Journal
Europe 2003


#46 (3)
Thatched houses in Farum, northwest of Copenhagen. Museum with items from old-fashioned grocery stores. Mormor in wheel chair, and Hanne by the base of the stairs.


#47 (4)
Main house of farm in Farum, near Mormor's nursing home. The gable of one of the wings can be seen to the left of the main house.


#48 (2)
Hanne standing and Mormor sitting on Mormor's patio outside her room at the nursing home for the blind, named Solgaven


#49 (3)
Idyllic farm house with thatched roof in Farum, near Mormor's nursing home. It's a chestnut tree with flowers in thebackground.


#50 (5)
Hanne at Hostrups Have 8 in Copenhagen, the apartment complex where Mormor and Morfar lived when Kevin and Collin were children. In the background behind the greenery is a park, a small soccer field and a playground for children.


#51 (4)
The north entrance at Rolighedsvej to the Hostrups Have apt. complex where Mormor and Morfar lived, when Kevin and Collin were children. Notice the golden pretzel with crown, mounted on the wall in the background. It's the boys' favorite bakery. A Carlsberg beer truck is making a local delivery.


#52 (4)
Outline of the Copenhagen City Hall in a funky afternoon lighting, which leaves the facade in the dark.


#53 (1)
Amager Square in the city of Copenhagen. The sign with 3 wavy lines and the golden crown belongs to the Royal Danish Porcelain shop. The steeple is from Nikolaj Church. The building straight ahead is from the Renaissance approx. 1650.


#54 (1)
Amager Square in the city of Copenhagen. A view toward Christiansborg, the Danish parliament, with the green roof (oxidized copper) in the background. The Stork fountain in the foreground.


#55 (2)
Kongens Nytorv, another famous square in Copenhagen. When students graduate from the college preparatory schools in late May, early June, they can be seen, wearing their white graduation caps, holding hands, while "dancing" and singing around the horse/rider sculpture in the center. That's an annual tradition.


#56 (1)
Nyhavn, part of the Copenhagen harbor, with an anchor in memory of sailors lost at sea. The picturesque houses have many restaurants with tables on the sidewalk.


#57 (2)
Copenhagen Harbor. The ship, which sails between Copenhagen and Oslo on a daily basis.


#58 (2)
Amalienborg Castle, the residence of Margrethe II, queen of Denmark.  Frederik's Church is in the background. Way to the right is one of the Queen's guards wearing his black bearskin cap. The red, skinny houses are for the guards on rainy days.  The Danish population and traffic is allowed on the square.


#59 (2)
Different view of Amalienborg Castle, the Queen's residence in Copenhagen. Behind the statue and the fountain is an opera house under construction at the other side of the harbor.


#60 (2)
Statue of King Christian X, the paternal grandfather of the present Queen Margrethe II, just as he's remembered by the Danes. This statue is a St. Anna Square in Copenhagen, not far from Amalienborg Castle. During the German occupation of Denmark 1940-45 Christian IX, king of Denmark at the time, rode out through the streets of Copenhagen every day with total disregard for any danger or threat presented by the German occupation forces. For this he was held in high regard by the population.


#61 (1)
One of the canals in Copenhagen (part of the old city moats) with the Copenhagen Stock Exchange in the background. It's the low building with green, oxidized copper roof and the unusual spire made up of 3 twisted dragon tails, another building from approx. 1648.


#62 (4)
Scene of Furesø, a lake near Mormor's nursing home.


#63 (1)
Mormor and Hanne in Dyrehaven, a forest north of Copenhagen, where we went for a walk in the woods after having had lunch at the same restaurant, Peter Liep, where Mormor and Morfar had their first date over 60 years ago. 


#64 (1)
The front of Mormor's residence, Solgaven, with the main entrance (red edge), parking area and some of the residents' apartments to the left of the main entrance.


#65 (3)
Lilac bushes at Mormor's residence.  The darker flowers, top left, have not started blooming fully yet.


#66 (4)
Lilac bushes at Mormor's residence.


#67 (2)
Pale and dark blooming lilacs near Mormor's residence.


#68 (3)
Rhododendrons in private yards bordering on the path by Furesøen Lake.


#69 (5)
View of pond and farm in Farum, near Mormor's residence.


#70 (3) cut
Hanne's 60th birthday, May 29, 2003.  Childhood friends, Lis and Bent (sister and brother), have arrived from Randers and Ebeltoft for birthday gathering.  They've joined Mormor on her patio.


#71 (3) cut
Hanne's 60th birthday, May 29, 2003.  Lis, her husband Lars, their youngest daughter Birthe, her brother Bent with Kevin and Hanne on Mormor's patio.


#72 (1)
Childhood friends, Lis and brother Bent, with Lis's husband, Lars, and their youngest daughter Birthe plus Kevin and Hanne on Mormor's patio on Hanne's 60th birthday, May 29, 2003.


#73 (1)
At the restaurant Tante Maren in Farum for Hanne's 60th birthday luncheon on May 29, 2003.  From left to right:  Cousin Inge, Mormor, Hanne, childhood friend Anne-Katrine and her husband Max.  On other side of table from left:  Lars, back of school friend Jytte with husband Peter and Bent in blue shirt.


#74 (1)
From right:  Birthe in black top, Leif (cousin Kurt's son) in light blue top, friend Anni, across the table cousing Kurt and his wife Rita, friend Jytte's daughter Ditte with her boyfriend Simon.


#75 (2)
From right to left:  Birthe, Leif, Anni, Kurt, Rita, Simon and Ditte.


#76 (1) cut
Profile of cousin Inge on right.  On left side of table from front to back:  School friend Jytte, her husband Peter, childhood friend Lis with her husband Lars.


#77 (1)
From left to right:  Childhood friend Bent, school friend Jytte, her husband Peter, childhood friend Lis with her husband Lars.


#78 (1)
Kevin and cousin Kurt's daughter Lone.


#79 (2)
Flowers from Hanne's 60th birthday party on May 29, 2003.


#80 (1)
Hanne on her 60th birthday, May 29, 2003, on Mormor's patio with birthday flowers and lovely, new gift, namely a Georg Jensen light blue daisy broche.


#81 (3)
Rhododendrons in front yard in Farum


#82 (2)
Rhododendrons in front yard in Farum


#83 (3)
Rhododendrons in front yard in Farum

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