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Copenhagen Animal Competition. Any idea what animal made these paw prints in the snow?


After a freezing night in Copenhagen where the outside temperature was minus 8 degrees, I awoke in my hotel to see out of the window some animal paw prints on the roof of the kitchen below, so roughly first storey level of a UK house. Any ideas what animal it was walking around in the night but not for long it seems? My initial thought was Urban Fox but I have no idea if these are prevalent in Copenhagen. Other options include cat or presumably stray dog.

Copenhagen Paw prints

Copenhagen Paw prints

Copenhagen Paw prints

Copenhagen Paw prints

Copenhagen


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Photographs of Food


Pan Fried Cod and Broccoli

Pan Fried Cod and Broccoli

Orange and Arctic char with an "air"

Orange and Arctic char with an “air”

Chicken and Asparagus, with courgettes and roast potatoes

Chicken and Asparagus, with courgettes and roast potatoes

Sea Bass

Sea Bass

Two Slags

Two Slags

Cottage Pie. Smallest and worst cottage pie in the world. served Dalmahoy Marriott

Cottage Pie. Smallest and worst cottage pie in the world. served Dalmahoy Marriott

Custard Cream. Copyright Chris Bushe

Custard Cream. Copyright Chris Bushe

Courgettes

Courgettes

The Winners of Eurovision 2014


Always difficult to predict but this year the music quality is exponentially better than in most previous years. Potential winners include the following but for me Azerbaijain have a special song and Netherlands a particularly haunting song,where their live semi-final version is much better than the pre-recorded version. Just enjoy

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjPWKljY5zM ( Netherlands)
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eg35A-4n1U (Sweden)
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ou_VGxLfFE (Azerbaijain)
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCnBZwm4wqQ (UK Molly)
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71oOTdHfULY

 

And Iceland will never win but just enjoy!

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Weather Report from Scandinavia


It seems I am replicating the Grand Tour but instead of Italy am focusing on Scandinavia. All that I am trying to do is get back from Copenhagen to London. However last night having got onto a plane and sat there for 2 hours it became too windy for the ground staff to work. This also meant that they could not connect the air bridge so we were all stuck on the plane.  Today the weather is a little less stormy but snow has arrived. Copenhagen airport is chaos, with people and queues everywhere. The pushing and shoving at the gates reminds me of Rugby League. Mr Angry is out in force and has been cloned too. Mr Important is standing there shouting into his phone that ” he has to get to Bejing”. Which is where most folks might wish to place him. Restaurants are packed selling high priced pizza and hot dogs. Most folks are surgically attached to wine or/and beer glasses.

Somehow I escaped on a plane to Stockholm that then promised me a trip to London however the london flight was cancelled along with most other flights. So I am here in Stockholm Arlanda Airport, most likely all night. The queues to book at the SAS ticket centres stretch around 200 yards or longer and just keep on getting longer. The staff are doing their best and remain cheerful and pleasant and SAS cannot be criticised at all.

For those of you who would like to experience this joy a few photos. As for the weather, well cold, windy, actually very cold and very windy and lots of snow here. Posted 8 pm. A glass of wine for me

The Hilton hotel is at Copenhagen airport and the sky shows that snow was coming. The queues you will have to just work out as they were endless. The pushing at the Gate. Well thats easy. The folks sitting on the baggage carousel was last night at Copenhagen. They may well still be there!photo

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Harbour Restaurant at Copenhagen Island Hotel


Rarely do I get excited about the prospect of eating in a hotel restaurant when travelling and usually my reservations are reasonable. Food rarely comes above the above acceptable because I am not paying mark. This hotel is an exception. Firstly it is a great hotel, not far from the airport and right next to the local train station so imagine it would be a good base for visiting Copenhagen.

The menu is small, maybe 4 options for each course, 3 for dessert. Very fish based and no chicken in sight on the menu. The food is excellent, the service is good and the ambience and view of the harbour is exceptional. Well recommended.

The food looks good as well. Starter was two types of cod on a beetroot base, two slags in fact. Main was baked salmon on red onions with wild rice and asparagus. Dessert was poached pear with ice cream and berries with a crumble base. Best dinner for a long time.

Cost 400 Danish Kroner, somewhere in the 40£ region including a beer.

Two Slags

Two Slags

Harbour Restaurant. Copenhagen. Chris Bushe

Harbour Restaurant. Copenhagen. Chris Bushe

Harbour Restaurant. Copenhagen. Chris Bushe

Harbour Restaurant. Copenhagen. Chris Bushe

Harbour Restaurant. Copenhagen. Chris Bushe

Harbour Restaurant. Copenhagen. Chris Bushe

Poached Pear

Poached Pear

Two Slags

Two Slags

Two Slags in a Restaurant


Just made me laugh anyway. Two types of cod and very nice they were too.

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HAPPY KEBAB


kebab vans galoreIn my travels I do see a fair amount of utter nonsense. Today in Copenhagen is no exception.  A taxi driver driving me to the airport with an obvious fairly flat left front tyre, needs also to be known that the temperature was minus 4 and dropping to minus 15 tonight, snow and ice on the roads in abundance ( and he drove more like Evil Knievel than anyone else). On me pointing this out he helpfully told me ” that is because air is escaping from the tyre”.

But the greater nonsensical thing today by far was as one walks from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2, which is easy at Copenhagen Airport, about 30 yards maybe, one passes a little food van perched on the corner of two roads. It calls itself the Happy Kebab. And it might , who knows, I know little about the happiness or otherwise of the kebabs in Copenhagen. But then on the end of the van was an exhortation to ” Follow Happy Kebab on Facebook”. I am still thinking as to exactly why anyone would want to follow Happy Kebab on Facebook. So I will and would advise that we all should    www.happykebab.dk

We could create a certain amount of confusion if we all follow them, tell our friends to and generally whip up a world wide interest in how happy the kebabs are!

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