Hi Freki,
My name is Gabor [real name].
I've watched your Copenhagen thread the other day. All the 7 pages - phewww, a looong photo-journey. I loved it. (I even have a Merian book on the city and I take it from the shelf from time to time.) To be honest I'm very curious about CPH and wanted to travel there for the Midsummer Night Eve. But, since haveing just returned from an unsuccessful trip to Amsterdam, I don't have the money at my disposal. I try to follow the events in your city, that's why I turned to the Copenhague projetcts' thread which is well over 60 pages now. I think it's a great place to live, which is supported by the fact that an American magazine 2 years ago put on its list of most liveable cities on the 2nd post, a year ago the first! So you can be understandably proud of your city! Could you tell me how exactly people celebrate on June 22nd (one day after my birthday...)? How important is this night for the Danes and what does it symbloize for them?
Finally: just a bit eprsonal: far be it from me to be mindlessly flatering or anything, just want to tell that among my all-time favourite countries of the world is, well guess, none other than Denmark!!!
Really - the others: Italy, the USA, and a - now intentionally unnamed Asian country. Don't ask which one or why. What I'm saying is the fact that I simply love (even adore a bit to be frank...) your country is deeply personal, the reason for this goes back to the darkest, DARKEST possibly imaginable..., chapter of history. OK, enough of this, I'm already talking too much nonsense perhaps. Just wanted to tell that I am looking forward to visiting your country/city in two years time, or next year at the earliest! Pa gynsen! (Sorry for the non-correct spelling!)
I'm looking forward to more pics from the city! (In fact I also heard a lot that Amsterdam and Kobenhavn have much in common. And also the view that perhaps the architecture and the houses there - Amsterdam - are sometimes more beautiful than in CPH, to which I retorted that there are much, much more open space in Cph and the overall feeling is perhaps better. And while there may be lots of beautiful houses and buildings in A'dam, what I found out to my shock how utterly 'closed' the city is - without big squares, open spaces which I very much appreciate and A'dam lacking etc. I decided to call it ironically the world capital of claustrophobia...
) Later perhaps we can have a dialogue, some sorts who knows?
For the time being,
Regards and the Best,
Gabor