Tuesday, July 26, 2016

July 26 - Copenhagen part 2

The last 4 pictures are the Copenhagen Town Hall. The picture of the Lego girls are at their flagship store Lego. The picture where it has an arch over a sidewalk that says Christiana is an area that is dominated by hippies and other people that are anti-establishment. There are many odd looking people and things in this area actually they have signs posted stating No Pictures in this area.



July 26 - Copenhagen part 1

Here are several pictures from Copenhagen.  The last three pictures are from the train station and the outside of the train station.  The first three pictures show the biking paths and you would almost refer to it as a biking street, even though they run alongside the other street. You will notice in another picture, there is a right turn lane and that is for bicycles. In the first couple of pictures you see three levels of street; the lower level is for the traffic of cars and buses, the second level is the dedicated bike street, and the third level is the sidewalks for the pedestrians.  The Danes claim Denmark, particularly Copenhagen, is the biking capital of the world. Actually that is believable because of the number of bicycles all over the place.  A large part of the interest in riding a bike or taking a bus is easy to explain; the tax on the purchase of a car is 180%!!!!! Woe be to the innocent pedestrian that accidentally stepped out into the bike street or path. We were told by a local native that the Danes are actually quite friendly until they get on their bicycles and then they become Nordic aggressors.

The sixth picture shows the old and the new, it shows the electric car charger available for electric cars in the foreground, and the Scandic Palace Hotel in the background.

Denmark is very liberal and many of the women are not modest at all. That is evidenced through them riding bicycles in dresses and they don't seem to care what all shows as they're riding their bicycles.

It is rather staggering the amount of people that smoke here. The price of food is rather high by US standards and so one has to question if they smoke just in order to suppress their appetite.

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

July 6

Here are several pictures from around Bald Head Island. The one picture of the swimming pool where there are lots of people is at the Bald Head Island Club. The other pool where  there's just Jackson, Maggie and Kerri in the pool is just for the condo area where we're staying.

The second floor dining area with the green roof over near the swimming pool at the Bald Head Island Club is elevated so you can see out into the ocean or look down into the pool area.

There is a picture of the Old Baldy Lighthouse that dates back many many years.

There are several pictures of houses on the island, just random pictures, and the last picture is of Maggie fishing off the boardwalk right out in front of our condo.

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

July 5 - Fishing at Bald Head

My little Maggie fishing from the boardwalk in front of our condo.

July 4

The pictures are of Bonnie kayaking with Jackson and Maggie on the Fourth of July on Bald Head Island.  This is in the marsh right in front of our condo.  We later attended a family picnic and BBQ complete with live music.

Sunday, July 3, 2016

July 2nd - starting our vacation to Bald Head Island North Carolina

The first picture is at the ferry terminal that we take out of Southport, North Carolina to get over to Bald Head Island.  The second picture is the ferry departing the docks heading to Bald Head Island. The rest of the pictures are from our condo on Bald Head, down the beach just different looks and views of what we are seeing on our vacation.