Fill Your Heart With Kooks And Quicksand (One For Bowie)

aaaaah pictures from the third and final day of the study tour from last weekend
p.s I was wrong about seeing the Grabaulle man so yeah but I did get to see alot of cool stuff
this is the farmer's market in Odense, the birthplace of H.C Andersen

group walking through the old part of town, re-constructed to look exactly like it did when H.C Andersen was born

birthplace (with brand new graffitti!)

a lot (hey lena) of stores here sell little stuff

lake and ducks outside the H.C Andersen museum

four-sectioned material collage, meant to set the stage for H.C Andersen's life...random objects really.

bird in cage? I dont even remember

they had a huge room with frescoes re-telling his life

awesome quote

the very first book ever written by Hans Christian Andersen

tiny house

his pops was a cobbler

interesting story here about H.C Andersen's grandfather,
read the text in the bottom picture first
these are the rolls of money that they found

H.C also carried this rope (this exact one!) with him EVERYWHERE because he was terrified of getting caught in a first-floor building fire

his first Fairy Tale book

also modestly famous for his paper cut-outs

dude with chains

his school...in case you cant tell the town of Odense is completely obsessed with H.C Andersen

our tour guide (far right) really annoying girl (middle) awesome tour leader Morten (far left)

this is the drunk (WASTED) couple that stumbled (literally) into our tour and followed us around

the river where H.C Andersen's mom washed the clothes of the town...
it froze over in the winter and she still was the only washer woman in town,
so she would go out on the ice and DRINK all day.
guess what she died from.

at least one person in Odense does not like H.C Andersen apparently

drunkards on the left.

cathedral (with obligatory H.C Andersen statue)

the drunks left once we got to the cathedral part of the tour

as you can see from the pictures, this is a huge cathedral.

more Morten, my oasis of intelligent conversation, and the tour leader

a bunch of people buried in this here cathedral

this is not the first saint of Denmark BUT it is his brother who died with him

THAT's the first saint of Denmark.

the cloth he was buried in (awesome pattern)

I've always wanted to get a picture of someone doing this

this would be an epic tattoo

H.C Andersen's boyhood home (different from his birthplace, apparently)...just one room

another great quote

Sarah and I refused to tour the ONE-ROOM HOUSE with a group of 20 people

another famous person in Odense apparently...the Jimmy Dean cafe

i forget what she was talking about here

apparently this is a chain of bars in Denmark, and I've only visited the location in Downtown Copenhagen, but never, ever, ever go to Australian Bar. Ever.

awesome statue outside of the Danish media museum

wow blogger is messing up my pictures but its ok.
This book was just as good as expected, I managed to flip through most of it in the gift shop of the Danish media museum, more on the most amazing gift shop in the world later

the windows were tinted a specific shade of green that turns purple in photos

anyways, the museum was amazing and one of the coolest museums I personally have ever experienced, so here's a nice taste of...actually I took pictures of everything there so here is the Danish Media Museum.

awesome balcony

more Politiken

these pics are from an exhibit called "Blackout" which as far as I can tell was just there to show how cool huge rooms look like with random desks in them and purple-tinted windows.

s-portrait

i really like the black candles here

part of the Tokyo photography exhibit

part of the Greenland photo exhibit

everyone should check out this photographer

and they had an absolutely crazy collection of comics in the gift-shop

seriously great

looks like home

yeah.

learn danish from comic books!
the silver surfer, norrin radd, herald of galactus, says to Spider-man before he leaves earth forever:
"Farvel, men van."
Spider-Man says:
"Farvel."
think you know?

swagger on a trillion on the european continent