Denmark

The trip from Bremen up to Aarhus in Denmark was long and somewhat stressful in that the German and Danish rail officials seemed to give us several different stories about how all the connections take place. However, we finally made it.

Den Gamle By (The Old Town) outdoor museum, Aarhus, DK

We had a good Thai meal, but an expensive one, as the Scandinavian countries build a very high sales tax into all prices. After dinner we walked through a sort of "living history" museum of a 500 year old Danish village. It was closed for the day, but we could see things on the outside.

The match with Germany draws a crowd

On the way back to the hotel we encountered a large square with a huge TV screen where about a thousand young people were watching Denmark play Germany in the Euro Football (soccer) match. Quite the event!

The European way of not missing out on the soccer match
just because you've been drinking lots of beer!

The academic conference went well, and it was good to meet a batch of primarily European researchers in my field, though some I knew before from other events. Mary did shopping and sight-seeing around Aarhus while I did my academic thing.

Mary got to visit the cathedral in Aarhus

Because we had several hours in London between our plane landing and our train to Nottingham, we got on another train and went out to Hampton Court, where Henry VIII built a grand palace for his new queen Anne Boleyn -- er, no, scratch that -- Jane Seymour -- no, err, well, you get the idea. The Tudor-era palace was later remodeled by Charles II and again by others, but many of the original details remain. It's an interesting site.

Hampton Court's center section belonged to Henry VIII
and later monarchs added on.

Back to Nottingham, where our next task is getting ready to come home to the U.S.