*arhus*

so yesterday i took a little day trip to arhus. i guess not that little - it takes about 3 hours by train. the ride was lovely. lots of windmills & fields.


i checked out the aros museum, where there's a robert rauschenberg exhibit. the museum itself was great -- yet another amazing space. light and airy, scandinavian style. you walk in and you're on the 4th floor, and there are 8 floors altogether. lots of choices.




i found a cafe that i read about (somehow) in a danish magaine, called costume (that's the name of the magazine, not the cafe). i'm getting pretty good at reading danish magazines. if there's a good picture, i can usually track down what/where it is. so i ordered a really yummy brunch at this place, and when i paid, saw that they charged me for water! water! and 12 kroner! that was copenhagen's first strike against me, although technically i wasn't in copenhagen. is that legal?! well, i found out the answer today: yes it is. ever since the cost of water went up a few years ago, it is legal to charge for water, although, in true danish style, if someone is in desperate need of water, it is illegal to charge them. a girl in an amazing kids shoe store explained that to me today.

my point was really that there are lots of cafes along the main shopping streets, and in arhus, they overlook these little canals or bodies of water. on the day i was there, they were doing some hardcore construction of the water area.


anyway, after my brunch w/water, i did some shopping around the smaller cobblestone streets, and scored a pair of shoes & a little top from a great store called muloo. all of the shops close around 5:30 - 6:00, so i headed back home on a 6:31 train.