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Favorite thing: This was taken on the west coast area of Jutland. There are so many charming scenes like this throughout Danmark that I enjoyed the opportunities to drive from one place to another.

If I had been a regular tourist, I might have missed much of these views. As it happened, I was visiting friends and they were generous to drive me all round the country so I was able to see large cities, small villages, beaches at several seas and wooded lakes such as pictured here.

If you have the chance to rent a car and travel around. It doesn't take too much time to get from one scenic place to another and there are lovely sights along the way.

Favorite thing: Early in the morning the train to Danmark arrived in Copenhagen. I was instructed to meet Sten near the clock. This is the "meeting place" everyone agrees upon, so if you plan to meet up at the Copenhagen train station, tell your friend that the Clock is the place to be.

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Fondest memory: It was an adventure for me to travel by train, as I had never done that before. One of my biggest fears was that I might fall asleep and miss my stop! I avoided the temptation of enjoying the trip by having a meal of bread, cheese, fruit and wine. This overnight journey would have been the perfect opportunity for such an impromptu meal. What if drinking the wine caused me to oversleep? So, no wine.

I slept well but the noise, of the train being coupled and uncoupled as we reached the body of water to cross over to Danmark, woke me up a bit too early. Another hour's sleep would be nice and off I went into dreamland.

I slept too well.

Woken by the conducter's sharp rap on the window of my compartment, I soon realized that time had passed and the train had stopped. I was the lone traveler on the train or platform.

My friend who waited patiently near the clock until the last--almost--passenger disembarked from the train, seemed quite relieved when he saw me struggling down the platform with my luggage.

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Favorite thing: Getting to know Danish people was a great reward!

This livingroom is in the converted old train station of Hellum and you can read a bit more about this very small country town on my Hellum page.

Fondest memory: Fondest memory of Danmark is meeting my pen-pal, Connie and her family for the first time. Exploring her world and finding out that even though we knew each other only by letters, albeit twenty seven years of letters, we knew each other as well as if we had been living next-door to each other all our lives.

The picture is of Connie’s living room where we spent hours talking about "Old Times."

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Favorite thing: The official currency of Denmark has been around since 1873 and was formed as part of the Scandinavian Monetary Union along with Norway and Sweden who each use their own version of the Krone.Sweden is also a member of the European Union and like Denmark and the United Kingdom refuses to have the Euro as its currency,in fact Denmark had a public referendum in 2000 on adopting the Euro and it was refused by 53% of the population.However,Denmark as a nation qualifies for the right to adopt the Euro in the future should it choose to do so.The Euro can be spent in certain places such as airports and goverment venues and facilities.
The Krone is divided into 100 ore.Denominations for coins are 25ore,50ore,1Dkr,2Dkr,5Dkr,10Dkr and 20Dkr.Notes are 50Dkr,100Dkr,200Dkr,500Dkr and 1000Dkr.

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Favorite thing: When travelling through Danmark you will see some great vintage-cars still driving around in everyday trafic. And you will also find some great technical museums in Danmark as well:
My favorite car-museum in Denmark is Egeskov with an excellent collection of cars, a seperate collection of Falck-cars (Falck is the private company in Danmark that is dealing with firefighting, rescue etc.), some airplanes, hundreds of motorbikes and a lot more.
In my main photo here: A motorhome in a truck of 1953, A Danish painter had it built in order to stay for several years in Spain with his wife and 2 children
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The Train-museum in Odense with some excellent exhibits of royal train-coupes, cars that are running on rails etc.

Favorite thing: My only complaint about Denmark had to do with not being able to use my credit card at all stores and restaurants. Being from the USA, my credit cards do not have the smart chip or the PIN. This was a bigger issue in Aarhus than it was in Copenhagen (because of all the tourists, perhaps) and I never feel that comfortable carrying around cash. Always ask the cashier if they accept credit cards without PINs before they start the transaction... you might have to make a trip to the ATM if you don't have enough!
(Sometimes I was able to use my debit card with my PIN, but other times it didn't.)

Favorite thing: Structure, cleanlyness, safety an beauty.
Denmark is a very well organized country with great infrastructure. The welfare system is among the highest in the world. The attitude towards the environment reflects clearly through how clean and tidy everything is.
This impression you also get from the Scandinavian countries in general.

The people are forward and helpful. Perhaps even more so in the provinces and the western part of the country.

Favorite thing: The area that was to become Copenhagen was first settled in the eleventh century, probably by farmers and cattlemen. Over time, a small settlement grew but never developed into an important town. However, in 1160 King Valdemar I gave the area to Absalon, Bishop of Roskilde. Under his rule, churches and abbeys were established, and the economy expanded due to a busy fishing trade. It was around this time that the town was named Købmannahavn, which is Old Danish for "Merchant's Harbor."

Because Copenhagen controlled the approach to the Baltic Sea and the north Germanic trading towns of the Hanseatic League, the city grew in importance, wealth, and power. It also became the target of the Hanseatic League, which saw the city as a threat. Copenhagen was attacked on several occasions by forces of the Hanseatic League.

Despite frequent attacks by various forces, Copenhagen continued to grow and prosper. It attracted foreign merchants who set up businesses, and craft guilds that established trades. However, around 1830 the local economy declined and remained in a slump through the Second World War.

After the war, however, Copenhagen's fortunes improved, and the city grew in prosperity and population. Nowadays, it is the largest city in Scandinavia, with 2,390,000 inhabitants, and is perhaps the most lively.