Children crabbing at Nykøbing, Denmark Since I was in the neighbourhood so to speak, my lovely Danish friend whom I had met in Mongolia invited me to drop in. With a few days before my next flight, I couldn't resist the temptation. Previously I had only seen a bit of Copenhagen and the remote dunes of Rømø about 100 years ago, so I was delighted when my friend and her partner offered to show me around. It really was this green! The weather was perfect. Everything was lusciously green and this was only interrupted by the occasional bright splash of yellow rape fields or the purple of hundreds of lilacs in bloom. Here and there a few windmills turned lazily in the breeze, most of them sleek modern wind generators but there were at least two traditional ones too. One of the things I really liked was how low key and decentralised all the housing was, spread over low hills with lots of green in between. Although Denmark is a small countr...
Practising Geographer - nature culture places people