A Celebration of Mundanity

Blackpool is the Atlantic City of the UK, and frankly, this sort of place makes me sad. It's casino-amusement park-generic souvenir-bar land, and most of it is closed because it's the off season. I…

We're back from Denmark and Sweden as of late Sunday night, but am now sitting in a hotel right on the shore in Blackpool. (There is a random dog roaming the halls of this place who is now sitting in…

We left the Cliffs of Mon and drove back towards Copenhagen, we decided to head a little further to Helsingor and visit the Kronborg Slot. This castle is purported to be the inspiration and setting…

Møns Kint, "the Cliffs of Møn" These chalky cliffs are the result of deposits made by microorganisms, the bulk of their mass moved to their present location by glaciers. Throughout the white there…

Today involved driving down to Møn's Klint on the Baltic sea shore.  Every little town we passed by has two or three wind mills.  So many homes and small buildings were all painted the same color,…

Bikes, bikes everywhere. I've never been someplace where every one rode their bicycles everywhere and all the time. We're in Scandinavia, in winter, it's snowy, rainy, very cold... Yet they're all on…

The Natural History Museum in Lund is available to view by appointment only. When I arrived I was treated to a personal tour by a staff member, as I was the only person in the museum at the time, he…

Lund Cathedral, Lunds Domkyrka in Swedish, was constructed in the early 1100's. Inside this cathedral is an unusual Astronomical Clock, the Horologium mirabile Lundense, was made around 1424. The…

Botaniska trädgården , the botanical garden associated with the University of Lund. The greenhouses are open to the public for free 12-3 daily. A warm oasis in the cold Scandinavian air.…

We arrived at the hotel, dropped off our baggage and headed out for a walk around the city. As we started off, I had done enough research ahead of time, I was recognizing buildings and spires and…