One Year
Last year on this day we woke up in a new city. We pulled wrinkled clothes out of a suitcase and loaded a backpack with a guidebook and map and set off, as tourists, in a place we would eventually call home. Everything was new. We assessed our surroundings with a combination of excitement and […]
Frederiksborg Slot and Other Tourist Spots
It is hard to believe that when we first visited Copenhage in 2003, we only spent about 3 days here. No wonder I hardly remembered it! We am slowly learning that there are unlimited amounts of worthwhile sites here. We are approaching our one-year-anniversary of living in Denmark and last week we saw parts of Copenhagen we […]
Sankt Hans Aften
On the longest day of the year in Copenhagen, the sun rose at about 4:30AM and set at 10PM. Residents of Denmark honor the solstice by celebrating Sankt Hans Aften (Saint John’s Evening). This tradition stretches all the way back to pagan times, and was historically a time when healers gathered medical supplies for the […]
Getting Wonderfully Lost
A simple errand leads to an afternoon of wandering along wet cobblestones through the streets of Copenhagen. Narrow, winding paths, dead-ends and not having a proper address, meant only one thing…Yep, I was lost.
Skåne
Southern Sweden, also known as Skåne, is easily accessible from Copenhagen, so I’m not sure why it took us so long to explore it. Perhaps we knew that the time would come when visitors would request crossing over the Øresund Bridge for a peek at our Swedish neighbors. One of the best things about this […]
India for a Day
As expats, our girls attend a private, international school. Although it would have been interesting to have them attend public, Danish school (where they would be immersed in the Danish language) it just wasn’t logical for us. The academic school system in Denmark is different enough from the US, that if we were to move […]
Hosting Copenhagen with Kids
Copenhagen had been our home for 10 months before we welcomed our first visitors. We have practically been begging people to come. Mainly because we miss them, but also because we want to show them the city we have grown to love. Accepting an offer of a free guest room in a charming, central part […]
No Place Like Home
I have lived on multiple continents, studied abroad and have traveled to dozens of countries. Yet, this was a first. It was the first time I have lived in a foreign country and returned home for a visit. All the other times I have been away, I returned knowing that I was there to stay […]