The Little Mermaid

I got up very early and visited Copenhagen's famed "Little Mermaid" statue. She is small (some say she should be called the "Really Little Mermaid" just so people get a sense of what they are about to see.) She kneels on a rock out on the ocean, gazing for a ship to return.

When I went to see her around sunrise, her rock was encrusted with ice.

She was put up there on Aug 23, 1913. She has unfortunately been kidnapped, beheaded and vandalized a number of times in the ensuing years. Some acts were not very violent --- in 2004, she was dressed in burqa.