Snow 19.12.2009
Posted by MartinH in in general, people, uni.Tags: centrestage, christmas, denmark, guest author, Martin, snow, sweden
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While Tabi wraps Christmas presents of varying sizes, I’ll update you on what has been going on since her last post on our weekend in Cardiff.
After many hours of work, Tabi finally completed all of her various University assignments, managed to get them printed, attached ‘pink slips’ and handed them in all in. This left her a few hours to pack her suitcases before we had to drive to Glasgow to see the musical “Beauty and the Beast” live on stage at the Clyde Auditorium. The trip was organized by my theatre group, Centrestage, as we are mounting our own production of it in March. We came away having enjoyed the performance but confident that we can do even better ourselves.
The very next morning (Thursday) we were up early and back to Glasgow to catch our plane to Denmark. When we arrived at Kastrup Airport we found the ground was thick with snow. The runway where our plane would normally have landed was one of those reserved for bringing world leaders to the Climate Change Summit (COP15). This meant that we had to land at the other end of the airport and taxi, then finally take a bus, to the terminal building. It was lovely to see Tabi’s family again and I know that she enjoyed having a proper Danish lunch: rye bread and warm liver paté.
On Friday, we ventured into Copenhagen to visit the Climate Change Exhibition which showed the various ways people are trying to save energy and preserve the planet for future generations. I contributed by pedaling a bicycle for a few minutes to help power the Christmas tree lights. Tabi, in tourist mode, took a photograph of me doing it.
Today, we went with Bodil and Rob (Tabi’s parents) on the train to snowy Sweden to visit the Julmarknad (Christmas Market) in Malmö. We took a ride on the Wheel of Malmö which gave us lovely views of the city from high above it. It snowed all day and it was very cold but it was good fun to walk around the Christmas Market and town looking at the various festive things on sale while drinking our hot chocolate. Our favourite tourist attraction would have to be the bike stand which an exercise bike was chained to!
Tabi and I recorded the trip on a mini digital video camera my parents gave us for Christmas so some of you may be fortunate enough to see the edited highlights of our trip, if we ever find the time to select the highlights and edit them into some sort of coherent narrative with high production values, naturally.
Martin
