Tony has just finished overseeing a conference based close to Kalø. Although it is less than an hour’s drive from here, conferences are such time-consuming events that he overnighted there for 4 nights. One of the delegates was a Finn who seems to have been drunk from the moment he set foot on Danish soil until the minute he boarded the plane to fly back to Finland. He was escorted out of the local supermarket by police and gave his talk with everybody wondering whether he would fall over before the end. Apparantly it was a good talk. No-one knows where he spent the first night because he didn’t claim his room key until the next morning. And he was using the airport bar as he prepared to board the early morning flight back to Finland.
Otherwise we had three Russians to lunch and dinner as well as an old friend from WWT days who has lived in Spain for about the same amount of time we have lived in Denmark. We went to stay at his flat in 1995 when Gwen was barely one year old and he came to visit us in our summer house when we went to Southern Spain in about 2000. So we now have some cyrillic script in our guest book.
Boringly, the snow continues. We have had snow in the landscape non-stop since the end of December. I know you all think it is like this every year in Denmark but it isn’t!
Now we must get ready for sunny Spain or at least Spain which is 20 degrees warmer than here. It has been minus 10 at night and the car brakes and gearboxes have been freezing up even though we keep them in the garage.
It is likely that Gwen and Mia will be able to spend a day or part of a day in a Spanish school so it is not all fun for them!