I gave Markus’ Sunday morning off from his guide duties and took the metro to the Copenhagen Botanic Garden.
It was a wonderfully calm place, with greenhouses, a pond and people sitting on the grass, reading in the sunshine. And the entrance was free – so, if I lived in Copenhagen, this would definitely be one of my favorite spots in the city. To just come here on a sunny day and spend a lazy afternoon lying on the grass, reading a good book. Unfortunately, I didn’t have that kind of time now. But I’ll come back to Copenhagen. Living in Stockholm, I won’t be able to avoid it.
A statue of Athena being tempted by Marsyas. Isn’t it kind of refreshing that for once, the woman is fully dressed and the man stark naked? And remember the white sphinxes at Belvedere in Vienna that had gotten grey breasts from all the people touching them? Well, here the entire statue was corroded green, except for Marsyas penis, that was shiny and coppery red. People are such perverts.
They also had a beautiful old greenhouse.
And butterflies in one of the rooms! I sat there, in the humidity, while the Swedish families tried to catch the flighty butterflies on camera, listening to an interview with an old idol of mine, the Swedish author Bodil Malmsten. It was very nice, just to rest my feet and breathe in those wonderful greenhouse smells. Copenhagen has a lovely botanic garden.
The corner just across one of the garden entrances. There are flowers growing in the streets of Copenhagen too.
Katja Malmborg 