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07-27-2001, 01:46 AM
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My wife and I are going this year to spend three weeks in Budapest. Now, you may think that doesn't have much to do with Denmark. And you would be right.
However, we were thinking about Denmark as a potential place to annoy in roughly two to three year's time. It has all the things one could want on a vacation, after all:
Cheese.
Carl Nielsen's music.
Castles.
Monuments to Valdemar Atterdag.
Vagn Holmboe's music.
Lots of water.
Yes, the above scientific data, carefully collected over several lifetimes and assiduously collated, clearly indicates that Denmark would be an excellent vacation spot.
There is, though, one small problem.
We've been given to understand that Denmark is heavily touristed. Overrun with tourists. Crawling with them. There are more tourists per square mile than there supposedly are ****roaches, and the ****roaches have been complaining, too. If accurate, you can't blame them.
Apparently, several people on this august board are from Denmark. Is the country very touristed? What's Denmark like? Where are good places to go to avoid tourists, always allowing for sausage factories, trawling vessels, and garbage scows?
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07-27-2001, 02:57 AM
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Well Copenhagen is heavyly turisted in the summer-month(s). So if you were to try out Denmark in a vacation (wich I would recomend highly) I would suggest either living away from Copenhagen and then traveling into the city when you want to, or maybe come a bit
out of turist season (july or september).
But if it is as turisted as you express I wouldn't say. The reason is seems that way, is that when the weather is good many native people travels to Copenhagen from the nearer cities to go to "Nyhavn" (a kind of habour with quite a lot of pubs) to sit on the dock and drink beer.
Also there is a lot of things to see for turists (well I'm sick of most things - but that was living it the country does  ) around the county - so if you make it to Denmark, don't be sucked in by Copenhagen - but try to see the rest of the country to, there is a lot of different terrain in Denmark - only thing we don't have is mountains  - also with the new brigde - Copenhagen is only a 1/2 hour drive away from Sweden.
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07-27-2001, 04:48 AM
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I more or less depend on the weather good weather it looks like an ant-colony bad weather everybody locks themselves in and there is more action in the middle of the Sahara desert. It is flat it is small so it is easy to get around to see what you want to see.
Places to be aware of for tourist overload:
Skagen: in the winter a ghost town in the summer the mainframe of tourism.
The vestcost: here is a lot of Germans they are very found of the vestcost for some reason but it is also very nice during summer.
Copenhagen: as the capital always a lot going on and since the bridge between or neighbours are now up and running a lot of our Swedish friends comes to visit + people from the world.
The more quiet places are on the eastcost of jytland and some places on Fyn.
I can really recommend it during summer (July and August) but I wouldn't wish for my worst enemy to come here in winter.
some say that Danish have a funny mentality......NOW WHAT THE HELL DO THOSE SONS OF ONIONS MEAN BY THAT! we are not weird  we are just diffrent
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Hey Fable-san..watch out if you go to Denmark, those guys are Bacon mad. If you ever thought you had a great bacon/smoked ham story then you are in for a shock coz danish will out-bacon you any day of the week...Here are some bacon-tastic quotes from those bacon mad danes
Petr:"I had bacon for breakfast"
Johann:" Bacon is real good"
See? Craaaaazzyyyy
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07-27-2001, 06:22 AM
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If you are trying to avoid tourists come to Wales, due to Fn'M there are no tourists anywhere 
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07-27-2001, 06:40 AM
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<STRONG>If you are trying to avoid tourists come to Wales, due to Fn'M there are no tourists anywhere </STRONG>
| come off it Mr Sleep..I used to go camping in Wales and it was fab. Also I visited Wales' smallest house in Wales.And Welsh are famous for their warm hospitality and cheerio-smiles. But if it's true madcap fun you want then look no further than swingin' Lincoln. Wow!  What a place. They've even got a church!
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07-27-2001, 06:54 AM
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@Fezek - I have been to Lincoln! And I would say it was a little more than a church lol! It does have 'city' status after all!
Did you visit the castle and dungeons?
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07-27-2001, 06:57 AM
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I live in Wales and i can testify to the fact that there are no tourists anywhere, trade is down the toilet at the moment
Plus they have found a case in the Brecon Beacons, which means there is not going to be anymore sheep on the Beacons
Where abouts did you go camping?
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07-27-2001, 07:52 AM
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Originally posted by Fezek:
<STRONG>Hey Fable-san..watch out if you go to Denmark, those guys are Bacon mad<snip></STRONG>
| Actually it is not the Danes that are "bacon-mad" we export most of our bacon - and IIRC much danish export goes to Japan (well actually most goes to UK and Germany but...)
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07-27-2001, 08:58 AM
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Problem is, Wales is a little too close to our culture--and I imagine that by the time we go overseas again, after filling the penny jar, Wales will be once more thronging with tourists.
We'd rather hit someplace where our best efforts prove that nobody understands us, and we don't understand them. It's that slow but constant rising sense of panic and black dread which is the height of traveling.
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07-27-2001, 09:22 AM
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We used to go camping in Rhyl and Aberconwy..bangin' places. I got in a fight with a scouser there once.
And believe me Fable-san you'll definitely get the snse of "black dread" if you go to some of the more remote spots in Wales. If you can understand one word of Welsh then you are more of a genius than I had previously thought. It'll make "Summon: Geordie" look like a Fortnum and Mason's bumper Ascot Hamper.
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07-27-2001, 09:30 AM
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Fable casts "Summon: Geordie" - *shazam*.
I take grave offense to that remark.  | | |
07-27-2001, 09:41 AM
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Well, @Fezek, I wasn't planning on visiting any mineshafts--though from what I recall, The Great Good Baroness Thatcher closed most of those down years ago, in an effort to hobble the British economy. But I'll keep your recommendation in mind.
Incidentally, I do recommend Budapest highly. It's a beautiful, relatively inexpensive city with just about anything to do that anyone could want (except, Waverly, all the sheep are served, cooked).
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07-27-2001, 09:43 AM
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Originally posted by Gruntboy:
<STRONG>Fable casts "Summon: Geordie" - *shazam*.
I take grave offense to that remark. </STRONG>
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Didn't mean to offend you Grunters lad
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