Jan. 10th-Just a quick one today. I went to visit the Rosenborg Slot which is an old castle right in the center of Copenhagen. The weather was kinda blah today but the gray sky seemed to make a nice backdrop for these pictures.. they're some of my favorites.
(Mike & Jay- Took this because it reminded me of "Snakes on a Plane")
I also went to visit Christiania which is a squatters village in the middle of Copenhagen. Its hard to describe and I'd like to go back again once I've gained more insight before I start posting 
pictures and talking about it like I know anything. Its a very strange little place.. right in the middle of the city, next to the Parliament house even, and yet its ignored by everyone which allows it to be this free establishment. They don't pay for the land, and they don't get any services. Yet they survive. And they are happy to do so on their own. It now thrives as a tourist stop, selling hemp jewelry and clothing, drugs too I imagine, and some food, but its also a place people live. When you walk around, which you 
are free to do and go wherever, there are groups of people huddled around fire barrels in the streets or in their lawn chairs, there are bikes dropped in the mud as if their owners decided suddenly they were done biking. There were dogs and kids and a playground, like everything else, covered in graffiti. But there is also a lot of art, sculptures, metal work, paintings, everywhere.. It was an eclectic and challenging and 
intimidating but also oddly comfortable place.. I don't know. That's why I have to go back again and that's why I know I'll touch back on this subject again later.(You are welcomed when you enter by "Christiania" which is the name of this commune or state, however you look at it, and warned when you leave that you're re-entering the European Union)
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