Copenhagen!
Skoal! That is what people from Copenhagen say when they toast. And they toast a lot! We happened to be visiting our good buddy Mike during one of the most toast-happy times of year, the release of the yearly Tuborg Christmas brew. At exactly 8:59pm November 3rd, Tuborg trucks full of young people with blue santa hats and lights arrive at bars and flood all of Copenhagen with the xmas brew. It was a really fun time and lots of xmas brew was enjoyed by all.We then added a trip to the Carlsberg brewery to our tour. It is a great old brewery in the heart of Copenhagen that brews Tuborg and Carlsberg and the employees get to have a pint at lunchtime! Nice perk!
After the brewery, we toured a part of Copenhagen that was very interesting, Christiania. This is a freetown commune in the middle of town where the residents don't pay taxes and 'soft' drugs were available for sale on the famous 'pusher's row' until as recently as last year. Christiania was a very different lifestyle and very interesting. Wikipedia also has a good article available for more info.
Now we are back in Paris and our friends Joe and Carrie are in town so we are going to be touring Paris some more for the next couple of weeks. Here are some photos of Copenhagen!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59007731@N00/sets/72157594369071940/detail/
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6:40 AM
2 Comments:
hi there
as someone living in christiania, i appreciate your visit to our community.
i just want to remark that we do in fact pay taxes... the opposite is an old rumour we still hear now and then.
the controversy about christiania is not about the level of participation in Danish public life. why are we then different? because we do not trade properties - we share them. christiania is one of the last places in the western world where use of a place to live is not decided by economy, but by far more important factors. this has enabled us to be free from the speculation-wave that has hit the rest of copenhagen, which is becoming increasingly exclusive on a financial scale.
i just wanted to correct the mistake - christiania has a tough time with the current government campaign to curb the social responsibility and cultural values inherent in a living community decided on not capitalising property.
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Anonymous, at 2:46 PM
Nick and Jess,
Boring night on graveyard and there's nobody here to play paper-plate-frisbee with, so thought I'd catch up on your blog. Excellent stuff! Keep it up.
-Tim
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