The Susanne

Just back from Copen­ha­gen. Two and a half days in utter luxury: duck breast and oven roas­ted lamb for dinner, two hour break­fast buf­fets with waiters attend­ing to my every wish, and lob­ster and oysters for lunch. I’ve fallen in love with the life­style and plan to marry up. And I’ve also fallen in love with Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) and I want to read everything she’s ever writ­ten! I’m read­ing Winter’s Tales at the moment, I want to go on to Out of Africa and Seven Gothic Tales and I want to re-​read Babette’s Feast which I remem­ber read­ing in school but I don’t remem­ber the story. Karen Blixen must be the greatest story teller I know of.

I man­aged to leave the memory card for my camera in my com­puter at home so sadly there are no good pic­tures but here is one I took with my camera phone of the place we were stay­ing, Schæffergården. Am apply­ing for a schol­ar­ship for a two week summer course there in June: two weeks of Danish con­tem­por­ary lit­er­at­ure and being waited on hand and foot — not too shabby eh?

Must also men­tion the luxury of being able to sit down with a glass of wine and talk about lit­er­at­ure with two of the most know­ledge­able pro­fess­ors in Nordic lit­er­at­ure at my uni­ver­sity. Priceless!

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