Kurt Andersen on Denmark’s “Touristic Outliers”

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  05.18.06 | 12:05 PM ET

imageLegendary magazine editor and Turn of the Century author Kurt Andersen has a piece in the May issue of Travel + Leisure on Denmark. It’s a journey into the cultural fringes of a place popularly thought of as “sensible, reasonable, healthy, tidy, virtuous, nice.”

The story seems to have been filed before the uproar about the Mohammad cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, but Andersen does visit Christiania, the “Haight-Ashburyesque hippie quarter” in Copenhagen. “Not another planet, but unlike any other place in Europe that I know about,” he writes. “And while the United States is scattered with hippie towns and villages (like Woodstock in New York, Nederland in Colorado, Bisbee in Arizona, Paia on Maui), as far as I know none of them is quite so pure an example of the type as Christiania.”

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