Vacation - Danish Style

On Sunday's we transfer buses at Mozart's Plads.  Mozart's Plads has become a haven for drunks and others and the park had become an eyesore and a place that you literally prayed the whole time you were there - that you would be okay.  In May they started renovating the park.  They put in a children's area with a musical path and things you needed to do.  Here is Clyde playing the xylophone and the funnel shaped thing is connected to another one with pipes under the ground.  You can talk through it with the other person.  There is a little house to in the upper left with a hammock attached to it. 

 This area has Mozart's Plads, Handel's way, Strauss street, Rubenstein way, etc.  It very picturesque and the residents are taking their area back.

 



This is Elisabeth Bloch and me visiting over some wonderful food she prepared for us.  The juice in the pitcher that is pink was rhubarb-lemonade.  I HATE rhubarb and have never found any way that I enjoy eating it.  Her rhubarb lemonade was amazing and refreshing.  We also had zucchini/carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and lemon zest in the frosting.  It was wonderful.  She made little cookies but she called them tarts.  They were a shortbread cookie with black currant mousse in the middle.  It wasn't overly sweet but it was very rich.  We had such an incredible experience today with her as our guide.

This is the back of her garden home.  In Germany - after WWI, they divvied up areas of the city for gardens.  Any citizen could have one.  You were to grow fresh fruits and vegetables on 80% of it though.  Most of Europe has grabbed hold of this tradition.  However now instead of shacks for garden tools on the land, they are putting houses with all the facilities you need for a day or a  month and they are no longer given away, you have to buy your plot or have it bequeathed to you.  Elisabeth found this home 2 years ago.  Basically they have become like a cabin in the mountain to people in Utah.  Elisabeth's is about 900 square feet with a large living room/kitchen combination, a bathroom with a shower and washer/dryer and a bedroom that comfortably fits a queen sized bed, a wardrobe and a dresser.  Elisabeth has spent that last 2 weeks here and will spend next week here also.  She has amazing flowers with a small garden plot in her very back.  If we were going to live here for longer than 18 months, I would seriously consider renting one at some point.  It was about 7 miles from the bridge the connects Sweden with Denmark.  She is actually on the flight path for planes taking off from the airport but they are high enough by the time they get to her that you really don't hear it. 

This blog is going to be ongoing for several days.  Stay tuned for more pictures and information about our day at Dragoor.