At the risk of coming across as a bad parent or one with questionable judgment I will tell you another story from our trip to Copenhagen. I can’t remember how it came to be or how much knowledge I had before hand, but while we were in Copenhagen we visited a part of the city called Christiania. To give you a perspective on what this might be leading up to, they don’t allow pictures in this part of the city. Now don’t get the wrong idea. There wasn’t anything too horrible going on…at least on the surface. Christiania is described as a social experiment and a democracy based on dialogue replacing majority voting. Translation – a commune of hippies. To take some additional heat off of myself as a possible bad parent subjecting my kids to an environment of “free living” I will note that there were numerous families and other touristy people roaming the town as we were. To get it out of the way, the worst activity going on in the streets that day was the open sale of marijuana and some drug related paraphernalia. To be fair this wasn’t the only thing going on, but it was surreal to see. The “town” itself consisted of some pretty run down buildings and grounds that led you to believe you were wandering a third world country. There was a moment of tension when a couple of the tourists decided to take a photo or two despite the numerous “NO PHOTOS” signs and pictures. This resulted in a frenzy of yelling and screaming from the pot hazed crowd. I thought it was kind of funny because if those tourists would have just taken their pictures and challenged the pot heads to catch them, the game would have been over right away. There was no way any of the pot crowd was going to be doing any sprinting after tourists. We did have a chance to take a couple of photos on the outskirts of the town that speak to the creativity of the inhabitants, but don’t really have a lot of substance to them. A Google search will give you plenty of images I think.
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