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Malmö Sky

If you know Malmö from watching The Bridge TV series. you may be interested to know that there is an exhibition about the programme running in the Science and Maritime House until […]
Malmö Sky

Winter Protection on Skeppsholmen

Skeppsholmen’s Admiralty House (Amiralitetshuset) was built in 1647-50 when the Admiralty Board moved over to the small island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm.  The beautiful copper-coloured building is a pleasant sight as […]

Tickled Pink

  Linked to Fun Foto Challenge and Floral Friday Copyright Debbie Smyth, 26 January 2016    

A Short and Winding Walk

On my busy trip to Copenhagen last week, I managed to grab a quick break one lunchtime.  Very conveniently, I was in the part of town that houses a tower that […]

Thorvaldsen’s Return

In central Copenhagen, next to Christiansborg Palace, there stands a museum dedicated to a single artist, to the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), a Dane who spent most of his life in Rome. The outside […]

Danish David and his Shadow

Many full-sized replicas of Michelangel’s marble David are on display around the world; the one above is a bronze cast that stands in front of the Kongelige Afstøbningssamling, the Danish Royal […]

Love is Often Unexpected

According to this red granite sculpture on the quay in Stockholm, love  came true for the optimistic sea monster and the bashful mermaid.   Copyright Debbie Smyth, 22 January 2016    

A Glimpse of Orange

I’m back in Copenhagen today, enjoying the colourful architecture, though this photo is from April last year: it’s not so sunny today, and there’s a fair bit of snow here now! […]