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June 19, 2005
as we continue on
Loads of half-finished posts. Will try to finish those still relevent. One of them will refer to Tropicana, a theatre/dance/experience in London. It's only on til the 25th, and I highly recommend anyone in London to go and see it. Even if you hate theatre, or really dance, I'm sure you'll find something fun in it - even just going into the vaults around London Bridge station is worth the entrance fee. After this the Shunt Vaults host Ether Frolics.
Reboot was pretty great, really, and Copenhagen is gradually unpacking for me. Managed to get the mystical klippenkarte from a machine at the airport - however I still managed to buy a few kid's tickets before I realised they weren't one-way tickets into the centre. Two things about Copenhagen I meant to mention last time - firstly, Denmark is poker crazy. Loads of shop windows reference it, sell books, cards, anything to do with it. Secondly, being a bicycle-centric culture (and not pedestrian friendly at all), they have strange hand signals when going over pedestrian crossings. It's a hand up movement, as if swearing allegiance to something. I think it's meant to mean "I'm sorry for nearly running you pedestrian scum over". But I'm not sure.
Went to the new Carlsberg visitor centre after the conference. Carlsberg is rightly pooh-poohed in the UK - the UK stuff is tasteless, as British tastes demand. The local brew is better, and at least tastes of hops and, well, beer. Maybe I have a soft spot for the stuff, as I apparently was first drunk on Carlsberg's rather strong Elephant beer. And my first hangover. I was rather young at the time, so can't remember the precise details. The visitor centre was pretty good as these things go. Sure, loads of video displays trying to justify why doing things in big metal silos is better than casks, and by hand, but at least it's in the original buildings, and lots of the original equipment around. There's a new microbrewery, Jacobsen, dispensing 4 new beers - I thought the dark lager was rather fine. Made me want to open a brewery. Sigh.
The newer Danish local trains are far better than anything I've seen in the UK. I was pretty impressed both with the use of space and the information design.
Food this time was more low-key, but still great. The two mini fast food chains, The Taco Shop and Sticks-n-Sushi were both very good, and I'd happily have them open branches in Helsinki.
Got to the opening of the Copyshop, and hilariously close to meeting Angermann2. Also got to Tivoli, and went on the Dragen (twice), but the queues for the new rollercoaster were too long. Next time.
Also got to an exhibition of Korean contemporary art at the Charlottenborg art gallery. Every time I've been to this venue I've been really impressed by the exhibition - well curated, well designed, and showing artists that are normally out of traditional contemporary art circles. I'll (hopefully) write more about this later. But if you're in Copenhagen, go.
Since then, I've been trying to recuperate sleep. A quick game of minigolf, a party literally down the road (and thanks to Sampo and Liisa) - I managed to win an iPod cozy. You can't beat the English at a raffle.
Long days at the moment. Hopefully going to get up north and experience some midnight sun.
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