Zonnebloem
01-15-2008, 02:16 PM
My ex is Danish and we went up there for a scout around a few times. Everywhere picking up the local tourist information, we did the full tours and took along a couple of guide books. I remember one quote from one of the guide book along the lines of "This where you find Denmark's highest mountains, thickest forests and widest lakes, none of which are particularly high, thick or wide". The highest point of Denmark was like a fried egg on an ironing board.
A bird zoo had some mangy looking parrots tied to perches. Those bright red little sausages called pølse are disGUSTing. The food is generally crap, over-priced and unhealthy. Beer is Carlsberg, Tuborg or Faxe and that's about it and you need a mortgage for a bottle of wine if you're eating out. Sitting having a quiet drink, 2 drunks came into the pub (called a Kro), bought a bottle of cheap German sweet wine, swigged it all back in 2 minutes and went outside to puke it all back up again against the pub wall.
Some great beaches in Jutland but I hate beaches. It's boring lying around getting sand in everything. Last time I was there (just a stopover to get to Norway) there was a massive plague of flying insects in Løkken. A bit stripey looking like wasps but harmless EXCEPT that hundreds of wasps were hiding in the clouds of harmless insects. You couldn't stay still without hundreds of the little bastards landing on you.
And some git nicked my number plates. The stupid police said "we'll let you know if anybody hands them in". Imbeciles.
It's just an obstacle getting in the way of landing in beautiful Norway. I really made an effort to like it but following directly on from a week's holiday in the English Lake District, it was simply pizz poor. My worst holiday.
A bird zoo had some mangy looking parrots tied to perches. Those bright red little sausages called pølse are disGUSTing. The food is generally crap, over-priced and unhealthy. Beer is Carlsberg, Tuborg or Faxe and that's about it and you need a mortgage for a bottle of wine if you're eating out. Sitting having a quiet drink, 2 drunks came into the pub (called a Kro), bought a bottle of cheap German sweet wine, swigged it all back in 2 minutes and went outside to puke it all back up again against the pub wall.
Some great beaches in Jutland but I hate beaches. It's boring lying around getting sand in everything. Last time I was there (just a stopover to get to Norway) there was a massive plague of flying insects in Løkken. A bit stripey looking like wasps but harmless EXCEPT that hundreds of wasps were hiding in the clouds of harmless insects. You couldn't stay still without hundreds of the little bastards landing on you.
And some git nicked my number plates. The stupid police said "we'll let you know if anybody hands them in". Imbeciles.
It's just an obstacle getting in the way of landing in beautiful Norway. I really made an effort to like it but following directly on from a week's holiday in the English Lake District, it was simply pizz poor. My worst holiday.