When Steve Spalding wrote about Kaplak on How To Split An Atom, he chose a small picture of some pictoresque 19th century houses to accompany the article. The picture bears the title “Denmark”, which is shown when hovering over the image with the mouse cursor. While nice, the image is a bit on the tiny side, and doesn’t quite justify what it looks like living here. I’ve thought about for a while that I would like to put in a little work to expand the online imagery of Odense, so that the next person to write something about us (or about Odense or Denmark in general), will have a greater variety of images to pick from. What better day to do this, than on a sunny saturday, which is also a market’s day in Odense?
While the pictoresque quality of Odense is not completely true – and not completely untrue either, these are the places which do attract the camera the most. I had my daughter and my dog with me, and we were even lucky enough to see a whole swan family as they were feeding.
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For those of you who wouldn't know, Odense is the birthtown of H. C. Andersen, most celebrated writer of fairy tales. One of his most touching, as well as most famous and celebrated stories is The Ugly Duckling, in which an 'ugly duckling' goes through a lot of hardships, to later find he's turned into a beautiful swan.
It's only fitting we have this swan family around here :-)
I visited Copenhagen for three days in 1983 – wish I could have traveled more around Denmark, I hope to one day. Odense looks lovely!
H.C. Anderson wrote “The Little Mermaid” who sits in Copenhagen harbor, right?
And, Denmark is the only country invaded by Germany in WWII that saved the vast majority of their Jewish population, by treating them just like any other citizen deserves to be treated. A lesson more people around the world could learn I think.
Thanks and have fun! – Bob
Great! If you do, promise to stop by and say hi :-) You're right, Odense sure looks lovely in the summer. I explicitly went for some of the beautiful spots. I may do a photo set later on the “common” Odense, so that things are a bit balanced out…
Yes, Andersen is the author of “The Little Mermaid” too.
This is what the town square looked like in 1999 :
http://www.crewscut.com/index.php?title=Fil:MKH...
EDIT : Looks like Disqus doesn't allow inline images… Too bad.
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