Showing posts with label Bank Holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bank Holiday. Show all posts

Sunday 26 May 2013

Not Another Bank Holiday?

It seems like we haven't had a Monday to Friday straight run in about six weeks now. Every week there's something. Pentacost, May Day, Random Holiday That No One Understands But We Get A Day Off So Who Cares...you get the gist.

Monday was yet another of those glorious days off, so we made the most of the sunshine, ate brunch at Paludan, my favourite café in Copenhagen (when you can get away from the loud international students ruining your breakfast with self indulgent nonsense, I left the English speaking world for a break from you, kids) , wandered around the Botanic Gardens of the Geological Museum (it was closed, sadly) and went into the Kunst museum. As usual, here's some pictures from my day.

The weirdest/coolest bike

This is the 5th largest meteorite found on earth! Just sitting in the grounds for anyone to touch!



I love the angle of the light, for some reason
I love the massive windows at the Kunst museum overlooking these gardens





I don't have the names of the artists of the above works, but safe to say I learned a little about Danish, Dutch and Belgian art from the 17th-ish century and I like it an infinite amount more than the Western European equivalents. Not that I know anything about art at all, really.

Bank Holidays are a-ok.

Sunday 19 May 2013

These images of tranquility and serenity...




...are not from today. For today it is torrentially raining. 

In other news, Copenhagen is basking in the glow of the Eurovision win. To be honest, I'm suprised so many people made it into town for the marathon this morning, I can image the collective hangover of the country is fierce at this point. 

In addition, the Gumball Rally 2013 took off from Copenhagen this morning! (!!!!) I have been fascinated by it since I was a kid watching it on the Extreme Sports channel, and, cynicism regarding the culture industry and the commercial world aside, I'm really just extremely jealous that I'm not on it. One day.

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I'm going to vegetate for the rest of the day (I've just come back from a 6km walk, I left Leo to continue on alone, enough is enough),  play some Battleship (loves me some Battleship), then watch Into the West tonight. 

Happy Sunday!