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To avoid an extensive post I cut this in 3 separate ones. Almost only pictures because I’m in a hurry to make up time and get to today ^ ^
Fleur and I spent a day in Roskilde to visit the Viking Ships Museum and the Cathedral (future posts).
The city is cute and gave a little Holiday atmosphere 🙂.
We crossed the cemetery:
It was mandatory that Fleur tasted Kanelsnegl before returning to France 🙂.
When you are moving (in Denmark), you have 2 things to do, or I should say 2 places you have to declare it. To the Folkeregistret so you’ll get your new CPR card and to the Post. You can do both online in 5 minutes. And that’s it.
A few days ago I went on my online banking to change my info but they already had everything updated! That is just wonderful when you come from France, where everything takes weeks and never even work in the end.
If you are moving from Copenhagen to another place in Copenhagen, you go there.
If you are moving to another commune, you go to borger.dk, for example for me, Frederiksberg was here. But you can change the town on the upper right. Everything on this site is in Danish, so you have to chose “Anmeld flytning til folkeregistret” and use your nemID, and everything else should be pretty easy to understand, or Google Translate is enough. Because basically they only ask who is moving (if it’s only you or if you have a whole family following), your actual address and the new one. If there is already someone registered at this address and who stays there (for example you move in a shared-flat) you have one box to check.
You can choose to change your doctor too. You receive your new CPR card in a week.
You have 5 days after you moved to do this! But you can do it 2 or 3 weeks before already.
For the Post, you go there and follow “Gå til ePosthuset og meld flytning”. You also use your nemID. They ask if it is a definitive or temporary change, and you simply give your new address and the moving date (you have to do it 5 days before at least). It’s free. And it works well, I had a few letters redirected from the first day. And that too, is magical when one come from France 😉
Dantes Plads 7, 1556 København V
Free admission on sundays, otherwise DKK 75.
Closed on Mondays, open Tuesday – Sunday 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
The Glyptotek is an art museum, I quote Wikipedia: “The collection is built around the personal collection of Carl Jacobsen (1842–1914), the son of the founder of the Carlsberg Breweries.
Primarily a sculpture museum as indicated by the name, the focal point of the museum is antique sculpture from the ancient cultures around the Mediterranean including Egypt, Rome and Greece, as well as more modern sculptures such as a collection of Rodin works which is considered the most important outside France. However, the museum is equally noted for its collection of painting that includes an extensive collection of French impressionists and Post-impressionists as well as Danish Golden Age paintings.”
Personally I thought it was not very well organized / indicated, but possible that the construction work that closed some rooms complicated things when we went there. Also, we lacked a bit of time because we arrived only an hour (or 1:30?) before closing.
Ophelia – Agathon Van Weydevelt Léonard
And the winter garden is really really nice (my pictures really don’t do it justice).
Sunday June 22the was Museums day with Fleur.
We started with the National Museum.
The website for all information, but here are the most important things:
– the Museum is located Ny Vestergade 10, 1471 Copenhagen K
It is near Rådhuspladsen for the transports, and the street faces the Glyptotek, a building hard to miss. The Museum itself is a bit in a setback so one can’t really see it before being in front of it.
– the admission is free for everyone everyday for the permanent exhibition.
– the Museum is closed on Mondays, and open Tuesday-Sunday from 10 a.m to 4.30 p.m.
– one has to leave bags (unless it is a small one) in lockers, the Museum’s website says to bring DKK 10 as a deposit but it was actually free.
The rest in pictures.
“Hair in the form of braided locks was also sacrificed in the bogs. Sometimes several plaits were tied together. These Deposits can be seen as both small and large sacrifices.
Small, because the hair was easily available, large, because one gave away the most beautiful thing one had.”
Lunch break.
Lunch break.
Cooking food, brewing beer, making candles.
Cheerful decoration.
The Chariot of the Sun.
Gundestrup Cauldron.
Deer’s head with a crucifix between the antlers, the symbol of Hubertus, the patron saint of hunters.
Den Blå Planet is the new aquarium that opened last march in Kastrup (close suburb of Copenhagen), one (the?) of the biggest in Northern Europe.
Taste the different seas
Grumpy fish is grumpy.
