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Hyggelig 5: Rick Steves Writes a Crappy Guidebook

Hyggelig 5: Rick Steves Writes a Crappy Guidebook

May 19th, 2018 | Europe, General, Popular Culture, Travel

I don’t like Rick Steves’ television persona. I find him sanctimonious, arrogant and supercilious, veneered with faux naiveté and faked authority. I don’t like his insistence that the primary and dominant function of travel is “getting to know” the locals—whether or...
Hyggelig 4: Foot, Bicycle and the Red Bus

Hyggelig 4: Foot, Bicycle and the Red Bus

May 13th, 2018 | Europe, General, transportation, Travel

We were in the car—mostly the only time I listen to the game shows on National Public Radio—and Ask Me Another with Ophira Eisenberg came on, broadcast from Orlando, Florida. This and that bit went by and a new contest started. The object of the game was to identify...

Hyggelig 3: From Counterculture Colors to the Black Diamond

May 11th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Europe, General, literature and poetry, Popular Culture, Society at Large, Travel

Christianshavn is a relic of 17th-century development. Thus its shape is that of a segment of a circle with the København Havn (the redundant “Merchants Harbor Port”) representing the chord and Stadsgraven Canal forming the arc.  Originally a moat protecting the...
Hyggelig 2: Bulls and Dragons

Hyggelig 2: Bulls and Dragons

May 9th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Europe, General, Travel, visual arts

My Dear One pointed it out to me on our first stroll: “Mr. Softee.” The spire of the of Børsen, the Old Stock Exchange, with its quartet of dragons, tails entwined, does indeed look at first glance like an attenuated tower of soft-serve ice cream. Above the dragons,...
Hyggelig 1: Living Cozy

Hyggelig 1: Living Cozy

May 9th, 2018 | Cooking, Kitchen and Table, Europe, General, Shopping, Travel

Apartment 1 in the Central Canal Apartments, Wildersgade, 15, in the Christianshavn neighborhood in Copenhagen is snug. No rugs for bugs and no room for much else. A rack accommodates clothes on hangers but stuff that would go into drawers must stay in suitcases. The...

Book # 10 in 2018: “Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls” by David Sedaris

April 2nd, 2018 | Europe, Family, General, literature and poetry, Travel

I normally read Sedaris in places like New Yorker magazine; my husband buys the published collections for me at Christmas or on my birthday, and each piece is a cupcake I can take to bed and not leave crumbs. If I spent more time in the car, maybe I’d listen...
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