the cost of Danish

hi,
day #2 and I'm having fun in Denmark. I walked over to the city swimming pool facility this morning. Everything is a 15 minute walk in this town, it's cute. I got a job offer right away. Seems everyone around the world is in need of swimming instructors. They didn't even care that I can't speak Danish. They were ready to hire me on the spot just for walking in and asking if they needed instructors. I'm set if we ever decide to live here. Minimum wage is $20/hour, nice! To put it in perspective, a dozen eggs cost $4, tomatoes are $5/lb and rib eye steak was $16/lb at the local grocery.... $20 doesn't go very far. A 1000sq.ft. apartment rents for $2500/month, gas is $10/gal and a beer is $6... okay the beer is pretty cheap but they MAKE it here (it's really good beer too).

Food. Food is my favorite thing about travelling around the world with Marshall. The hotel breakfast was awesome. Fresh eggs done any way you like, an assortment of muesilli cereals you'd never find at home, the bread is to die for, cheese... well I could stay and live on the fabulous cheese, organic yogourt, dried fruits, and my favorite herring! Don't say yuch at herring, it's not like the stuff they try to pawn off as herring in the USA. It's the real deal here. First, it's fresh. Second, it's not salty or vinegary. Third, it's the best herring I've ever tasted. Danish herring on rye bread is a diet I could live on eternally. We are going to a typical Danish restaurant for dinner (we didn't eat dinner last night since we had such a big late lunch and our body clocks were still in limbo). More on food later.

The art gallery was were I spent most of the day. I need a whole blog just to talk about what is here but it was a terrific gallery. I will get pictures out once we come home. My favorite things were the 'atmosphereic colour atlas' by Olafur Eliasson and the 'big boy' sculpture by Muesk. Google these and you'll see what I mean.

Time to dine. More to follow on our adventure in Aarhus (sometimes spelled Arhus, I haven't found out why there are 2 spellings, yet)

xox
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