biking with vikings

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'Biking with Vikings' is now mothballed and will no longer be updated; If you want to follow our stories in Seattle, please point yer browser over to Cascadian Telegrams, our new blog about life in Seattle and the Northwest.

Bye!

last day in Denmark

... was August 1st.   Fittingly we spent part of it on the beach -- 'fitting' as we spent our first weekend in DK on the beach in Hornbæk. 

It's lovely along the Øresund on a nice summer day.  From the beach in Vedbæk near our hotel (the furniture was all packed and moved, destined for the boat) you can see windmills in Copenhagen on the horizon to the south.

We had a great ~3 years here.  Coming to Europe was something we'd always wanted to do, and if we hadn't had done it now I don't think we ever would have done it.

I learned a lot... about Denmark, a new language, and even something about being an American and the US.  Perhaps absence really does make the heart grow fonder.  Susan did too.  And Malcolm  had a full immersion into Danish language and culture, some of which I don't think he'll ever forget.

His last day at børnehave was a bit sad:  He got some gifts and cards from some of the other kids, and a nice Montessori plaque from his teachers Marianne and Fleming, and there were some teary goodbyes.  But it will make some nice memories.

I won't reiterate all our reactions regarding life in Denmark here -- our inventory post from 2006 covers that.  But suffice to say that it was worth every minute, even if we are glad to be going home. (See also 'You know you've been in Denmark too long when...' :))

This ends a chapter of our lives and this will be the last post here, thanks for coming along!  Vi håbe vi ses igen i fremtiden!

more last hurrahs

and another belated post.  Our last friday in DK was July 28 which we spent with our friends Nelda, Jesper and Andreas

We're really going to miss these guys -- good friends and a great family!  Hopefully we'll see them every now and again back in Seattle (or we'll come back! :))

congratulations aida and stephan!

a very belated congratulations to Aida and Stephan on the birth of their son Nima, named for a famous persian poet.  Tillykke!