Boxholms Kommun

For our last day in Denmark we decided that we wanted to do some more bicycling and to combine this with some art galleries. I had mistakenly bought a museum pass at the Rosenburg castle which I was misled to thinking included the National museum. It included the National gallery and the Davis gallery. We rented bikes from a different bike shop around the corner from where we were staying. Uptown bikes. As Chris said afterwards it seemed a little shady. I felt I was doing some sort of drug deal. I guess they weren't use to cash transaction. I just would not have liked leaving my credit card number with them. We cycled the long way to the National Gallery. Everyone had an hour to immerse themselves in art. I made a beeline for the Danish collection and thoroughly enjoyed the paintings by artists that were unknown to me. Cheryl and Madeline concentrated on the modern art and I don't know what Chis and Andrew did although I kept meeting up with them. We ate lunch in the foyer of the gallery before heading off to cool our feet in the pool out front. I am not sure whether this constituted a traditional visit to a gallery but every seemed happy. Our next stop on our bikes just a few blocks away behind the Rosenburg Castle was the Davis collection. Davis was a wealthy lawyer/ business man who collected art with an interest in Islamic antiquities. On his death in the 1960s he had left his house and collection to be used to establish an art gallery. The main collection consisted of Islamic antiquities dating back to 700 AD divided by region. They had a page from one of the earliest Korans in 700AD which had been erased and written over again. Lots of calligraphy in stone and wood. Ornate jewelry. There was a glass appearing container which had been carved out of a crystal. Obviously Islam punched much higher culturally then Western Europe during the dark ages. I think it was probably one of the most pleasant galleries that I have seen in ages. After 45 minutes though we had to leave as this was all the time we had allotted. We finished the day with a swim in the first canal pool we had gone to and then returned the bikes to the money laundering bike shop. As it was our last night in Copenhagen we started packing up for our departure the next day for Stockholm .Okumaya devam et