Bye Mermaid

Perhaps it's not a good news to tourists / visitors who plan to visit Copenhagen & take picture with the world famous Little Mermaid statue. The Danish council has decided to let the mermaid take a little tour to China for a period of a little less than a year.

For more info, read this:-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/13/little-mermaid-copenhagen-china

Well, the mermaid has been through some bad 'treatments' in Copenhagen: heads stolen, arm sawed, vandalized, painted etc...but I still think it's rightful place is where it is, right here, right now . Why not just mock up a statue to place in the China expo?

I'm not sure how the decision was reached but even just as a visiting 'worker' in Copenhagen, I feel the lost of moving the mermaid to China, even just for less than a year. Despite the fact that it's small, it is a symbol and an icon of the city, sigh...Politics is always complicated.

So for those of you who wants to visit Little Mermaid in Copenhagen this coming year, maybe it'd be easier to just change the ticket to China... :s