Camere d’aria 2019, un viaggio da fiaba: Copenaghen

p8270141.jpg

Partenza da Kokkedal Slot verso Copenaghen. Fino ad ora avevamo provato solo le piste ciclabili di Berlino, pertanto di una città, dovevamo ancora renderci conto di cosa sono effettivamente le piste ciclabili per i paesi che stavamo a visitando.

Il concetto di pista ciclabile in questi paesi è diverso che da noi! Non servono, come qui, per diporto (per la maggior parte), per turismo, ma per andare a lavorare o a scuola!! Il concetto di strada è diverso: Le auto circolano con la massima attenzione dove circolano le biciclette, non il contrario come qui! Le strade che non posseggono una pista ciclabile nella propria sede, hanno una striscia laterale tratteggiata che costituisce pista ciclabile, su tutti e due i lati. In una strada stretta, ci sono le due piste ciclabili e la corsia centrale per il transito delle auto nei due sensi. Se non c’è alcuna bicicletta, le auto possono superare la riga tratteggiata nell’incrocio con altre auto in senso contrario. E poi c’è l’educazione della circolazione. In auto non superano mai i limiti di velocità, e anche noi lo abbiamo fatto. Qui da noi i limiti diventano flessibili, ognuno interpreta i 30 in un modo, i 50 in un altro. In quei paesi esiste una sola interpretazione, quella del limite imposto. E anche dove non esistono limiti come in Germania, se tu stai sorpassando in terza corsia ed arriva un’Audi dietro, questo non ti sfanala, aspetta che tu finisca il tuo sorpasso , che rientri sulla destra e poi accelera senza mandarti a quel paese.

Bene, eccoci qui che viaggiamo a tratti in riva al mare e a tratti lungo la ferrovia in mezzo ad un bosco con continui saliscendi con punte del 15%. E noi che pensavamo che la Danimarca fosse piatta.

clicca su questo link per il video del giro in bicicletta a Copenaghen

Chiaramente rimaniamo spaesati ed interdetti, quando le auto si fermano e non capiamo perchè…ma per farci passare!!! Entriamo in Copenaghen e la prima cosa che troviamo sul nostro tracciato è la Sirenetta, che tutto sommato è anche uno degli scopi del viaggio, le fiabe.

Infatti, a sera, invierò a tutti i miei bambini e non, la fiaba della sirenetta, nella versione originale di Arthur Andersen, letta da me.

Il giro prosegue verso la Fontana di Gefion, raffigurante la leggenda della nascita della Zelanda (ovvero l’isola su cui si trova Copenaghen).

La fontana di Gefion con sullo sfondo la chiesa di sant’Albano

La chiesa di sant’Albano ci riserva giochi di riflessi sull’acqua del fossato che circonda il Kastellet

Le Kastellet è una fortezza militare che sorge nelle immediate vicinanze della Sirenetta. E’ ancora usato dalle forze armate ma, è visitabile e sorprende per i suoi colori sgargianti.

Dopo aver pranzato, si fa per dire, in un locale fast food tipico della zona, non possiamo non notare una istallazione artistica composta di pezzi di metallo, quasi un sirenetto moderno posto in fronte al mare. Zinkglobal, visionario soggetto pensante forse alla catastrofe della nostra era?

Proseguiamo la nostra escursione verso Nyhanv passando prima per Amalienborg, residenza invernale della regina. Una splendida piazza circondata da magnifici palazzi con le guardie reali impettite a fare i loro caroselli di guardia.

Amalienborg con la Frederick kirke sullo sfondo

Nyhavn è una bolgia di persone, tra locali stracolmi di gente, turisti che si accalcano per fotografare le casette colorate, ragazzi che in bicicletta si recano a fare il bagno nella spiaggia del porto, insomma, il classico luogo turistico che ti fa pentire di esserci arrivato. Pertanto si tenta di fare qualche foto di rito, senza addentrarci più di tanto.

Giriamo per le viuzze del centro con uno sguardo speciale a Christianborg Slot.

Nel ritorno in bicicletta, ci fermiamo a ristorarci in riva ai laghi Sortedams, dove stuoli di biciclette passano per ritornare a casa dal lavoro o da scuola. Talvolta ci sentiamo in difficoltà per il traffico, sembra quando da provinciale entri in una grande città con l’auto, magari Napoli, così noi con la bici. Mi sono preso più di una scampanellata!

Verso Kokkedal, verso la sera con il suo tramonto.

15 Likes

Hey @plavarda ,

Thanks for sharing another great adventure with us. I’ve always wanted to visit Copenhagen ever since I read the Little Mermaid story but I never found the chance. It’s never too late as people say. Your photos are lovely and it’s very easy for me to be convinced that I should not miss this place. Did you visit any interesting places to eat or have a couple of drinks?

By the way, your last photo reminded me of the beautiful sunset in Menorca. Here is what I captured there:

3 Likes

Cara @MoniDi ,

Seguimi nelle prossime storie che pubblicherò, ho molti luoghi da raccontare e sarò molto felice nel sapere che le leggerai. Ho fatto questo ultimo viaggio per l’Europa alla ricerca delle fiabe. Sono molto contento di questo viaggio. Potrebbe essere un buon suggerimento per altri viaggiatori anche con bambini, oppure nonni come noi!

Ciao

1 Like

It is wonderful post and perfect photos.

I enjoy watching your photos @plavarda

I visited Copenhagen in January 2020.

It is amazing city with unique history, architecture and monuments.

But in winter the city is not so beautiful as in summer.

This is link to my album

https://photos.app.goo.gl/nZ24V6Sd38d8DZvcA

1 Like

@helga19 BRRRRRRRR what cold!!! Sure not for Italian people but only for strong russian woman!!! I see all the places that we visited by bicycle, good remembers!!!

This foolish video only for you!!! :slightly_smiling_face: :slightly_smiling_face: :slightly_smiling_face: In Kokkedal castle!https://youtu.be/11N6XSdFmzk

Ciao Inna,

Paolo

2 Likes

Ooor, it is great!

Thanks for sharing this video @plavarda .

Nice.

It’s finny video. :blush:

Your wife looks very sporty, stretched and young! Bravo!

Sorry, I forgot her name.

Give her my best regards.

Sure, I was cold in wet and windy in the city. We drink gluhwine (mulled wine) in street bar in order to warm.

But we were very interested in watching sightseeing of the city.

My best wishes to you both from Moscow,

Inna

1 Like

@helga19 my next wife is Mariacristina, she does not want to marry me because she is afraid of losing these magical moments of completely madness. She Is near 63 Years old.

I proposed 2022 After 15 Years!! She don’t give me answerti :slightly_smiling_face: :slightly_smiling_face: :slightly_smiling_face:

Paolo

2 Likes

What a beautiful name-Mariacristina!

To understand :older_woman: woman is always difficult!

What a woman thinks sometimes God himself does not know :blush:

So let her to enjoy her magical moments!)

I think that Happiness is not in status, but in desire to be always together and in harmony.

I wish you nice mood and sunny days and bright travelling together.

Best regards,

Inna

1 Like

@helga19 absolutely correct Inna

Kiss

Paolo

1 Like

Ciao, @plavarda

Mention me in your next post. O like to read your nice posts and watch perfect photos and videos. It is interesting to know more about beautiful places in Italia.

Best regards,

Inna.

Hello @plavarda and Mariacristina

I would like to share with you humorous Russian program Evening Urgant.

Video with Italian songs and show in Italian.

https://youtu.be/lYgu75EwuPo

We all Russians love Italy, Italian language, Italian culture and sightseeing, Italian food.

It is not possible to travel now, we can not visit your beautiful country,but we hope to the best time.

Watch this video -music festival

Ciao, 2020

I think you and Mariacristina like this video.

2 Likes

** @helga19 Very ironic!!!‌ :joy: ‌Italy year '70 or ‘80. But I think that the songs was composed for the occasion because I dont’ kown these songs.**
You Know Albano Carrisi the Husband of Romina Power? It was ospite in Mariacristina’s Home for a TV program of RAI1 the principal network in Italy. Dedicated to Mariacristina and Her sister in a TV program where she found her sister after 46 year because his sister was adopted cause the died of the father.

kiss

Paolo

1 Like

Rai 1 " Cosi Lontani , cos’ vicini"

The story of Mariacristina and Tatiana start to 1 minute to 28 minutes, I am sorry but is only in italian, I don’t if you are able to translate. Have You even seen @ErmesT @AntonellaGr

Love

Paolo

3 Likes

@helga19 In the video yu’ll see more clips of Vicenza and Treviso , Is all realty not fiction! I crie also today after 6 years

2 Likes

Thank you @plavarda for your reply.

Sure, it is humorous Russian program.

The Russian TV channel write that thousands of Italians watch this “Chiao 2020” and Italian newspaper write about this show.

Sure, I know Albano Carrisi, husband Ramona Power.

It is interesting fact about Maria Cristina and her sister.

Have you got a link to this program in Italian TV channel ?

Best regards to your wife,

Have a nice weekend!

Inna

1 Like

Dear @plavarda

Thank you for the link to the program.

I watch it today.

After I wrote the comments.

My best regards,

Inna

1 Like

Hello dear @plavarda

Hello dear Mariacristina.

I watched this touching story to the point of tears .The content of it I understood, it is difficult not to perceive the emotional emotions of the two sisters. Of course, I didn’t understand a lot, because I didn’t find a translation into Russian or English. I had a lot of questions, because I didn’t understand from the beginning.

Mariacristina’s sister is named after the beautiful Russian name Tatiana. Were there any Russians in her family? Is Tatiana a native sister or a cousin? How wonderful it is that close people met after many, many years…, almost half a century. How excited they were before the meeting, their emotions cannot be expressed in words! It is wonderful that there is such a project on television that connects native people, with different destinies, who have lost each other. Vicenza and Treviso are not so far away by distance and now you can see more often families. The sisters are very similar. Albano and Paola had a wonderful program, it was nice to see Albano after so many years. I watched a lot of videos on YouTube about his creative work and future fate. I liked his songs with Ramina very much. Thank you for sharing this story.

Best regards from Russia, :two_hearts:

Inna

@helga19 Dear Inna, I’ll briefly tell you the story of this meeting.
Maricristina was born in 1958 and Tatiana (so called because her mother read many love novels and many were set in Russia) was born in 1968, there were 7 brothers in total, 4 girls and 3 boys. In 1970 the father who was a photographer in Asiago, one of the most important tourist resorts in the Veneto region, our region, died leaving the 7 children and the mother alone. The mother, a simple woman, is not helped by any relative, on the contrary, she has to leave the beautiful house that should have belonged to the 7 children but had been bought with deception by a relative (this obviously is not mentioned in the Albano show) . Think this house in the center of Asiago was sold for one million euros at the beginning of the 2000s. The mother works and Mariacristina has to be a mother to all the other children, she is twelve years old, but she had already started doing from mom with her father’s illness to the hospital. Here the adventures of the 7 children begin, the mother is unable to carry on the family and is forced to put the 7 children in an orphanage. Always in a deceptive way, the religious sisters of the orphanage make the mother sign papers for the adoptability of the 3 youngest children, but she was convinced that it was only a form of foster care that she could then take them with her the children once again later.
One day Mariacristina returning from school in the orphanage, she no longer finds the 3 little brothers and from there she no longer talks to anyone or almost anyone, she closes up like a hedgehog. Mariacristina leaves the boarding school at 18 and she gets married immediately, she has four children (beautiful). Somehow over the years, the 4 older brothers, always united with each other, managed to re-meet 2 of the younger brothers but only because the two of them set out in search of the family of origin. In Italy it is impossible for the family of origin to find out where your adopted brother is, only he can do it with a request to the judge or with some fortuitous case. In fact, they were two fortuitous cases. The male found in his military enrollment papers that his original surname was Fossa and that he had been adopted. While the sister found the documents relating to the adoption in the safe of the father (judge). So they searched and found the 4 older brothers. Tatiana knew at the age of 24 that she was adopted, but her mother told her that she was only child, and mother and father was died, so she never attempted the search for the family of origin. Mariacristina every year since she and I have been together, on August 28th she said to me: “Today is my sister Tatiana’s birthday”. The day of her father’s death and that of Tatiana’s birthday were for her, who is always cheerful, the saddest days of the year. We’re in the 2014. Looking at a Facebook group of adopted people, always hoping to find Tatiana, she comments on a post “I had a sister too!” . After a few days she is contacted by the Italian Rai RadioTelevisione Italiana asking if she would try to find her sister through the Albano show. At 13.00 she says yes. At 18.00 on the same day, Tatiana returns from work and finds a note in the post office to contact a Rai telephone number. Incredible !!! After a few days the crews arrive at Mariacristina and Tatiana’s house, everything is secret, even the neighbors who see Al Bano ask Mariacristina a lot of questions, but she doesn’t have to speak until the day of the broadcast. A few days before Christmas we go to Treviso. I cannot enter, only Mariacristina, I was out for two hours in the cold, nervous, I knew how important it was for her to find her sister, but it could also be a profound disappointment, none of us knew what Tatiana’s reaction could have been. In fact, in many episodes of the show the thing did not end well. But the authors also confessed to us that perhaps it was the most beautiful story that had happened in the transmission. It was What could happen to everyone, no like so many sons of a father who has a child out of wedlock with another woman, here we are talking about brothers, the same mother, the same father. It all ended very well with many tears but also with many smiles, cheerful laughter, as if 44 years had not passed. Mariacristina and Tatiana meet every day with the other 5 brothers by social network, and apart from this lockdown period, once a month we meet in Treviso or Vicenza for a pizza. Dear Inna sorry for the length but I had to summarize the transmission which lasted 30 minutes. It was all true apart from a few scenes that they had to shoot several times, but the tears you see are few, there were moments that both Mariacristina and Tatiana had to stop the recording because they could not speak anymore from how many tears came from the eyes. If you have any other questions about this beautiful story I will be happy to answer you.

With love

Paolo

2 Likes

Thank you so much dear @plavarda

Paolo, you write incredible story with happy ending.,I am glad that you have time to answer my question. Now I understand the content the video, thanks for you.

It was hard time for Mariacristina to help mother grow younger brothers and after be in orphanage.

Now they all together -Brothers and two sisters and communicate with each other -it is great!

Do brothers or sisters know where their mother is buried?

It is a pity that the family house is not preserved, that other people own it.

I wish you nice evening,

Best regards to Mariacristina.,

Take care of her, she is very beautiful and lovely woman.

Best wishes from Russia,

Inna

1 Like

@helga19

the ashes of the mother are at the home of the second child Tiziana. When the 7 brothers get together, for some party, even the mother is there in the room and they talk to her even joking about the sad moments that life reserved for them when they were little. I’ll have to decide to write a book but I’m afraid 10 packs of paper won’t be enough to write the adventures of Mariacristina’s family! A series of many seasons for netflix , :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Kisses

Paolo

1 Like