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Europe » Denmark » Region Sjælland » Roskilde July 20th 2003

On Saturday Beng and I went out for one last day of expoloration (for me, at least) of Copenhagen. Fist stop was back at the Christianborg Palace to checkout the basment wich contanains pieces of the 2 previous castles and 2 previous palace that haev stood on that point. mad cool, but dark. The weather was perfect, and after another fanatastic sandwich of smoked salmon and avacado we headed to Christianhaven (a neighborhood on the other side of the water) and climbed a church tower with the spiral stairs on the outside of the builidng. A neat twist you could say. I had to go to Christinia, as social expereiment dating from the 1960's where a bunch of hippies were squatters and mad a self suffienct community out of it. Lots of hash being sold on ... read more

Europe » Denmark » Region Sjælland » Roskilde July 10th 2003

After meeting so many people who had been to the Roskilde festival I was destined to go there. Also and more importantly my friend Lizette lived there. I met Lizette in Xela, Guatemala at the Spanish school. The month or so around the time I had spent in Guatemala had been some of the best times of my life. Lizette was one of the people that made it so good and I was really looking forward to seeing her again. There is always some trepidation when meeting a friend again - especially when it's a friend that you've only known in one set of circumstances and in this case one country. But it was great - we got on really well, which I had known we would all along. So Roskilde, from the tourist perspective. Charming ... read more
Building the Longboat
The Harbour
Inside the Cathederal




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