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25 Reviews On the Hop on Hop off bus tour we learned about the garden allotments. In Danish culture the allotment garden has become a symbol of blue-collar culture - with all the positives and negatives...
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Street Life Copenhagen
14 Reviews Check this out! Domestic household articles neatly arranged on attractive stands. The prices are clearly visible I hope ;) It looked good enough to eat ;) You're supposed to use 'good' brushes for...
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Beer. Copenhagen
9 Reviews Not just Carlsberg. There are many different Danish beers, do try them! My favourite is Tuborg. You can look out for Christmasbeer during the right time, and also Easter Beer. There are many different...
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Food. Copenhagen
8 Reviews La Glace dates back to 1870 and is famous for the delicious cakes and chocolate. I liked to have breakfast there, but actually lots of people decide to go there at "tea time". It seemed also very...
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Language Copenhagen
5 Reviews Every Danish person we spoke to whether it was in hotels, shops, restaurants or on the street, spoke perfect English. After our first day in the city we stopped asking people if they speak English...
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Smoking Copenhagen
2 Reviews The Danes' attitude to smoking is generally quite liberal and according to the statistics 34% of the population are smokers. But if you walk through the streets it looks like almost everybody is...
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Holydays and celebations Copenhagen
5 Reviews Like most places in the western world, most Danes celebrated Christmas is in one way or another. The biggest moment of Christmas, for Danes, is the evening of Dec. 24th! That’s when families all...
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Festivals and events Copenhagen
7 Reviews Friday night of week 41 – middle of October – is The Culture Night in Copenhagen, and in some locations across Denmark as well. The date varies, but in 2007 it will be on October 12th. All sorts of...
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Toilets Copenhagen
4 Reviews I must admit that Danish cleanliness is up there with the best of them. Copenhagen could not be described as spotless, but they make a pretty good fist of things. Even in the dodgier fast food chains...
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Bikes Copenhagen
10 Reviews Ok, so now we have already established that bikes are a big deal in Copenhagen, and here are some rules for good biking behavior: 1) Bike on the right side and let others overtake on the left side....
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Ice Cream Copenhagen
2 Reviews Danes Love Ice Cream! When you come here you should try and find an ice cream shop (shouldn't be too hard). The best way to go is get 3 scoops, guf (a strawberry goo type stuff), flodeskum (whipped...
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Royal Guard Copenhagen
5 Reviews I prefer the Royal Guards in Copenhagen when looking at them against other regiments around Europe. They go about their business, marching to and from the Amalienborg Palace through the streets on a...
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Christmas Decorations Copenhagen
3 Reviews December in Denmark is dark, so the Danes like to make lights throughout the city. Copenhagen is decorated with thousands of Christmas lights, accentuating the special Danish holiday atmosphere. At...
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When walking in the side-streets of Ribe or any other old village in Danmark, take a closer look at the large variety of great and colorfull doors. There seems to be a competition among the many house-owners to have the most beautiful entrance-door, while the faceds of the houses are mostly alike in red bricks.
See people in their traditional costumes and merchants, farmers, hat-makers etc. at work in the open-air-museums like "Den Gammle By" in Aarhus. These museums are open like small villages during the evening and night, and you may take a walk through them freely and without restrictions. During the day - according to the opening-hours - the doors of the museum will be locked again and you have to pay some entrance-fee, BUT you also get to see the people in their costumes, working and selling their merchandise in the old houses of the museum.
The changing of the guards in Amalienborg Slot is a nice event for the tourists and it takes place every day at noon in front of Amalienborg Palace. Dont expect a big ceremony like in Bukingham Palace, it starts quite un-spectekular, when some soldiers get out of a side-wing and start marching towards the collegues on duty.All of the ceremony is over after 4-5 minutes, you may approach the soldiers, or march behind of them, like some children did, while I saw the ceremony last time...Something that you should know : they look cute and friendly, BUT they also have a machine-gun and are more than just a funny touristattraction. They will shout at everyone, trying to sit in front of the palace etc. Pics can be taken of them and sometimes they even will show something like a smile ;~)
You may see Dannebrog, the Royal Danish Yacht mostly in Aarhus during the summer-season, when Queen Margarethe II is living in her summer-residence closeby. The royal yacht was built in 1931 and shows the danish crown in front of the ship. It is considdered to be one of the official "residences" and is mostly used to visit remote places of Danmark like Greenland and the Faroe Islands.I saw Dannegbrog twice in Aarhus, docked at a special pier next to the commercial port, always with some soldiers in front of the ship to guard it.Photographs can be taken from a distance without problems.
Fossilized sea urchins named thunderstones was in the old days believed to origin from lightning. Lightning arising from the wheels of Thors chariot when he was riding across the road in the sky. The thunderstones was carried as amulets in the believe that it was a used lightning and as lightning was assumed not to be able to strike twice you would be protected against the wrath of the Gods. If you see one walking around with a amulets like this there is a good chance that this person is a believer of the old Nordic Gods.
Danish have similar habits to the British: breakfast in a hurry, a packed lunch at school or work and a larger meal in the evenings. However, for the evening meal families make a real effort to get together and eat at home.
Talking to a Dane it’s a good idea to know where he/she is from in the country. As people from Jutland has the custom to make understatements or under act what they tell you as well as some from Copenhagen are more prone to exaggeration.
Nowhere in Europe people seem to be more proud of their flag than in Denmark, but then the "Dannebrogen" is the oldest nation flag in the world. Every toyshop and supermarket sell Danish flags for birthday parties, silver weddings, exams and such and there are several special shops for party goods. This flag waving nation can be studied carefully at Copenhagen Kastrup airport where they wave flags at each other as they arrive!
A few years ago, a woman was charged with neglecting her baby in New York. In fact, she only did what is perfectly normal in Denmark, i.e. left baby and pram on the pavement outside a cafe. You see it everywhere in the country as Scandinavians like their children to get fresh air whatever the weather. Danes also smoke a lot more indoors than Swedes and Norwegians which is another explanation for this. So don't be alarmed, mother is just having a coffee or a warm elderberry drink on the other side of the window :)
Danes are proud not only of their flag, but of their royal family. The very relaxed Queen is cherished and the party when Crown prince Frederik married Australian Mary Donaldson was huge - this was the view from my office on their wedding day. In wintertime, the queen resides at Amalienborg in Copenhagen, but the family also has castles to the north of Copenhagen and in the south of Jutland to name a few other places.l
Hilton Copenhagen Airport Copenhagen
10 Reviews and 788 Opinions Wannabe location..close to airport and steps to subway train..this property is only for business...
Best Western Hotel Knudsens Gaard Odense
1 Review and 19 Opinions A cosy 4 star hotel. We were glad we stayed here for the night. They have very friendly personnel....
Hotel Royal Århus
2 Reviews and 23 Opinions I went on a tour to Europe last year with my family. It was a great trip we had. While going to...
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