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Jan 2016 — We are not Great Danes

This year, January is brought to you by the letter A.

I begin by confessing that TLG and I were appalling at Danishness this month. On the morning after Twelfth Night, I was surprised to see Christmas trees outside our house (see photo). Look…

Nov 2015 — Dansk er dejlige og dårlig

(Danish is delightful and dreadful)

This month felt more settled because I wasn’t travelling away from Copenhagen much but this was somewhat undermined by the turmoil of beginning an intensive Danish course. Previous experience of the…

Oct 2015 — MUS, MUN and moose

It was a bit strange to spend most of my second month living in Denmark travelling to other places. The first week I was actually in Copenhagen. It was taken up with administration, including preparing for and having my first “Medarbejderudviklingssamtal,” known as a MUS…

Sep 2015 — Setting the sails

Our first big event at the CTR was the annual boot camp, which included sailing two Viking ships in Roskilde under expert tuition (see photo of our skipper with me at the tiller). We rowed out into the bay (surprisingly easy) and then voyaged afar (well, to the other side of…

Feb 2015 — Prologue

On a dark, cold evening last February I was walking my two terriers (see photo) along the beach at Emsworth in Hampshire (UK) after a hard day revising navigation skills for my upcoming day skipper sailing course, when I received an unexpected email. It was from the European Commission: