I’m waiting for a flight to London where I’ll meet up with my Mum and sister for the weekend. I thought I’d do a quick post showing some of the work I’ve been doing in Denmark. This story and photos came out of my week spent in Copenhagen. Safe injection rooms to open in troubled Vesterbro area. By Bridget Honan. http://vva.org/blog/?p=3286 Early morning in Vesterbro. Drug users will soon be able to inject in clean,private rooms as Vesterbro prepares to open their first injection room…

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House in Christiania. Leonie and I left our new journo friend Claus in his apartment at 2am with music blasting and empty bottles of Spanish champagne on his table. buy discount cialis Waking up at 7am the next morning was not an enlightening prospect, especially when it was assignment day. Traipsing around the city of Copenhagen looking for stories and playing the role of foriegn correspondents usually requires a somewhat sober state, which at this point in time I seemed to be lacking. But with…

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Politiken offices, Copenhagen. I’m in Copenhagen this week for a school trip. Our teacher, Asbjorn was so kind as to set us up with a bunch of appointments with organizations including Berlingske Media, the European Environmental Agency and the Danish Defence Force. Myself and many of my classmates were then so kind as to nearly miss all of those appointments. Copenhagen really is a biking city, possibly because there’s no way in hell you can rely on the buses to get you there on time.…

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One thing I’ve really noticed about Denmark is how gentrified certain areas are. There’s actually a “ghetto list”. If more than half an area’s residents are immigrants, if 40% are unemployed and 270 out of 10,000 residents have a conviction, the area makes the list. Bazar Vest is a market place out in one of these ghetto areas and i spent a day there wandering around. The stall holders are immigrants from countries like Palestine, Turkey, Lebanon, Somalia, Syria. Chatting to the shopkeepers, eating Turkish…

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