So this is my evening in Aarhus. It’s a beautiful city. If I was single, I’d move here.

The train

I got off the train, found a map of the city, and saw that I could get to the hotel by walking up a pedestrian street. It didn’t look like a bad walk, and I figured I could use the exercise.

Let’s see, can I find the pedestrian street? Where could it be? Hmmm…..

Walking down the Ryesgade

Hey, there’s a canal!

It goes this way, too!

Another view of the canal

The hotel

The hotel is very nice, your classic fancy European, with a big heavy key that you leave at the front desk when you go out. For some reason that really impresses me.

After I got unpacked and did some e-mail, I went back out and decided to explore the Latin Quarter. It’s basically a bunch of really charming 18th- and 19th-century buildings, with cobblestone streets. Okay, not bad.

A charming street

Eventually I found a place with a menu that I could read, and wasn’t a McDonalds or Burger King.

The place where I got dinner– shawarma and a “Coca Cola Light,” aka a Diet Coke

Then I wandered around some more.

Some of the sleek modern stores are carved out of lovely old buildings. Improbably, it works

One interesting thing is that a lot of these downtown buildings have apartments above them.

It works here, too

The new reflecting the old

Then I found my way back to the hotel.

Me in the hotel