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Travelling throughout Denmark: "
Denmark is not only the Water-nymph, Thumbelina, Stimorol and Tuborg. It is the most quiet and slow country in the world. In July here is not hot, but in January it’s not cold.
To go through the central part of Copenhagen by car is a difficult and ungrateful employment. Therefore many local residents move on bicycles. They also do it irrespective of the fact in what they are dressed. Don’t be surprised, when next to you men in suits, white shirts and ties and women in strict office skirts will be carried by. Any visitor is absolutely free to become the bicyclist.
In a city the special program “Free bicycle” works. These bicycles stand on parkings and differ floridly by painted opaque wheel disks. To separate a bicycle from the parking device, it is necessary to throw a coin in an aperture in 20 Danish crones. After reaching your destination you put a bicycle on any other parking and receive back the money.
And to find an automobile parking here is difficult, as in the center of any large European city. I mean to find it, of course, is possible, but not immediately. And to park anywhere here it is not accepted – fine without indulgence and on the big money ($200-300). Yes, and certainly, it is impossible to park cars on bicycle roads.
Copenhagen-bulltrout-Copenhagen
In Denmark there are no mountains as in Switzerland, Norway and Spain, there isn’t such inconceivable quantity of castles as in France and Germany, the sea is cold and weather, as a rule, doesn’t indulge. The Danish calmness and well-being in itself is sight. But today we go to Sweden.
For the lack of the big rivers Danes build bridges through the sea. Last grandiose project has been finished in the summer of 2000. And if earlier to get from Denmark to Sweden on the car it was possible only in the ferry now to reach to Sweden is possible on the bridge through passage Eresunn. Some steam of minutes – and you already on other coast, in Malmo. And there is 500 km nearby to Oslo, and to Stockholm only 600 or less.
From the Danish coast to Swedish of 16 km you even do not need to bother about cheap airfare. Journey costs about $27 for one part. At first you go on the eight-kilometer tunnel, then the tunnel comes up from the sea on artificial island, whence, actually, the bridge begins. Length of its free pendant part is of 492 m, height over the sea is 57 m, about the 20-storeyed house. Under automobile level, on other floor of the bridge is the railway.
Behind the bridge there is Sweden. Here it almost doesn’t differ from Denmark. Unless some traffic signs are painted hardly in another way. And expensive cars meet more often. The tax laws in Denmark are that, buying the car, the owner should pay taxes and the customs duties practically as much as it costs. Therefore if in Denmark you see a car of representation class in 90 cases from 100 it will have either German or Swedish numbers.
In spite of the fact that Malmo is a small town, tiny and quiet to park in the center directly in the street is rather problematic. Therefore we dive into the first underground parking. Having put the car on a parking and having paid the automatic machine money (the automatic machine is ready to accept either the Swedish crones, or a credit card of one kind – American Express), we go to walk on the old center.
Copenhagen-Helsinger-Hornbek-Copenhagen
Another day – Another route. This time we should go round Zealand (old). If to go on a line 152 on the north of Zealand here the Danish Riviera will appear before you in all its beauty. The twisting road will go through woods and fields along passage Eresunn coast. Here it is possible to see, how there live well-founded Danes.
However the Danish representation about luxury is original. Modesty and if you want, asketism are one of the main features of this very rich country. It is possible to judge a solvency of owners only by cars. It is unusual anywhere in Denmark not to meet such abundance of expensive cars. Though the presented automobile number can seem to the domestic capital inhabitant modest enough.
The city of Helsinger is in the north of Zealand, at the bottleneck of passage Eresunn. Its main sight is Kronborg Castle. Here you have a chance – don’t know, how much it will please you – to meet weight of compatriots: visiting the castle of the Prince Danish, probably, is included into an obligatory tourist minimum.
Well and we go further on the north, in Hornbek. In the summer as it is surprising, they bathe and sunbatheon local sandy beaches. But it is necessary to tell that weather in Denmark is unstable. In the summer, as a rule, it is a bit warm and even hot weeks appear. But if the sun and temperature under 30 in the afternoon shines, it doesn’t mean at all that by the evening it won’t rain and won’t become cold degrees on 10-15. However many Danes consider that almost nothing if it is cold in the summer: it is possible to get warm in the south of Europe. But in the winter though and wet, but warm – 5-10.
Beaches in the north of Zealand are really magnificent. And there is a lot of sand, also there is what to look at: the ships go from passage Kattegat in Eresunn. Yachts, boats, the big marine, the Field-glass in these parts are things of the first necessity.
We come back to Copenhagen by another road – on a motorway (they here are called europavej) Е47. It too goes along coast Eresunna, only hardly further from a coastal line. Motorways and simple roads, even in minor value, unusually are equal in Denmark. Probably, therefore here are a lot of failures. To the driver it becomes boring, and he simply falls asleep… Restriction on speed on motorways is 110 km/h, on usual roads – 80, in a city – 50. Driving with a speed of 120-130 km/h isn’t considered gross infringement, however if you have been noticed with the big excess of speed, punishment can be very severe. On the other hand, if to go too quickly Denmark can come to an end. Hardly you have managed to add to gas – and you are already in Germany.
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