Study Tour of Western Denmark_Day 2_Recap
Day 2 of the study tour - after a late night - started bright and early at breakfast where I taught everyone to make sandwiches for lunch from the meats, cheeses, and breads that are typical for breakfast not only in Denmark, but in most of Europe. (I learned to do this from previous trips.) We went back to the Aalborg Harbor front, walked around, and then went to the Utzon Center which was the last building to be designed by Jørn Utzon who designed the famous Sydney Opera House. The built form was meant to represent/house the sails of the ships passing thru the harbor front of Aalborg. It was a pretty cool place and you can definitely see the resemblance between his two pieces.
Then we departed for the Enghøj Church towards Ebeltoft. For the trip, our professor/tour guide, Rasmus, bought us all Fastelavn pastries in honor of the Danish Halloween that was happening in a few days. The church itself I am completely in awe of and words do not do the space justice, so I will just redirect you all to my photoset of the Enghøj Church.
We then went to the cute little town of Ebeltoft. We started at a medieval church and then walked around the streets. A few of us actually got separated from the rest of the group because we were taking pictures and fell behind. But we had Toby, our other professor with us and he took us on a detour to the supermarket to buy chips and snacks for the sketch book review we would have later that evening. We walked all the way to the hostel we were staying at and then had the best meal I had had in Denmark up until that point. It wasn't anything spectacular or traditional in terms of eating Danish foods, but it was certainly the most well-rounded and fresh and filling.
Day 3, which I haven't posted pictures for yet, started with our departure for Århus to the city hall (I re-blogged someone else's photoset for that). It was designed by Arne Jacobsen, who is an iconic architect in general, but like architectural royalty in Denmark. It is one of the most important pieces of modernist architecture in all of Scandinavia. The bell tower, which we climbed, was not a part of the original structure, but the people of Århus wanted it, so he added it. When we climbed to the top, it was another 13 story climb on top of the 5 floors we had already climbed, but it was completely worth the view. We were able to see the whole harbor and then some.
One of the buildings that is pretty hard to miss from that high was the ARoS museum of art.The building was inspired by Dante's Inferno with hell in the basement and swirling up thru all 7 levels to the famous Rainbow Panorama room (pics to come). There were a ton of modern art exhibits taking place as well as the Munch exhibit (German impressionist artist who made 'Scream'). When we were done there, we went back to Kolding to visit the Trapholt Museum which had a ton of modern art pieces, paintings, a gallery of royal portraits, and a giant wall sculpture which has openings for framed and controlled views of the landscape. Then we went home, and I uploaded all my pictures and videos to realize that I took over 800, and accidentally filmed the videos I took in high quality so each one is over 100MB...oops. But thanks for reading, I know it's a lot and not super detailed, but you get the picture. Speaking of which, those posts are next so get ready!