About 30 years ago I visited Copenhagen together with two friends. We took the boat down from Oslo and during the night on the ship I got a fever. We were to take the same ship back to Oslo the next night, and you are not allowed to stay on board the ship while it is in the port. Fever or not, I left with my two friends for shopping and coffees and friendship.
Brave, stubborn but poor, oh so poor, I left the boat, heading for Strøget, the main shopping street in Copenhagen. Alot of what we did during the day has left me, two vivid memories are still there:
- the first thing my two friends did when we came into a new shop was to find a chair, then they placed me there while they did shopping. I learned to know alot of chairs.......
- some time during the day we sat down in a café. I ordered a coke, drank it in one swallow and asked for one more, the fever made me almost desperate for something cold to drink..........or at least I thought I asked for one more. The Norwegian and the Danish languages are siblings, but not twins, I was misunderstood by the waiter and he came smiling back to our table with a huge pot of tea. I broke down and cried, I had been looking so much forward to this trip, everything felt ruined because of my fever, I couldn't even manage to order a coke......
Looking back now, 30 years later, I do have alot of sweet memories from our trip, and I did manage to do some shopping, from Eva Rosenstand & Clara Wever's embroidery store (I'm not sure I remember their names correct) I bought an embroidery kit of Nyhavn (The New Port) and when I came home and then got married to Terje a few weeks later, this embroidery was the first one I finished for the home we started together.
My two days in Copenhagen this week were busy, most all my time was filled with meetings. But to my great pleasure a room was booked for me at the Seamen's Home in Nyhavn. Frozen memories melted and came flooding.
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Thank you for your comments on yesterday's post. I am not going to stop blogging, it means too much to me, you mean too much to me. But I need to spend less time with my blog to get more time for "other stuff" :-)
Photos: the first one is taken through the window in the reception area at charming Sømandshjemmet, the third one is the view from the window in my room.
