Denmark is known world wide for lots of different things, and some, which I do not want to name here at all.One of the things I do want to mention is the little Mermaid located at Langelinie in Copenhagen. The little Mermaid could be to Denmark what the Manneken Pis is for Brussels doesn’t look like much, but every tourist has to get there and see it.
Logically I’m not that often in Denmark, and when I’m not in Copenhagen because my relatives and friends lives’ somewhere else. But this summer it happened again that I did a trip to the capitol.
Catriona has never before been to Copenhagen before and I’ve never been to Glasgow either, so because we were going to visit both Scotland and Denmark in summer anyway, so we did a deal and paid a visit to both cities.
In summer Copenhagen can be a real nice experience, though it does depend on the weather, but where doesn’t it.
The long and light summer nights combined with summer temperatures, can keep the most people awake into the long hours - the birds hardly keep quiet either. The Sun sets at around 11:30 PM but still, it doesn’t get really dark, and at about 3 or 3:30 the sun rises again, ready for a new turn.
With it’s about 1 and a bit million inhabitants is Copenhagen the -by all means- biggest city in Denmark and it has a real flair of capitol and metropolis alike, just in a much smaller scale than you will find it in London, Paris or Rome.
One of the biggest attractions is the little Mermaid at Langelinie. Not that it is that big, no in fact it is tiny, and once before I was there, I heard how some other tourist in a low voice told each other, how pathetic small she was, sitting there on a large rock at the edge of the water.This summer though, she wasn’t there. She had taken a trip to Shanghai and the World Expo, where she was one of the big stars. She was sitting on her stone in the Danish pavilion.
A great idea when you ask me. But when that was decided there was a lot of debate going on in the state of Denmark, but that is not what I am going to get into here.
Instead of her at Langelinie in Copenhagen, there was a big screen and a live transmission of the Mermaid on it from Shanghai, filmed in exact the same angle and same size, like the visitors would have seen her “live” at Langelinie.
Only because we did have a hotel close by, we went there to have a look at this “Little Meta Mermaid”, live on screen from Shanghai.I must say I really like the idea with the live streaming of her when she was away on duty, so to speak, and now when the World Expo has finished, she is returning home to her old spot.
And maybe then Denmark should do the same thing with a camera and live broadcast her from there to somewhere. Why? Maybe that could keep her safe and prevent more damage and vandalism like that what has been done to her in the past; twice someone has cut her head of, one time only half, then someone did saw her arm of and she has been dressed in a Burka. (Look here for more.) I am sure that nothing happened to her while she was in China!
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