Uddevalla

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Kronborg castle at Helsinger

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The real Hamlet castle is Kronborg. It is situated just across the water with Sweden and is mighty fortified. Below the surface is a maze of bunkers.The Royal family had a nice view and pretty nice ball rooms.

Louisiana - Art museum at Copenhagen

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Ferry to Denmark

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Quick: say this aloud ten times...

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Willy Brandt

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One of the most famous citizens of Lubeck is Willy Brandt. He was born here, fled to Sweden during WWII, became mayor of Berlin (see above with Kennedy and Adenaur) and later of course Prime Minister of West Germany.

What the F**K?

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Lubeck

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Erich Maria Remarque

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Erich Maria Remarque, author of "All quiet at the western front" has his own peace museum in Osnabruck - which tells about his life and novels.

Osnabruck

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Our first Stop is in Osnabruck. Famous for the West Phalen peace treaty of 1648. It happend in this Hall - well almost...,  the whole of Osnabruck was distroyed in September 1944.

On the Road again

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We are on the road again - this time to the very northern part of Europe: The Nordkapp. We will travel through Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.

David Leavitt in Amsterdam

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David Leavitt was in town invited by the John Adams Institute. His talk was funny and interesting, talking about his writing process, his life and his latest novel (which is published in Dutch this week) The Indian Clerk. I read this novel immediately when it came out in the states back in 2007: its a great story about an Indian Clerk - Srinivasa Ramanujan - who comes to Cambridge in the mid 1910's to solve one of the most important mathematical problems of all time. (And falls in love with a handsome soldier). Based on a true story - and beautifully told.

Boring Eros Ramazzotti

Eros Rammazotti's new album Ali e Radici is very dissapointing. It's boring, without interesting lyrics: Eros we heard this all before - by the way: this guy really got old looking ;-)

Carmen at the Opera with the amazing Yonghoon Lee

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Georges Bizet's Carmen can be a little bit of a drag - it's a sort of classical top 40. Come in Yonghoon Lee - a tenor from South Korea: he blew the audience away with his beautiful powerful voice at tonight's premiere at the DNO.

Sunday's Best: Top ten ebooks in my iLiad

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With my Norddkap trip just days away it is time to decide with books to load on my iliad. Of the 50 books I will take with me (I expect long days because of the midsummer nights...) I am looking forward the most to these titels:
  1. At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life - Wade Rouse
  2. No Second Chance - Harlan Coben
  3. 44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith
  4. The memoirs of a beautiful boy - Robert Leleux
  5. Just too good to be true - E. Lynn Harris
  6. Exiles in America - Christopher Bram
  7. The Book of Useless Information - Noel Botham
  8. Het Diner - Herman Koch
  9. The Works (60 novels) - Charles Dickens
  10. NRC Handelsblad
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