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Xmas Cruise 2013 - Copenhagen-Arken Page |
Copenhagen-Arken
Thursday 26th December - to Arken
We were quite late getting into Copenhagen, berthing at about 10. I had bought Dk850 for £99.18 from Reception. We walked off to Osterport Station & took a train at 1109 to Ishjoi on a grey but at least, not raining morning. Osterport Station building is quaintly old-fashioned but the facilities were not. Curiously, one buys one’s ticket from the buffet. Ishjoi Station has had a birthday since we were last here (in 1998) & the view of the Arken gallery on the dunes, just back from the beach, is obscured by new flats.
The bleak setting of the gallery |
Arken |
Arken inside |
The bus (number 128) is on the train ticket. (These are timed, from zone to zone). Just as well, as it was Dk240 altogether plus Dk190 to get into Arken & Dk238 for lunch. I had not told Avis that there was a Frida Kahlo special show, as a surprise. This had some of her paintings we knew, some of Diego Rivera & other Mexican revolutionary painters & some of Kahlo’s drawings we did not know.
Some of Frida Kahlo's drawings |
Some of her... |
...dresses |
Paintings by Diego Rivera |
Kahlo drawings |
Part of the Kahlo show |
Kahlo drawings |
Diego Rivera as a young man by Kahlo |
Part of the regular show |
The Walthamstow Tapestry by Grayson Perry
There was quite a bit of British art, including Grayson Perry’s “Walthamstow Tapestry” above. What was that doing here? We had a splendid lunch, Avis of gravad lax & me of a pork salad (since we are in Denmark). The bus back was late & we chatted to a group of Swedes, who can get here easily these days over the bridge. It was 2°C all day, so the walk back from Osterport Station did not warm our feet much. We were just in time for tea.
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