Category Archives: Danish Life

Coffee Break

11 Sep ’08

Scandinavians tend to drink the most coffee per capita although specialty, sweet, and flavoured coffees still aren’t as popular as in North America. The coffee here is usually bold, rich, dark and always had for breakfast and after meals (even… Continue reading →

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Hunde Parkering

22 Aug ’08

All little towns and communities in Denmark have a village grocery which is often a good little walk to get to if you live out in the country. So if you have to get some milk, you end up taking… Continue reading →

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Danes are the Happiest

24 Jul ’08

“Over the past 30 years, in survey after survey, this nation of five and a half million people, the land that produced Hans Christian Andersen, the people who consume herring by the ton, consistently beat the rest of the world… Continue reading →

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Sweet Beets

28 Jun ’08

Beets have always played a huge part in Denmark; it’s one of two major crops (the other is potatoes) and it’s also harvested for sugar (there’s even a museum dedicated to it). There’s a 99% chance that if you are… Continue reading →

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In my little wooden shoes

12 Jun ’08

Photo by my mum. The shoes on the left were mine when I was about 5 and 6. I wore them everywhere with everything. The pair on the right I picked out on my 10th birthday and I was so… Continue reading →

Discussion 5 Comments Category Danish Life, Fashion