Wednesday, March 14, 2007

I have finally found her!

One of the most famous tourist attraction in Denmark is the statue of the little mermaid immortalized and inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, “The Little Mermaid”. In the summer of 1995, my family and I were passing through Copenhagen. For hours we drove around the capital in search of this famous statue. Alas, we never did find the little mermaid.


For the past three months, I have been to Copenhagen seven times already. Rarely did I ever see the sun shine as much as this week. According to the kind and gentile taxi driver I met yesterday, he informed me that the little mermaid was not far off from where I was staying. Upon sunrise, I set out on foot with my camera in search of the little mermaid. On my way, I encountered numerous beautiful white swans, also immortalized by Hans Christian Andersen’s tale "The Ugly Duckling". After walking 20 minutes, and inquiring a kind Danish jogger, I finally found the little mermaid, seating upon a rock ...

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