COPENHAGEN IS’ one of those se ies where you
ean’ * h ip but feel like. you’ve lived there before. _

. é swarthy. old
queen of the sea...’ oe or,
better yet, blame.the builders...
of thé. eternal: Tivoli
Gardens, the’ granddaddy’ of

- Disneylands, ore if none of

; i “b

openhagen has:
in: her: histo:

decided, : wisely I think, to.

preserve. the city like a: ship
ina bottle, as it were. :

| That is, except for a cou-
ple of modern hotels built by
Scandinavian Airline System

“(SAS) and the intrusion of

_ Several , Mc Donald's restau-
“rants: tthe Golden’ "Arches re-

‘it is nearly impossible te te tear.
any existing structure down

‘or even, for that matter, to ~
the ‘exterior; color, -

alter
schemes, instali skylights or
replace ancient or near-an-
cient window frames. In the

-suburbs, it’s different, and -
‘there are outlying industrial

areas where the factories are .
‘indistinguishable from fac-
tories anywhere else in? the ~

Pthe heart of.
as been frozen.

in time;.a kindof: fairy-tale® *.
city that would still be large-,

- <lys recognized by ‘its:- most.

as 25-minutes per day:

You dont have to be

famous’: “story ’ teller; Hans

Christian Andersen,

died a century ago.”°
The Tivoli Gardens, which

Copenhagen: does—has
probably not: changed a bit.
Or if- it has,-the difference

would only be in a few. of ©
the more modern rides, and
“games. ‘The park lights" up ‘
the early Danish ‘dusk. with

“hundreds of thousands of:
‘lamps: and regular fireworks .
‘displays. -

who

any” changes are ‘even more ~
strictly regulated than the ci-, “fi

itself, but. there’ is: a
distinct. feeling of. ‘Slipping

he often visited—everyone in’. back through time into one’s.

‘ching:

on... the . stage of - “the

’ Chinese. Peacock | ‘Theatre
. the'sense of deja vu is almos

‘Maybe it-has something to -

do with the fact that the
parkis 200 years old, and

after this “one.
oo delight,

- Haven’ EUS been here? be- =
“fore? Surely. I feel 50. at.

ut it is probably: ‘just

- that-every. carnival in the last,

two .centuries was modelled.
And so’a
once uniquely.

the :moming and two return trips in
the afternoon.

L longer pickt up passengers .
in downtown Vancouver: on the

Fath ea Ae eran Ge

ee

‘to figure out that this j
ubstantial amount of.