Chilly Copenhagen

I arrived in Copenhagen in the dark after hours and hours of travel. I was to meet a childhood friend — my best friend, really, certainly my longest-lasting — and her husband here the following day.

We all drink tea, copiously. This meant finding somewhere after lunch where we could have a cup of tea and I could sketch without us all becoming hypothermic, so we ended up at a bar with outdoor heating on the Nyhavn, a big cliché, I know, but this is where we found.

I am not very good at drawing buildings and I didn’t have unlimited time but here’s my sketch, which I colored in after I got back to our hotel… Today was a brisk walk through the wind and cold of the Naturpark Amager, a territory formerly owned by the Danish military which is being allowed to rewild itself. We had hoped to see birds and I did see my life barnacle goose, or rather several thousand of them, but mostly it was a long walk in the wind. (We did help an elderly man with dementia reconnect with his son, which seemed like a kind thing to do.)