1. The ingenious cheese-slicing machine
2. Breakfast buffet
3. Tea and coffee making facilities in my room
I seem to be the only person in world who has never seen these ingenious Danish cheese-slicing machines, because everybody gets that condescending so-what-else-is-new look when I start talking about them.
Nonetheless, I was very impressed. When you turn the handle in the direction of the red arrow the wire neatly slices off a piece of cheese. At the same time, the screwing mechanism lowers the wire just enough so it will be at the right height to slice another piece off the other slab of cheese on the other side.
At peak breakfast hours the Cab-Inn City Hotel had up to four of these cheese-cutting machines in operation simultaneously. Even people who don't normally eat cheese for breakfast were eager to try them.
So now when I hear people talking about "Danish design" this is what I think of.
Update: Several weeks after writing this tip I came across a website called The London Review of Breakfasts, in which a reviewer calling herself "Joyce Carol Oats" (he he) pans the Cab-Inn City breakfast buffet but is full of praise for the "miraculous little machine", the cheese slicer. "I am riveted," she says, "and not just because I am hungover: it is a thing of beauty, a masterpiece of Scandinavian design."
