Copenhagen…

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Jul 052010
 

Click on each picture for trip details.

Scandinavia Beckons…check out our route.

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Jun 122010
 


We fly into Copenhagen on June 30th and will spend three days exploring. We then rent a car and head north.

Some of the high points of our visit  to the World Heritage and Michelin Green Book Sites are detailed by clicking on the Missing Mermaid.

Copenhagen's Missing Mermaid...visiting Shanghai

Kristin Captures Historic Norway

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Jun 012010
 

I began reading Kristin Lavransdatter in preparation for our trip to Scandinavia. This relatively new English translation by Tina Lunnally and Brad Leithauser makes this exquisite and engaging tale so relavent and gripping I hate to see it end. Apparently this translation is a vast improvement upon the original version which seemed an archaic and stilted Middle English affectation popular in the 1950s in the US.
It is a pleasure to see, that after a lapse of 70 years, Sigrid Undset books are again being read worldwide, by new generations of readers. Kristin will remain one of my favorite literary characters ranked up with Natasha Rostova.
(click on the book cover for more fascinating detail.)

More Chuily

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May 102010
 

More Chuily sculptures gleaming against the stark concrete Salk Institute walls.  At the time of construction the damp concrete was imprinted with plywood so that the outer walls are ingrained.  The teak window and door framing has also grayed over fifty years.  The entire edifice jutting out toward the Pacific ocean has such a parallel feeling to Murano and Venice in  misty fog.  Chuily must have felt this also as he placed the small fishing skiff and filled to overflowing with the colorful “fishing floats.” The entire installation is so perfect one can’t help but wish for permenance.  All but one or two of the sculptures will move on turning the setting back to the scientists and researchers.

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