Finally, a day requiring sunglasses! I met my friend Jane for a coffee at this café on Christianshavn (Christian's harbor). It's another Copenhagen neighborhood just over the bridge, and one of my favorite places in the city. It was traditionally home to merchants, and has narrow houses lining the canals, much like you would see in Amsterdam, so it looks very old and quaint. If you take the canal boat tour here, you'll definitely see it. It's also home to one of the best temptations/bakeries in town, Lagekagehuset (the layer cake house). It's great to pick up a treat and eat it outside by the canal. If you come to visit me here, I'll take you there.
Thomas works near here, on Holmen, which used to be the Navy yards. They've converted the old buildings (and by old, the gunboat house where his office is was built in the 1600s) into offices, apartments and institutions. The Royal Academy of Architecture and the Film School are both here, which was the primary reason for my visit: to check out books on the history of modern architecture, from my summer reading list. While I was there, I picked up a flyer for Thursday's lecture on the role of architecture in James Bond films. Yeah, I think I need to go to that.
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