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I can't tell how much I'm spending without my iPad's currency converter,
but other than that, Denmark is a wonderful and wonderfully civilized country 8-) Tomorrow the major part of the sightseeing gets moving here in the Faroes. -- biblioholic medievalist |
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"Erilar" wrote in message ... I can't tell how much I'm spending without my iPad's currency converter, As a Brit, Denmark is easy. It's had a 10 to 1 exchange rate for most of the past 20 years. Even as an American I would have thought that using 10 to 1 gets you close enough. It will just make the cost of things in DK look reasonable instead of the humongously expensive reality. but other than that, Denmark is a wonderful and wonderfully civilized country 8-) Tomorrow the major part of the sightseeing gets moving here in the Faroes. As someone with a Historical bent I've never found much of interest in DK Apart from "Hamlet's" [1] castle, the Viking ship museum and a couple of "palaces" in the city, what is there? Of course, you can always spend an hour visiting "the second most underwhelming world-famous-statue in a European capital" (that's 29 minutes each way to walk there and 10 seconds to take the compulsory photo). And students of literature will want to visit Karen Blixen's house tim [1] I don't know why it seems necessary to put that in quotes, it really is Hamlet's castle. I suppose the point is that Hamlet wasn't a real person, presumably, as the castle is real, the character in the play was a caricature of a real person. But I could be completely wrong here |
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As someone with a Historical bent I've never found much of interest
in DK Apart from "Hamlet's" [1] castle, the Viking ship museum and a couple of "palaces" in the city, what is there? Of course, you can always spend an hour visiting "the second most underwhelming world-famous-statue in a European capital" (that's 29 minutes each way to walk there and 10 seconds to take the compulsory photo). And students of literature will want to visit Karen Blixen's house Lego. And pig farming. http://www.quadrantaustralia.com/Far...candinavia.asp http://www.ciwf.org.uk/our-campaigns...nvestigations/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 11:02:56 AM UTC+1, Jack Campin wrote:
As someone with a Historical bent I've never found much of interest in DK Apart from "Hamlet's" [1] castle, the Viking ship museum and a couple of "palaces" in the city, what is there? Of course, you can always spend an hour visiting "the second most underwhelming world-famous-statue in a European capital" (that's 29 minutes each way to walk there and 10 seconds to take the compulsory photo). And students of literature will want to visit Karen Blixen's house Lego. And pig farming. http://www.quadrantaustralia.com/Far...candinavia.asp http://www.ciwf.org.uk/our-campaigns...nvestigations/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin Lego's at Windsor, UK. |
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"Martin" wrote in message ... On Sat, 02 May 2015 11:02:53 +0100, Jack Campin wrote: As someone with a Historical bent I've never found much of interest in DK Apart from "Hamlet's" [1] castle, the Viking ship museum and a couple of "palaces" in the city, what is there? The rest of Denmark? but it's "boring" Of course, you can always spend an hour visiting "the second most underwhelming world-famous-statue in a European capital" (that's 29 minutes each way to walk there and 10 seconds to take the compulsory photo). And students of literature will want to visit Karen Blixen's house Lego. And pig farming. As a customer with a contractor paying eat & drink in a restaurant in Tivoli Gardens. Avoid Havn when the Swedish drunks are arriving by ferry. Mostly drunks in Scandinavia arrive by ferry where they've had the chance to imbibe duty free on the journey and ISTM than Sweden isn't far enough away for that tim |
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Avoid Havn when the Swedish drunks are arriving by ferry.
Mostly drunks in Scandinavia arrive by ferry where they've had the chance to imbibe duty free on the journey and ISTM than Sweden isn't far enough away for that Does a sufficiently large quantity of duty-free make British and German drunks verbally indistinguishable from Swedes? It would be rather like those mediaeval experiments to see whether children brought up with no exposure to language would end up speaking Hebrew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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On 2015-05-02 08:43:40 +0000, tim..... said:
As someone with a Historical bent I've never found much of interest in DK Apart from "Hamlet's" [1] castle, the Viking ship museum and a couple of "palaces" in the city, what is there? Of course, you can always spend an hour visiting "the second most underwhelming world-famous-statue in a European capital" (that's 29 minutes each way to walk there and 10 seconds to take the compulsory photo). And students of literature will want to visit Karen Blixen's house tim The area to the north of Fredrickshaven has a bleak charm to it. There is a lighthouse at the end, where you can climb to the top. Fredrickshaven is also the ferry point to Norway. -- Dan Stephenson http://stepheda.com Travel pages for Europe and the U.S.A. (and New Zealand too) |
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On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 11:54:12 AM UTC+1, Martin wrote:
On Sat, 2 May 2015 03:28:23 -0700 (PDT), Surreyman wrote: On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 11:02:56 AM UTC+1, Jack Campin wrote: As someone with a Historical bent I've never found much of interest in DK Apart from "Hamlet's" [1] castle, the Viking ship museum and a couple of "palaces" in the city, what is there? Of course, you can always spend an hour visiting "the second most underwhelming world-famous-statue in a European capital" (that's 29 minutes each way to walk there and 10 seconds to take the compulsory photo). And students of literature will want to visit Karen Blixen's house Lego. And pig farming. http://www.quadrantaustralia.com/Far...candinavia.asp http://www.ciwf.org.uk/our-campaigns...nvestigations/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin Lego's at Windsor, UK. and pig farming is almost everywhere in UK. and that Tivoli is near Rome. Did you know that Lego was originally a British company that was sold to the current owners for Ł40,000? -- Martin in Zuid Holland I didn't realise that background - but looks more like Lego stole the UK patented brick and, years later, bought the UK company to keep all legal after all! |
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Am Sat, 02 May 2015 18:59:45 +0100 schrieb Jack Campin:
Avoid Havn when the Swedish drunks are arriving by ferry. Mostly drunks in Scandinavia arrive by ferry where they've had the chance to imbibe duty free on the journey and ISTM than Sweden isn't far enough away for that Does a sufficiently large quantity of duty-free make British and German drunks verbally indistinguishable from Swedes? Alcohol is rather cheap in Germany, so they don't have to go on a ferry to get cheap booze. Regards, Frank |
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Surreyman wrote:
On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 11:02:56 AM UTC+1, Jack Campin wrote: As someone with a Historical bent I've never found much of interest in DK Apart from "Hamlet's" [1] castle, the Viking ship museum and a couple of "palaces" in the city, what is there? Of course, you can always spend an hour visiting "the second most underwhelming world-famous-statue in a European capital" (that's 29 minutes each way to walk there and 10 seconds to take the compulsory photo). And students of literature will want to visit Karen Blixen's house Lego. And pig farming. http://www.quadrantaustralia.com/Far...candinavia.asp http://www.ciwf.org.uk/our-campaigns...nvestigations/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin Lego's at Windsor, UK. I'm an adult. -- biblioholic medievalist |
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