On procrastination, ice cream and LinkedIn Yesterday I sat at one of the cafés on the main pedestrian street in the centre of Aalborg. It is a board game café with which I’ve developed a love-hate relationship – loving the coffee, hating the 45 Danish kroner per person price for playing board games. Until coming […]
Several worlds exist for me in this city. I will describe a few of them: The room It is some kind of time limbo and a retreat where I can rest from other worlds. Recently, I’ve been doing most of my work (a word I proudly use as an umbrella for studying or writing) in
An extraterrestrial land stretches a few kilometres along the west coast of Denmark, just an hour’s drive from Aalborg. Rubjerg Knude, a sight known for its desert-like terrain, is an unexpected visual surprise this far north of the equator. Amid the hundred-metre-tall sand dunes, a lighthouse appears—shrouded in a story of its own, a story
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About an hour’s drive west from Aalborg stands Bulbjerg Knude, the only cliff in the whole of the Jutland Peninsula. The road from Aalborg roughly follows the fjord that cuts through Jutland, separating Northern Jutland as an island. The presence of saltwater transforms the landscape into a hybrid of farmlands and seaside towns, and the
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It sometimes seems like an impossible task to calm down the thoughts. I start meditating, but then I realise that I’m just thinking, entertaining myself with different scenarios and possibilities. I guess that’s not bad either, but it’s quite the opposite of what I should be doing. What about that paradox that we can’t meditate,
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I boarded the train to Frederikshavn this morning at 11.14. It rolled gradually across the railway towards the very top of Denmark, and I disembarked in the port from which fery lines operate across the Kategat sea. The ferry was visible from a far, a white ship with blue and red letters of Stena Line
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