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| Nancy Daniels | profile | all galleries >> Family 2005 >> December: England, Denmark & Christmas >> England, Denmark and Back >> Copenhagen Scenes | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 Hotel in Copenhagen. Looking back to front desk. We're half way to our room |
 Looking the other way. Our room is at the far end. |
 Trains from our hotel room |
 Robin's favorite boy-hood friend |
 Slowly sinking roof |
 Wires and steeples |
 Vagtparade: Changing of the Royal Guard at the 8-sided square at Amalienborg. |
 Frederiks Kirken (Marble church). Built 1749-1894 |
 Church interior |
 Statues of most important members of the church |
 Important church member collecting holy water in the rain. |
 Important church member watching for pidgeons |
 Don't mess with this important church member |
 Bundled up for a field trip |
 "Don't stop for the pidgeons, kids." |
 "Stay in step & keep colours correct: dark in front, red in back" |
 Barbara, in hood, heads towards our traditional Danish Christmas feast |
 Barbara waiting to eat. (Flowers for a princess.) |
 Finishing schnapps before beginning the feast |
 First table for the six course meal |
 Pleasantly full (not all schnapps) and ready to sight see |
 Ready for night life |
 Barbara rests while Robin fits |
 Street musician being photographed |
 Danish mannequins |
 Denmark, the amber capital of the world |
 All made of amber |
 Women's rights protest |
 Limos at the town hall |
 Fancy dance tonight |
 "Hey, that limo is scratchy." |
 Wind and kite surfers on freezing Miva Bugt sea between Denmark & Sweden |
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 Sweden in the distance |
 Strolling couple |
 Krongborg Slot (Castle of Elsinore): Setting for Hamlet |
 Castle steeple |
 A castle door |
 Castle dungeons |
 Break with Barbara. |
 Mark disapproves |
 Interior of St. Ansgar's Catholic Church. |
 Sad St. Ansgar since only 16 participants were at Sunday Mass. |
 Beautiful carved organ pipes in Vor Frelsers Kirke. (Poor photo, but shown for next photo) |
 Bottom of organ in previous photo |
 Cherubs climbing to the Vor Frelsers Kirke ceiling |
 Zooming out from the cherubs |
 Church kids around the baptismal font |
 More little kids playing with their diapers |
 Turned to gold |
 Church lock box |
 St. Anna Gaard seen from church doors |
 Skt. Alban Kirke: the only Anglican Church in Copenhagen |
 Goddess Gefion was given all earth she could plow, so turned her sons to oxen and ploughed most of country |
 Not a garter snake |
 What's "Uppie" in Danish? |
 Photographer with a flair |
 Being photographed |
 Rental bikes. Everybody bikes in Copenhagen |
 A couple bikers |
 A single biker |
 Bikers discussing important issues while waiting for light to change |
 Biking in any weather |
 Free City of Christiania founded by hippies in 1971 |
 Christiania was at the site of old army barracks |
 Christiana hippies preached a free life & obedience to ecological values |
 A good dose of transgression was found among the Christiania cult members |
 There were about 1,000 hippies at one time |
 Swinging around a court yard at the Royal stables. Note dash cloth is for non-functioning defroster. |
 Shivering Little Mermaid. Made in 1913, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale |
 German boat in Copenhagen harbor |
 Shoreline |
 Sight-seeing is a challenge in this weather, but we'll be back. |
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