We traveled by train across Copenhagen’s island of Zealand to the city of Kalundborg then we boarded a ferry for a two hour crossing to Aarhus. It was lovely sunny weather and we reached the ancient city on the last day of a cultural festival with lots of music being played around the city’s central pedestrian area.
We’ve been to Sweden by ferry, traveled the Danish Riviera, toured the National Museum and taken in a musical extravaganza where we discovered that the Danes love Elvis Presley. If you put eight of his impersonators on the stage simultaneously they love it even more. When he/they sang Elvis’s late tune which begins with Dixie and ends with the Battle Hymn of the Republic the audience wild. We watched this act in an amphitheater called the Cirkus which was built in the late 19th Century for circus performances. When Elvis started singing 500 Danes picked up their napkins and swung them around their heads like whirligigs. It would have made a certain Texan so proud to see that America is still loved….at least its cultural imperialism if not its military interventionism.
More scenes from our trip.
A depiction of the Bishop founder of Copenhagen back before the Danes became pacific .
We’ve got Canada geese Danes have swans.
Sweden’s version of wind power circa 1600. Today’s Danish and Swedish countrysides are littered with wind generators. Just before we left for Denmark Minnesota Power had a shipment of wind generators loaded on board a ship in Aarhus, where we are staying this evening, for transport to Duluth. We passed the blades on the way to the airport in Minneapolis and they were twice the length of a standard semi.
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Having put their wars behind them Denmark and Sweden got together to build one of the world’s longest bridge/tunnel combinations. Swedes covet Danes cheaper alcohol and Dane’s covet the Swede’s cheaper cars. If the Danes stopped taxing their cars and the Swedes stopped taxing their liquor commerce between the two nations would grind to a halt.
