Win A Royal Affair tickets and DVDs!
Eat strawberries like you eat cereal - in a bowl with milk and a spoon? Like your rye bread hard as a brick? Indulge in the odd cinnamon whirl?
To win tickets to see Mads Mikkelsen bringing the enlightenment to Denmark in A Royal Affair, and to get your hands on two excellent Danish films on DVD - Festen and Flame and Citron - just tell us the best thing about Denmark before Thursday afternoon.
If you've been to Denmark and have a good story let us know. If you love Danish film, tell us why. Our FIVE favourite entries will win 2 DVDs and 2 tickets each.
Comical stories involving pastries particularly welcome.
Put in the effort and you could be enjoying hyggeligt at GFT.
Meanwhile, please enjoy some traditional Danish music:
traditional Danish music.
GLOSSARY
Hyggeligt: familiar warmth, cozy feeling, snugness and simplicity. No stress, no worries, no agenda. Nothing but just good vibes. Imagine a cold winter night, after a wonderful dinner with family you love and true friends, and you can still smell the wonderful roast smell wafting in the air as you sit drinking dark hot chocolate in your favorite mug. You are sitting comfortably in your favorite arm chair in front of a fireplace, reminiscing and laughing about the good old days you all shared, and looking forward to a bright future. That scenario right there describes “hyggeligt.”
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A common sign on Danish lifts says "in motion" - or in Danish, "i fart"! These are hastily covered up when English-speaking dignitaries make state visits. Book shops (Bog handels) provide similarly pleasing toilet humour.
The Happy People!
Dogme95!
I love Denmark because the people are lovely and easygoing and also there are a few laws in Denmark which always make me chuckle :-P
so here's two that might make you chuckle too ;)
Attempt to escape from prison is not illegal, however, if one he is caught he is required to serve out the remainder of his term.
One may not be charged for food at an inn unless that person, by his or her own opinion, is “full”.
I am not sure if these laws still stand at this moment in time lol but at least at one time this was true now how can you not love a country and it's people with such a humanist outlook
I love Denmark because the people are lovely and easygoing and also there are a few laws in Denmark which always make me chuckle :-P
so here's two that might make you chuckle too ;)
Attempt to escape from prison is not illegal, however, if one he is caught he is required to serve out the remainder of his term.
One may not be charged for food at an inn unless that person, by his or her own opinion, is “full”.
I am not sure if these laws still stand at this moment in time lol but at least at one time this was true now how can you not love a country and it's people with such a humanist outlook