Back from Copenhagen and Brum

Hello subscribers!

Just over two weeks ago I came back from my three-day trip to Copenhagen, which I had announced in the previous DT Newsletter. I had been to Denmark numerous times but never to Copenhagen before. I’m glad I was able to close that gap – it’s a fabulous city, an instant favourite, and I can’t wait to go back!

The day before yesterday I uploaded a first DT Blog post about Copenhagen, with 22 photos and a general overview of the city’s dark-tourism points of interest. Amongst these are the Museum of Danish Resistance, the associated memorial cemetery at Mindelunden, the medical museum, a couple of execution sites (WWII and post-war!), some Cold-War-era navy vessels, and a few other things. So go and take a look!

The photo above is also taken from that new Copenhagen post and I picked it just because it looks so striking. It shows parts of the interior of a craft beer bar with the logo of the associated craft beer brewery – in the shape of a coffin!! Why that? Well the brewery and this taproom are called “Too Old to Die Young”. That felt appropriate and very fitting to me, in fact it felt like it was about me! (I turned 60 last month, you know …) And the beer I had there (a hazy NEIPA type brew) was very good too.
  

After our return from Copenhagen my wife and I flew out again, this time to Britain, namely to Birmingham, just to visit my wife’s parents. We didn’t do any dark tourism while there. But when we got back to Vienna our checked luggage had gone missing. It took them five days to find it and then another three to get it back to us … after we had almost given up hope that we’d ever see it again.
  

But that was it for our summer travels … and beyond. Nothing else is planned for the next few months – so the trip to look forward to now is Taiwan in December. I hope the PRC won’t invade before then, or, worse still, while we are there! I also hope that my skin condition can be kept in check and won’t throw a spanner in the works yet again. Fingers crossed. At the moment it’s not too bad (but not over either).

For now I have plenty of material to go through and turn into new chapters for my main website and perhaps a few more Blog posts, not just about Copenhagen, and of course Iceland, but I also still have leftovers to deal with for Northern Ireland as well as a few bits and bobs from here and Hamburg. So even without new travels until the end of the year I won’t get bored any time soon.

So much for now.

Best wishes,

Peter