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| Little Morton Hall |
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| Biddulph Hall-rack of those chimneys connects to a fireplace! |
Farewell England and hello Denmark. We are on a Road Scholar tour entitled Four Nordic Capitals which includes Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki. They are quite insistent that Finland is not Scandinavian but Nordic. It all seems to have to do with language and geography . . . Enough said.
Copenhagen is a city of spires and towers, domes and cobbles, buildings from the 1500's and modern architecture, wide pedestrianized streets, narrow lanes and canals, castles and churches and a monarchy.
Editing and writing on a phone is awkward to say the least. I believe you will be seeing captioned photos and little else.
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| Tivoli Gardens it is and always has been an amusement park |
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| Believe this is a Danish castle where the crown jewels reside |
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| We had a lunch of open faced Danish sandwiches |
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| The little mermaid. The original story is much darker than Disney |
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| Garbage Incinerator with a climbing wall, ski slope, gardens, hiking paths, I believe a restaurant and elevator to the top. Talk about multi functional |
I have pretty much given up on the history. The Danes have conquered the Swedes and visa versa. They have married to preserve and or destroy kingdoms. Traded princes and princesses when they ran out of family. Norway is independent and non aligned, kinda. And everyone has royal families with palaces and jewels.
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| Elsinore Castle of Hamlet fame |
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