Perhaps surpased only by Amsterdam and Peking (well, any Chinese city of comparable size), Copenhagen is one of the cities with the highst bicylce to car ratio in the world. In fact Denmark is one of the few countries that actually build separate lanes for bicycles.

Right now, my bicycle is parked in a ditch, the habour or maybe in Christiania somewhere. I guess I should say my 'old' bicycle, since technically still mine, I no longer know where it is. That's right, it got stolen. Luckily my new insurance comes with a "self-liability" of approximately $200, and the bicycle itself is 6 years old, which would rate it at 40% of its original cost. In conclusion I stand to get maybe $50 from insurance, so I wont even bother. Thanx a million mr. Bicycle Thief. Grr!

You would think, that with maybe 800.000 bicycles in Copenhagen, everybody would have one (I actually had two until recently) but no. Well at least now theres one more out there who does have one, and if I ever meet him, I'll probably go kung-fu on him.

My 'new' bicycle is - hopefully - safely parked downstairs sporting two locks, one on the wheel and one of those wires to attach it to the bicycle stands (which you don't see anywhere else either) - well, actually it's safely parked at the Bicycle repair, because this morning my front tire was flat - 6 days old. The old bike had one flat tire over a period of 6 years .. everything was better in the good old days :o(

The origin of names of the numbers 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90 in Danish

http://www.berlingske.dk/forside/artikel:aid=917950

In English it's pretty straightforward, but Danish is another matter. 50 is pronounced using the Danish words 'half','three','twenty' in a sort of strung-toggether fashion whereas 40 resembles the English word (4 tens).

Kinda geeky I guess, but I make no pretence not to be one :o)

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