Tuesday 12 April 2011

Evening Sun...


When the weather is as nice as it was yesterday in Denmark, you have to make the most of it, as I promise you it's not going to last that long. In a country where the weather is usually pretty bad, or at best dull for over half of the year, you will notice that a high proportion of it's population favours a bright orange hue thanks to sunlight addiction (whether manufactured or real), and at the first sign of the real stuff at this time of year, they are all out in it soaking up the rays (as are we!)...

Picking up my daughter from a friend's house in Rungsted yesterday evening (we have been here long enough now to know you have to make the most of it when it first arrives), we went straight to the harbour there (Fiskerikajen not open yet - after Easter hopefully!), where we managed to get a table outside for a pizza on the seafront. R was telling us that she had been crabbing here at a summer camp she attended last year. She swore blind that the food that caught the most crabs was pieces of seal. I am pretty confident she actually meant sild (herring), but there is no arguing with this child sometimes, and she got quite irate with her parents (which considering the topic was quite amusing), and drew a couple of bemused looks from the orange folk around us. On the way back to the car we happened upon a bucket of crab fishing rods outside a shop and bought our own for future expeditions. No "seal" to be had though, but we found a bit of icecream cone, which of course floated at first! However I am married to engineer, so he soon came up with an ingenious pebble weighting system and the crabbing began. It turns out that crabs don't like ice-cream cone, but it was a beautiful evening and one I will remember. I am very glad we made the effort, you can just guess what the weather is doing today...

14 comments:

  1. Crabs like chicken. When I was 12 or so, I used to sit on our dock with a pile of chicken legs and a hook and bring home dinner. :)

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  2. Thanks Mary, great tip! Sounds much more sensible than seal and icecream cone too! :)

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  3. So what would you of done with the crabs, cook them or throw them back?

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  4. Frankie, we probably would have had a good look at them, had a quick dream about the crab shacks of Florida (and a big tub of clarified butter to drown them in), and then thrown them back... :)

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  5. So handy to have an engineer in the house - those crabs don't stand a chance! Enjoy, while the sun shines.
    ~M

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  6. Sounds like a lovely evening. My kids would love crabbing :-)

    Denmark weather sounds great to me. I am not a fan of the sun :-)

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  7. Can't wait to see the orange folk next week. May have to tango-up to blend in!

    Just have a word with the weatherman for me, please.

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  8. @MM, Thank you! We certainly will (when it comes back!)...!

    @MMM You would definitely like it here then, come over, you can borrow the fishing rod!

    @Trish, you won't believe some of them! I will be speaking to the weathermen before your arrival. Should you wish to consult the Danish Meteorological office, have a look here... www.dmi.dk (you can switch to English at the top!)...

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  9. Bet it is raining today! That is something I really have to get used to about NL, In Gran Canaria once the sunny days started that was it they were here to stay but here it kind of says have a sunny day, haha now have a rainy one
    :(

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  10. You guessed it! I think NL and DK have an awful lot in common you know... :)

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  11. bacon! They like raw bacon so I can imagine seal would go down pretty well too :)

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  12. Sounds like a wonderful day, you do right to make the most of any sunny days. We do the same in Ireland!

    However, you have now implanted an image of Denmark in my mind as a country of oompah-loompahs??!!

    xx Jazzy

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  13. Beautiful blue sky and sea - lovely pics. I loved Denmark when I visited as a kid, so colourful and clean, like a grown up lego land.
    Hope you get some more days like this.

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  14. @Kelloggsville, thank you! That's going in along with the chicken then :)

    @Jazzy I know Irish weather very well, and can understand why! It's very similar! Giant Oompah Loompah's maybe! :)

    @Alexander Residence, thank you! It is indeed like a giant lego land! I hope so too, but I am coming to the UK tomorrow so can you arrange some sunshine there for us as well? Thanks in advance!! Emma :)

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