Send in the clowns

September seems to be circus month in Copenhagen, there have been a few different circuses advertised around our suburb lately. I can’t even remember the last time I heard of a circus in Australia …

Recently, while we were in Spain over Summer, we saw a circus tent and had wanted to go while we were there but unfortunately they didn’t have a show on the night we wanted to go so since then, we decided that if we could find a circus in Copenhagen, Hugo could go. Sure enough, within weeks posters started appearing everywhere advertising the BEST! circus in Denmark, Denmark’s PREMIER! circus, the NUMBER ONE! circus … (these are all different circuses!).

Cirkus Dannebrog* set up it’s big top just outside the post office here in Østerbro last week, and purely by virtue of it’s closeness, Hugo went to their show this weekend. He loved the clowns (and understood their crazy antics, even though it was all in Danish), the performing dogs, the horses … but the highlight (well, for me at least) was that he got to RIDE AN ELEPHANT.

Like I said, I’m not aware of any circuses in Australia, but even if they’re out there I’m pretty sure (public liability being the issue that it is in Australia) that riding an elephant is NOT part of the show. He was all very down to earth and serious about it. No, he wasn’t scared at all.

* Dannebrog, just by way of interest, is the name given to the Danish flag (literally, Danish cloth). The flag is used for all occasions here, particularly birthdays. When we first arrived, I thought there were an awful lot of national holidays because nearly every week I’d see Danish flags everywhere, but it just turned out to be different birthday celebrations.