Re: On and off topic... recovering a pine table and when Home seer failed...

["Geraint Morris" <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Denmark is top. I go quite a bit to visit one of our suppliers in
Copenhagen, they sure know how to drink :-). Odd place though but the Danes
are so friendly and hospitable despite their unhealthy obsession with
herring. I went to Legoland over there when I was ten, the only thing I can
remember is the excellent model of Copenhagen airport with moving planes.

G.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Hetherington" <mark.egroups@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 12:19 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] On and off topic... recovering a pine table and when
Home seer failed...


> > The Tuborg is nice in Copenhagen :-)
>
> I went to Billund. Given the numbers they talked about during the
vist,
> Billund is not only where Lego have the head office and LegoLand, but
is a
> town that they "own". (8,000 residents, 5,000 work for Lego
plus those
that
> commute).
>
> Some of the group who had been before were hoping the snow "down
south"
did
> not stay so we would not be stuck overnight or the weekend in Billund.
It
> has nothing there. It was described to me on the flight out as a place
with
> 7 shops and this was not far off. The only "restaurant" is
the Legoland
> hotel (even the pizza joint shuts at 4.30 pm since their working day
is
8-4
> rather than our 9-5+nightlife).
>
> The proliferation of huge Lego bricks in and around the town in a
similar
> manner to the way we place curious metalworks students crations as
modern
> art in our town adds to the "extended" Lego land feel of the
town.
>
> But I got a factory tour (which seems to be like gold dust even within
> company staff), did this weird back to childhood thing in the Idea
House,
> and came back with free Lego stuff. Incidentally the Lego factory is
the
> automator's dream. Everything is automated and managed and although a
lot
of
> the technology used is simple, to see it in action and to interact
with it
> shows you how such a simple premise can be so effective. Automated
fork
lift
> turcks are very "spooky" particularly when 2 or 3 stop
around you as if
> "checking you out".
>
> The private Lego jet we flew on now has me thinking that scheduled
First
> Class flights is poor. This plane is the rich guy's plane. Very cool
Cockpit
> camera displayed to LCD screens throughout and *real* food and drink.
>
> Definitely not keen on Danish "sandwiches" but didn't get
chance to try
out
> anything else Danish.
>
> Demark itself, odd. Colder than here (but expected), completely and
utterly
> flat. Every inch is farmed and managed (even the trees are so
obviously
> regimentally planted. I suspect it would take a mere couple inches
rise in
> sea level for Denmark to disapear beneath it. The people, are nice,
kind
of
> dry humour, and seem to have this regimental order to their lives that
can
> be seen in their landscape in that they all seem very
"organised". Never
> seen so many power windmills before. From talking to people it seems
that
> Denmark does have an old castle on a hill somewhere and that is the
highest
> point at a mere 200ft (IIRC) above sea level. Tall buildings are also
> prohibited which further contributes to them being "flat".
>
> In summary, I guess surreal is the best word that I can use to
describe
> today in Denmark :)
>
> Mark.
>
>
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