worldandi.com/specialreport/1995/july/Sa13320.htm
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Denmark seems a very civilized place to live--too bad it is so cold so much of the year. Wonder why we can't seem to maintain such a high degree of civilization here? Is it the higher temperature? Police statistics point out that violent behavior is somehow linked to hot weather.
The Catholic Church asked me as an anthropologist to write a short, English-as-a-second language book on Denmark's history and culture (asking me to focus a bit too much on Catholicism for my taste, but felt ok with that since the book is used by foreign clergy coming to Denmark), but I managed to induce it with reality. It can be found on the Internet under my name and the "Kingdom of Denmark." The book had a lot of pictures. I can't remember if the Internet file includes those images.
Denmark became a kingdom over a 1000 years ago, variously in unison with Norway & Sweden, and lost finally Iceland during the Nazi Occupation in 1942, and lost a deal of what is now North Germany also. So now, aside from Greenland, Denmark is one of Europe's smallest nations. Greenland is working hard via its indigenous culture to gain autonomy. That is a huge debate now in Denmark since Greenland's natural resources are becoming increasingly available to exploitation with the significant ice melt of the past ten years through global warming, and Greenland now can grow crops it couldn't a couple of decades ago, and feels itself more independent from Denmark's shipments.
Hopefully, somebody's listening...
The beer is better than the food though, ha ha. Just teasing... sort of *wink*, LOL.
Those are some neat videos that brought back some memories, thanks.
Unless you like a heavy potato diet or pickled herring, Danish cuisine can be a bit intimidating. King Christian IV, the Danish builder king who transformed 16th century Copenhagen and much of Denmark architecturally and culturally into a world educational and trade center, also has the fame of having written thousands of letters, most either professing his love for God or good beer recipes.
There is nothing like a good Danish beer. Tuborg and Carlsberg is just the tip of the iceberg.
Bert, there is a debate now in Copenhagen, about how to build some skyscrapers without damaging the old inner city's architectural feel.
"Køben" translates to "trade/buy." and "havn" translates to "port." Copenhagen literally means, the Port of Trade.
Thanks Elizabeth. Danish picked herring took a blow after Chernobyl. The ecosystem and food chain of those little fish in our coastal waters work such that a lot of the fallout from Chernobyl became concentrated in our sild, or as Americans call the swimmer, herring. And that's no red herring.
Thanks Bent for letting me experience your beautiful country.
Love you.
This is so fabulous! Thank you so much for sharing the Denmark you love with the rest of us!
Am thrilled to visit luckily as beautifully you want us to enjoy Bent !!!
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