Denmark Cuts Rate to Defend Euro Peg After Surprise ECB Move
Denmark lowered its deposit rate after a surprise cut by the European Central Bank put pressure on the krone’s peg to the euro. The central bank in Copenhagen left its lending rate at 0.2 percent and cut its deposit rate by 0.1 percentage point to minus ...
Summer review
As you might have noticed I haven't made a july or august review. I planned to make one for the entire two months. So here's how I experienced my summer. This summer I... I worked my butt off in a supermarket near by. (so for july that was all I did.) I went to a BBQ hosted by the club near my house ...
Back to school — back to music!
Welcome back to school! Here are some of the activities we have been doing in music class: Watching videos. We watched two renditions of “Tico Tico,” a Brazilian song. One version was played on boomwhackers and filmed in Denmark, and another version was played on guitar and filmed in Florida. http:/ ...
4 September - Copenhagen, Denmark
Once again, with the magic of cruising, when we woke up this morning we were docked in Copenhagen, Denmark. We quickly had breakfast and then hopped on a bus into town. We had the grand tour of the city and then got off to find a bakery to taste Danish pastry in Denmark. You expect it to be good and ...
Flashbacks from the old redactor
In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, I was – as the observant reader will already know – intensively involved in running Karateklubben Kyokushinkai København in Denmark. One of the tasks I had taken upon me was the internal club magazine with information to the members about tournaments, events and ...
The Purity of Vengeance by Jussi Adler-Olsen
After I read the first "Dept Q" novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen, I was eager to read another. The newest one happened to be available at the library, so I grabbed it. It's funny when you miss several books in the middle of a series. Between the first one and this new one, our main character, Danish cop C ...
Olympic Games in Tvind
This weekend there will be a BIG event in Tvind: the Olympic Games. Students from Tvind-schools all over Denmark will come together and compete in all kinds of disciplines (I saw there will be a ‘sjoelen’-competition as well – I just HAVE to join that!). Over the weekend the Tvins campus will host o ...
Cutest Goth Ad Ever? It's Super Bleak, but You'll Be Smiling by the End
Ad agency Heimat in Berlin has made the cutest teenage goth ad since Kodak film taught my generation that cheerleaders and dudes in fishnet shirts could be friends. In this spot for German home improvement brand Hornbach, a gloomy-but-not-sour goth girl is soundly rejected by everyone in her communi ...
