Summer 2005 (26-28 August) - Copenhagen (Denmark)
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The Hard Rock Cafe outside Tivoli Gardens, Inner City, Copenhagen.

Frihedstøtten (The Pillar of Freedom), Inner City, Copenhagen - it was built in honor of the Kings abolition of adscription and thus enabling farmers to move away from a farmstead. Again, it's masonic.

Bikes outside of Central Station, Inner City, Copenhagen.

Bikes outside of Central Station, Inner City, Copenhagen.

The Triumphal Arch, Vesterbro, Copenhagen - created by the artist Peter Abelin in 1991.

Vesterbros Torv, Vesterbro, Copenhagen - Elias Church, which takes its inspiration from the Middle Ages but was actually built in 1908, is in the center of the photo.

A theatre on Vesterbrogade, Vesterbro, Copenhagen.

A miniature replica of Copenhagen ca. 1600's in Vesterbro.

The replica again, Vesterbro, Copenhagen.

The replica again, Vesterbro, Copenhagen - it reminds me a little of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.

The Carlsberg Silo as seen from Vesterbrogade, Vesterbro, Copenhagen - it used to house barley for the Carlsberg brewery, now it houses a few of the cities very wealthy individuals.

Humleby, Vesterbro, Copenhagen - these townhouses used to house the workers for the Carlsberg brewery.

Humleby, Vesterbro, Copenhagen - the area takes its name from "humle" (hops).

Humleby, Vesterbro, Copenhagen.

The Carlsberg Brewery, Vesterbro, Copenhagen - this historic gate was built in 1901.

The Carlsberg Brewery, Vesterbro, Copenhagen.

The Carlsberg Brewery, Vesterbro, Copenhagen.

The Carlsberg Brewery, Vesterbro, Copenhagen - the second gate is supported on the backs of some very large and drunken-looking elephants.

The Carlsberg Brewery, Vesterbro, Copenhagen - the late brewer Carl and his wife Otillia look down on people passing through the gate.

The Carlsberg Brewery, Vesterbro, Copenhagen - a drunken-looking elephant.

The statue of Danish golden age poet Adam Oehlenschlager in Søndermarken, Frederiksberg.

The grave of Carl Theodor Dreyer behind Frederiksberg Kirke, Frederiksberg - Dreyer directed the famous silent film 'Jeanne d'Arc'.

Another grave in the Frederiksberg Kirke graveyard, Frederiksberg.

A building along Frederiksberg Alle, Frederiksberg.

Tycho Brahe Planetarium, Frederiksberg - it was built in 1989 and named after the famous Danish astronomer.

Søpavillonen, between Inner City, Copenhagen and Frederiksberg - originally an ice-skating pavilion, it is now a popular nightclub.

Hans Christian Andersen's grave in Assistens Kirkegard, Nørrebro, Copenhagen.

Søren Kierkegaard's grave in Assistens Kirkegard, Nørrebro, Copenhagen.

A grave in Assistens Kirkegard, Nørrebro, Copenhagen - Assistens Kirkegard was originally a lower class graveyard until it became fashionable to have a nice plot there in the 18th century.

A building just outside of Assistens Kirkegard, Nørrebro, Copenhagen.

A wind farm on the Danish coast, on the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Germany.

A look back at the Danish coast, on the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Germany.

The Baltic Sea between Denmark and Germany.

A gull floats above the ferry from Denmark to Germany.

The Copenhagen-Hamburg train on board the ferry, on the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Germany.


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