To Siberia
“But we had earthworks going back two hundred years, and a shipyard with more than a hundred workers and a lunch-break siren that could be heard all over the town at noon. We had a harbor for fishing boats where the throbbing of the trawlers’ motors never stopped, and boats came in from the capital, from Sweden and from Norway. If you took the swaying wooden staircase to Pikkerbakken up from Møllehuset and stood by the viewpoint at the top, you could see the sea like an enormous painting when th...e big boats turned in towards the two lighthouses on the breakwater. From the height of Pikkerbakken the sea looked as if it hung rather than lay.I remember how we stood on the quay watching the swells go down the gangway from the Copenhagen boat. They had traveled first class and now they were going to Frydenstrand health resort for the bathing or further on to Skagen by train to rent vacation houses or stay at hotels for the summer weeks. The men wore straw boaters and the ladies’ dresses were bright in the sunshine.MoreLess
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