David Currie

Back in Denmark again this week although staying out in Lyngby this time as it saves driving through the centre of Copenhagen every morning to reach the customer. Arrived late last night and then proceeded to spend 20 minutes driving round a deserted town centre attempting to find the entrance to the Scandic Eremitage. I knew where the hotel was (you can hardly miss it built on top of the shopping centre) but it was only on the third lap of the block that I spotted the ramp in the middle of the high street down to the underground parking!

After last week’s lift noise my room was beautifully quiet. That is until 7 o’clock the following morning at which point the sound of the jack-hammers remodelling the concrete in the car park drifted all too readily up the lift shaft to the ninth floor.

84Just back from my week (well, four days really as Friday turned out to be a public holiday) in Copenhagen. Unlike my last visit in the middle of winter the city was bathed in sunshine late in to the evenings for the entire week. This, combined with the local habit of finishing work around four o’clock, meant that I had some very pleasant evenings running around the streets, taking photos as I went. Things were spoilt only slightly by the seeming propensity for Danish men to urinate in public!

Had to fly out to Denmark at short notice and selected a SAS flight from London City Airport thinking that it should be easy to get to without having to find a last minute taxi. Indeed, it ought to be: an hour on the train to Waterloo followed by the Jubilee Line and DLR. Unfortunately Network Rail had other ideas and aren’t running any trains between Basingstoke and Farnborough every weekend in May. This would have meant getting a bus from Winchester to Alton and then changing again at Woking. Ended up getting a taxi after all which, at 2.5 hours and £100, still wasn’t much better. The airport itself was great though with all the advantages of a small regional airport – think I’ll leave it to the good citizens of London in future though.

67Spent a very nice weekend at the University of Wales’ Gregynog conference centre relaxing whilst Christine participated in a statistics conference. Not a part of Wales I’ve been to before but the green rolling pastures are very aesthetic. Just a shame that the rights of way on the map don’t seem to have any corresponding presence on the ground!