Reassured that Chris was on the mend and safely back from hospital, I escaped from my studies and had lunch in Copenhagen at café Klaptrćet with my newly married friend, Vibeke. It was fantastic to see her again after so many months, and we spent some five hours catching up and looking at photographs from her wedding and honeymoon to South Africa. It looked amazing, and was quite a difference from the wet and wintry streets of Copenhagen.
Chris is spending a long weekend with me in Denmark. Today, we jumped on the metro to visit the latest tourist attraction in Copenhagen, Fields - Scandinavia's biggest shopping mall. And I was well pleased. Chris on the other hand found there to be far too many clothes shops! We of course had to visit the obligatory kitchen come interior design shop where I took great delight in watching Chris puncture his finger whilst using his great engineering talent trying to figure out what an egg pricker was!
I have decided to stay in Denmark a little longer. Sadly, Maria and I had to push the deadline for our thesis, and hopefully an extra month will give us the time we need to complete it. As a result, most days now are spent reading and writing.
Today, however, I decided to treat myself to a break – at the Malmö 'home and housing fair'. And it began so full of promise; a considerable distance from the exhibition centre, roads were completely blocked with cars, police having to direct the traffic, and we had to spend a really long time queuing. Finally we ventured – full of anticipation – into the fair. And it was one massive disappointment. For two hours we fought our way through the masses of people and prams, desperately seeking kitchen and bathroom accessories. To no avail. In the end, the only remotely interesting thing – however strange – was a kitchen complete with cooks, an audience and a family, the latter consuming a meal they had apparently just won!