We started in Copenhagen. We stayed over at Sofus's house which is just outside Roskilde.

I really liked Copenhagen - a very nice city - not too big to be polluted, but not too small to be dull either.

Because there is a 200% tax on cars, (yes, that's right, the Danes would pay 60,000 pound for a car that would cost 20,000 pounds here), and because Copenhagen is very flat anyway, everyone rides bikes.

I also checked out the town called Kristiania. This is a sort of "commune" where the government did not use to intervene - so everybody went there to get drugs. Since then there's been a crackdown... here you can see the police with dogs raiding for drugs:

Overall, I thought the place was overrated - there was a vaguely unsanitary smell about the place, and most of the people hanging out there didn't look too healthy.

From Copenhagen, we then drove all the way through Denmark to the Hirschal peninsula, to get a ferry across to Kristiansand in Norway. For the most part, Denmark was not terribly scenic from the motorway - but there is an absolutely enormous bridge (it is, like, miles long) that we got to drive across:

Norway was next.

 

 

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