Daily Post 23 October, 2014

Beautiful Fall colors across the river from my office.

Daily Photo 22 October, 2014

Nellie's Coffee and Wine Bar.  Our apartment is the entire floor directly above it.

Oh the aromas!

Photo Diary 21 October, 2014

The new "Super Highway" in Odense

Photo Diary 20 October, 2014

One of my orchids in our apartment.  I have six now.  I can't believe how well they are doing

Harry Potter Festival

This weekend, all the "Muggles" in Odense were taken over by Wizards!!!!  Harry Potter was in town.  And wow, does the city of Odense know how to host a festival.

One of the city squares was full of tents for children (of ages mind you) to practice spells, mix potions, purchase magic wands, and for two days, "live" in the world of Harry Potter.

It was amazing to see all the children dressed in full "Hogwarts" gear.  I saw more cloaks, Gryffindor scarfs, lightning scars, wands and round glasses then I had ever seen in one place.   Lord Voldemort and Dementors were everywhere.

It was great to see kids running around, waving wands, casting spells, and really getting into character.  And all the "bad guys" would react to spells, freezing, or running away.

   

There were "real Unicorns"!!

 

 And tiny wizards

 

There were exhibits at the local museum.  These are actual flying brooms.

Ghosts

 
All sorts of exhibits

Floating candles

Dragon Skeletons

And dragon eggs

The knight is the guy on the left

We saw characters all day long

Hagrid

Lord Voldemort and his henchman

Dementors attacked people in the square

And kids with magic wands chased them away

Even Snape was there

Jelly beans of ALL flavors

You could have your photo taken at Platform 9 3/4

 

Owls for sending messages

And Dobby the house elf was wandering around

And you could shop for a Magic Wand at Ollivander's

I even met Dumbledore!

And yes, I did get my very own magic wand.  Unfortunately it came with limited powers.

Photo Diary 19 October, 2014

My Sunday morning ritual, coffee and chocolate muffin at Lagkagehuse, my favorite bakery in Odense

Photo Diary 18 October, 2014

Every time I pass this sign outside the "Odense Condom Shop", I feel very inadequate.

Photo Diary 17 October, 2014

The FAF grain silo across the water from my office. 

FAF stands for "Fyns Andels Foderstofforretning", or the Funen Cooperative for Feed.

Photo Diary 16 October, 2014

Detail of Iron work on the empty building next to OMT Headquarters.

I took this one today in between the rain showers.

Photo Diary 15 October 2014

I took this photo at 06:30 this morning as I was heading to my bicycle to go to work.

It had rained last night, all the streets were wet. 

I like the way the lights reflected off the different textures of the road.

Photo Diary 14 October 2014

I'm going to try something new starting today.

Besides my weekly posting on Sunday, I'm going to take a photo everyday and post it, with a description.

I'm not sure how this will work, but it sounds like a good idea to me.

"Sounds like a good idea to me" is usually how I get into trouble.

OMT has a Chef that prepares our lunch everyday.  Chef Jan and his assistant Ann are amazing.  Each day we have a selection of breads, cold cuts, cheeses, vegetables, a main entre (salmon, beef, chicken, pork, trout........) And usually three types of salad.  Today's photo is of a wonderful salad they prepared.

Three different kinds of lettuce, red onions, cucumbers, miniature corn, snow peas, green and red cherry tomatoes, green and black olives, and grapes.  And that was just one of the salads.

Cars and Motorcycles (and a few Air Planes)

As I promised last week, this week is all about the cars, motorcycles, and everything else we saw at Egeskov Castle last week.

The Veteran Car Museum was founded on the grounds of the castle in 1967.  There are eight air planes, a helicopter, and over 50 restored and maintained automobiles, from the end of the the 19th century to the 1980s.

 Double Decker Bus from London

 Morgan

 1948 Cadillac Fleetwood

 1950 French Rovin

 This is a Messershmitt from 1963.  It had a clear top

 MGA

 1933 French "Mignet".  This was a Do-It-Self kit plane that used an automobile engine

 Draken Saab F-35

 

 And just when we thought we were done with Cars, stairs led us to an attic full of cars waiting to be restored

And then, the Motorcycles.

1954 Scooter with a side car

 An 82 year old "hoarder" had this Harley hidden in a garage in Denmark, covered in junk.  He didn't know he had it until someone spotted the rear fender under debris and rescued it.

 This is a 1915 Henderson.  This motorcycle was buried in the ground under a workshop in 1940 and was found, and restored!

I have only shown some of the cars, planes and motorcycles Mary and I saw that day.  I had my eye on several of the cars, but I could not figure out how to get them back on the train with me.  I'm still working on it.


One final photo from our trip to Egeskov.  I forgot to post this one last week.  This was on certain doors and needs no explanation.