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Huldra emerges from the forest to dance next to Kjosfossen Falls
On the Noway in a Nutshell tour, in the summer anyway, tourists get to experience a Huldra. She appears near Kjosfossen Falls, does a dance, and then disappears into the forest once again.
Over on my other blog, I’m posting a week’s worth of photos from a late October trip down the Historic Columbia River Highway in Northern Oregon. If you are interested, you can check it out by clicking here.
Bergen's Bryggen (wharf)
Bryggen, in Bergen, Norway, is a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site. Look closely and you’ll see that each building is tipping in a slightly different way. Some of the buildings in this area are hundreds of years old. Most have burned down once or more over the years and then been rebuilt in basically the original style. Today’s photo shows just three of the buildings, but there are actually more than a dozen lined up in a row like this.
Christiania sign
My prior posts on Christiania are some of the most frequently visited on the blog. I’m not sure why. In any event, it took me a while to revisit Christiania. I didn’t end up going until my last week in Copenhagen, three years after my first encounter with the place.
Christiania graffiti
The guidebooks all say go visit Christiania, but nearly everyone that does check out Christiania (as a tourist not looking for pot) is disappointed. The place is pretty ugly and a bit scary when you enter through the main entrance. However, if you keep going there are some interesting and even beautiful things to see.
Christiania flower garden
I’ll cover the new marijuana scene (which is very different than three years ago) in a future entry.
F.C. København scores a goal against Odense
My second trip to an FCK soccer game was even better than the first. This time we sat in a more serious and crowded part of the stadium.
The weather was really poor, but it wasn’t wet, windy, or cold once we got inside Parken in Copenhagen. It was wet, windy, and cold on the outside of the stadium, and it took us nearly an hour to get in with all of the security. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced such a full pat-down before.
When we went to purchase tickets, we were asked if we wanted to sit with the regulars or the “crazy people.” Of course, we went for the crazy people. So when the match began and our section sat there drinking their beers and smoking their pot it seemed like the section of regulars were far more crazy. We commented to each other on this and the guy in front of us must have heard. After the first half, he stood up and told us that the second half would be a whole different story. He then left, never to return.
A crane takes flight over one of Copenhagen's lakes
I spotted this bird taking flight over Peblinge Sø (Student Lake) the other evening. You can see some of Copenhagen’s buildings reflected in the water.