Copenhagen and the area around it was our last stop in Denmark. First up we walked from the main train station to Kingosgade to see Mona and Rene, another set of host parents from when I was an exchange student in 1995. They still live in Odense but the timing didn’t work out for us to catch up there so we saw them while they were on holiday in Copenhagen, staying at their son Klavs’s apartment. Klavs & Anders were away overseas at the […]
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A Danish New Year’s (Denmark Part 2)
Maya and Johan live with their two boys (7 and 2) in a sweet little house in the small rural village of Ommestrup in Djursland. I had heard a bit about the house and the dramas faced after they purchased it. After discovering mould they had to gut the whole place and re-do it all! It was great to see them and the house looking so good now. We had some really lovely, relaxing, ‘hyggelig’ days here, including our 6th wedding anniversary. The 2 […]
A Danish Christmas (Denmark Part 1)
Never mind the dark, dreary days when it doesn’t get light until around 9am and darkness descends again around 4pm- a month in Denmark over winter meant experiencing a Danish Christmas with all its lovely traditions and food and lots of time spent with wonderful people. This was to be Antony’s first Christmas in Denmark and my seventh. We’d had enough sunshine in the previous 11 weeks of tripping around Israel, Jordan and Cyprus to carry us through the dark Danish December/ January period […]
Odense- My Other Home (Denmark Part 3)
It was just over 25 years ago that I arrived in Denmark as a Rotary Youth Exchange student. Little did I know that this small Scandinavian country and its people would capture my heart and play a major part in my future. I still remember bawling my eyes out at the airport when that magical year was over and I thought I might never come back. But I did come back – in 1999 for a few months, then a year doing youth work […]