i got back a few hours ago, i just slept and had a wonderful dream about københavn’s transport system. the weekend was fantastic. time spent in malmö, lund and københavn was brilliant and went far too quickly. what didnt go too quickly was the travelling. verging on thirty hours in each direction. next time im going back to the method beloved of the irish, flying. none of this finnish love of ferries for me.

anyway, arrived thursday night in lund, met sara and proceeded to get a little drunk. had to wake up the next morning at 0700 or something silly so as we could go to københavn with her class on an architectural tour. i had visited københavn before but missed out on a lot of it. some places we went to included the danish architectural centre where the had a slightly irritation exhibition of daniel libeskind (the irritating aspect was the treatement of september 11th). after that we went on to the thorvaldsens museum and we saw the danish queen drive by. (she waved). this museum was based around the work of an 19th century danish sculpturer (bertel thorvaldsen). some of the items on show were incredibly impressive, magnificent in scale and detail. the building that they were housed in (a classical greek inspired building) didnt do as much for me. after this a run to the danish national bank which is one of arne jacobsen’s most famoust buildings. being the complete architectural fool that i am, i had never heard of the building before, or that much about the architect. first impressions of the building were pretty low, on a windy afternoon it didnt seem to inviting, but from what we saw of the interior (not ver much) and from the brochure, the building is fantastic. a huge full height atrium is the first thing you see inside. fantastic. after that we made our way to four minutes in the “black diamond“, which is the newish extension to the national library. i remember seeing this when i was interrailing in 2000, and its a fantastic building. i cant understand how it got planning permission. well done denmark. then we did a quick ferry trip around the harbour, seeing the new opera house underconstruction, but after a few hours of walking and the early start some people nodded off on the boat. anyway, after this off we went to the danish design centre where we saw a very impressive (but small) verner panton exhibition. pretty good stuff. check out that link to see some of the stuff, hard to explain. after this we went to another arne jacobsen building, the sas raddisson (another site here).

the rest of the weekend was spent mostly drunk, or watching mtvs “totally 90’s weekend”. after the trip to københavn we went back to lund, then onto two parties, and on saturday went for a supercool dinnerparty in malmö before heading out to a club and then to a late night bakery. yum. photos back soon, plus some from sara too hopefully. in the mean time thanks to sara, luke, ola, linnea, sweden and denmark for being supercool (aswell as the residents of #83)