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They are 3D-printing a new street in our neighbourhood

Vestergade, mid-city Aarhus, Denmark. A lovely narrow old street that is, after a few years' trial, being turned permanently into a Quiet Street - cars may drive here, but only slowly, and bikes and pedestrians have priority. The council is planting trees, widening the pavement café and seating spaces, and laying a nice new chessboard-like brick surface. The surface is designed to slow down bikes too. It is the first place in Denmark that is being paved with a Dan Jord RoadPrinter - a Dutch brick paver that rolls out complete stretches of road from a machine, as if you are winding a continuous sheet of paper out from a huge roll of paper. Photo taken with permission - I have turned into one of those Auld Lads who stand there, hands behind my back, watching them at work, fascinated by the process, interrupting them with questions including 'may I take some photos?' This photo: Sun shining. A close-up of the machine seen from the side over Work In Progress metal barricades. A yellow half-timbered café and house opposite us. We can clearly see the bricks being wound like one ready-made carpet out of the machine, slowly falling into place on the flat surface where several men in high-vis yellow gear are at work - laying, sweeping, fixing.

Seen from the back, behind building paraphernalia and a huge bag of concrete or some such - a vew of the brick road being wound out of the machine. A cyclist is just passing on the pavement alongside. Same general description from first photo now follows, so skip if already heard: Vestergade, mid-city Aarhus, Denmark. A lovely narrow old street that is, after a few years' trial, being turned permanently into a Quiet Street - cars may drive here, but only slowly, and bikes and pedestrians have priority. The council is planting trees, widening the pavement café and seating spaces, and laying a nice new chessboard-like brick surface. The surface is designed to slow down bikes too. It is the first place in Denmark that is being paved with a Dan Jord RoadPrinter - a Dutch brick paver that rolls out complete stretches of road from a machine, as if you are winding a continuous sheet of paper out from a huge roll of paper. Photo taken with permission - I have turned into one of those Auld Lads who stand there, hands behind my back, watching them at work, fascinated by the process, interrupting them with questions including 'may I take some photos?

Another angle of the same road work as in the first photo. This time we can see further along the street to a section not yet laid - just dirt on the surface. Same general description from first photo now follows, so skip if already heard: Vestergade, mid-city Aarhus, Denmark. A lovely narrow old street that is, after a few years' trial, being turned permanently into a Quiet Street - cars may drive here, but only slowly, and bikes and pedestrians have priority. The council is planting trees, widening the pavement café and seating spaces, and laying a nice new chessboard-like brick surface. The surface is designed to slow down bikes too. It is the first place in Denmark that is being paved with a Dan Jord RoadPrinter - a Dutch brick paver that rolls out complete stretches of road from a machine, as if you are winding a continuous sheet of paper out from a huge roll of paper. Photo taken with permission - I have turned into one of those Auld Lads who stand there, hands behind my back, watching them at work, fascinated by the process, interrupting them with questions including 'may I take some photos?

A finished section of the 'printed' brick surface - a long stretch of perfectly laid bricks. On both sides: small businesses and cafes and cyclists and pedestrians on the pavement alongside. Same general description from first photo now follows, so skip if already heard: Vestergade, mid-city Aarhus, Denmark. A lovely narrow old street that is, after a few years' trial, being turned permanently into a Quiet Street - cars may drive here, but only slowly, and bikes and pedestrians have priority. The council is planting trees, widening the pavement café and seating spaces, and laying a nice new chessboard-like brick surface. The surface is designed to slow down bikes too. It is the first place in Denmark that is being paved with a Dan Jord RoadPrinter - a Dutch brick paver that rolls out complete stretches of road from a machine, as if you are winding a continuous sheet of paper out from a huge roll of paper. Photo taken with permission - I have turned into one of those Auld Lads who stand there, hands behind my back, watching them at work, fascinated by the process, interrupting them with questions including 'may I take some photos?

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Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well.

Water’s edge, mid-city Aarhus. To the left, a pier lined by buildings in distinctive triangular and rectangular shapes. These include Kampanilen, a 19-storey red-brick apartment tower with a gigantic built-in glass window near the top that is an actual clock. Across the water, industrial cranes like giant’s chairs. The sky is light blue with wispy white clouds. The sea is rippling with luscious deep blues. Dotted around in the sea below cable tracks, bright white water-sport ramps. Alone on the water, in the middle, a wakeboarder. They have zoomed from the left towards where we’re standing, creating a wide wake of white foam that stops abruptly in front of us as they’ve just turned around to go back. An energetic sight.

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My neighbour's dog is wearing antlers, my boss is wearing a Santy hat, my colleague is wearing a jumper with Christmas tree lights and it's the last Monday at the office this year. But you're not fooling me, Monday. I see you. I recognise you. You're still Monday. Anyway. Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus to wish you a good day and a good week.

Standing on an outer edge of a pier at the harbour in Aarhus, Denmark, looking back towards the city skyline. It’s a freezing day, last December, noon, but there’s hardly any light. Everything seems monochrome. The sky is a blob of grey. The seawater is black black black cold black. It slices a dark triangle through the scene, stopping at a point where it meets the bright white snow on the pier to the right. There isn’t a person, boat or bird in sight. Beyond, the city skyline with picturesque historic buildings, dominated by the snow-covered cathedral spire and the snow-covered turrets on the old customs house. The older buildings are redbrick, a slight tinge of colour among all the black and grey and white, but muted by the falling snow. The skyline looks sort of sepia, as if this were an old photo of the city.

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‘Twas the Monday before Christmas. Glædelig mandag. Here's a Christmas card from #Aarhus to wish you a good day and a good week and a glædelig jul.

Taken in a snowstorm last December, a view of a snow-covered pier at the harbour, mid-city, Aarhus, Denmark. Falling snowflakes blur in streaks from a grey, snow-filled sky. In front of us, an expanse of grey-white snow with just a few footprints in it. To the right, a snowy slope with straggly tall grasses poking up through the snow. Rising beyond in the distance, barely visible through the fog of snow, the shapes of an oblong and a triangular building, misty and grey, like ghost buildings. To the left, a clump of bushy evergreen trees. Their branches are trimmed in snow, as if they’re auditioning for a part in a Christmas card. Everything is muted, almost monochrome. Except, in the middle, we see the city’s name spelled out in separate, giant, vivid red block letters, each about 3 metres high. A A R H U S. This is the Aarhus city sign that greets visitors arriving by sea. Not to be outdone by mere trees, each letter is Christmasly edged in snow too.

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16th century emoji

#Aarhus
#DenGamleBy

On cobblestone street, close-up of a section of wall of a house from 1500s in Den Gamle By Old Town open-air museum, Aarhus, Denmark. Foundation is black bricks. Main section is rust-red bricks, laid in sections both vertically and horizontally, criss-crossed with dark red wooden timbers. Two small wooden shutters with tiny openings are set in between timbers at a middle point, light reflecting off them. A small arch vent is embedded in the black bricks at the bottom. It struck me that the effect is accidentally a bit like a face - the two shutter eyes above timbers that run down like a nose to the open arch like a mouth. Like a 'scared, nervous face' emoji.

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