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August 27, 2005

Pigs, Cows and Beer!

From Michelle in (yet again!) Rainy Rotterdam...

So while Alesia is contending with The Move, and while Lani is Finishing The Book, and while I am Struggling With That Thing Called The High Level Concept, here are several things about Denmark that you might not know but will in a minute...

1. Copenhagen is probably the cleanest city in the world. Well, it's the cleanest city I've ever visited...

2. Carlsberg beer comes from there.

3. So does famous fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen (I walked past his house!)

4. Thirty-one cows died when they were struck by lightning in a Danish field last year.

5. Last year, Crown Prince Fredrick married Mary Donaldson, an Australian real estate agent. (They met in a Sydney bar during the 2000 olympics.)

6. There are a lot of pigs.

Actually, pigs are pretty important in Denmark - the stock is roughly thirteen million (there are only five million Danes, so that's a lot of pigs), and there's nothing the Danes like more than...pig racing!

It's absolutely true! In fact, when On Patient One and I were in Copenhagen last weekend we watched one in the city center.

Michelle, off to work on The High Level Concept :-)

Posted by Michelle at 9:58 AM