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First, j_daffodil wanted to see my place of work. Which would be this place - admittedly, it's a little hard to get a good picture of a library inside a small shopping center (but you're not making me take a picture of the center itself - it's downright ugly. Looks like something from, I don't know, the old DDR maybe? And me who used to think Prøvestenen in Elsinore had the distinction of ugliest center in the country...)
Right, then there's quaryn_dk, who wanted me to go down to the ferry from England. So I followed the signs...
...down into a quite frankly not very nice industrial harbour - definitely not the place to randomly hang around - and found the ferry from Harwich...
...and no, didn't speak with any random strangers, but I did get a picture of a pretty colourful truck.
And finally, jenlan wanted to see a museum or a church - and a street that caught my fancy. Of course, I can't limit myself. So, in reverse order, let's start with the street. Which would be the local pedestrian street at a not so busy point of time.
Then a church - now, Esbjerg is a pretty new town, so there's no beautiful, medieval churches around here - but on the other hand, it's a pretty typical westcoast town, in that churches blossom here - both normal ones (by which I mean Danish Church churches...) and various others (like Mormons, for instance). Loads. But I'm not going to run around taking pictures of all of them.
Unsurprisingly, they're mostly red brick. Right, just one more church - Sædden Kirke (no giggle from the peanut gallery, thank you) - which is actually part of the ugly shopping center mentioned earlier...
And last but not least - a museum. Well, museums. Some counterweight for all those churches... let's start with the local maritime museum / aquarium / seal-arium.
Admittedly, not the most impressive from the outside. Neither is the local museum of modern art - inside it's okay. No Louisiana, but still - nice. (Of course, visiting for free on culture night automatically upgrades many things - you should try being inside a water tower echoing with opera - now that's cool.)
And, finally, more red brick. The bookprinting museum.
I kind of fell for this stone out front. Also, the museum had this really cool old machine - not working, sadly - that looked like it would make a fine model for the world's coolest (albeit pretty impractical) steampunk computer thing. It's the one on the right if you click on Sætteri.
Og så får I ikke mere for den 25-øre.
Right, then there's quaryn_dk, who wanted me to go down to the ferry from England. So I followed the signs...
...down into a quite frankly not very nice industrial harbour - definitely not the place to randomly hang around - and found the ferry from Harwich...
...and no, didn't speak with any random strangers, but I did get a picture of a pretty colourful truck.
And finally, jenlan wanted to see a museum or a church - and a street that caught my fancy. Of course, I can't limit myself. So, in reverse order, let's start with the street. Which would be the local pedestrian street at a not so busy point of time.
Then a church - now, Esbjerg is a pretty new town, so there's no beautiful, medieval churches around here - but on the other hand, it's a pretty typical westcoast town, in that churches blossom here - both normal ones (by which I mean Danish Church churches...) and various others (like Mormons, for instance). Loads. But I'm not going to run around taking pictures of all of them.
Unsurprisingly, they're mostly red brick. Right, just one more church - Sædden Kirke (no giggle from the peanut gallery, thank you) - which is actually part of the ugly shopping center mentioned earlier...
And last but not least - a museum. Well, museums. Some counterweight for all those churches... let's start with the local maritime museum / aquarium / seal-arium.
Admittedly, not the most impressive from the outside. Neither is the local museum of modern art - inside it's okay. No Louisiana, but still - nice. (Of course, visiting for free on culture night automatically upgrades many things - you should try being inside a water tower echoing with opera - now that's cool.)
And, finally, more red brick. The bookprinting museum.
I kind of fell for this stone out front. Also, the museum had this really cool old machine - not working, sadly - that looked like it would make a fine model for the world's coolest (albeit pretty impractical) steampunk computer thing. It's the one on the right if you click on Sætteri.
Og så får I ikke mere for den 25-øre.
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