In other news, Jackie and I visited the Glyptotek yesterday; the museum's name actually means something akin to "collection of sculptures," and that is indeed what we saw. Lots of marble (and bronze and wood)-- the catch is that most of them were made in the last couple of centuries, so the poses and styles are a bit different than, say, Renaissance art. You also get busts of Victor Hugo and the like. There was an excellent French selection (Degas! Little Dancers!) and a bunch of Van Goghs and Impressionist work, which we definitely preferred to the ancient artifact rooms. I'm starting to be really impressed with the productivity of the Greeks and Egyptians, though-- it seems like every museum has wings for artifacts from those two ancient societies, so they must have left behind and preserved an awful lot.
I was going to spend this afternoon exploring, but the weather is frigid and windy and overcast today, so I'm thinking a better use of time would be working-- I have a test, paper, and in-class debate tomorrow, and it'd be nice to get a chunk of work for next week done so I can really enjoy my weekend in Cambridge with Andy, which starts tomorrow night!
In other news, there's a bagel place right near DIS that serves tomato bagels warm with pesto cream cheese. Holy cow. This is the happiest place on Earth. And you thought Mickey Mouse was a necessary ingredient!
UPDATE: I decided to brave the weather and wandered all the way to the end of the Strøget to Kongens Nytorv (big round plaza with a seasonal skating rink) and wandered up and down Nyhavn (the short stretch of old harbor that you see in all the pictures), finally. Not the nicest day for it, but the area's adorable with lots of nice-looking restaurants and a bar called Havfrue with a carved mermaid out front that made me think of home :)
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