Let's just start by saying that it's a nice place. Here's what the ever-present travel guide, The Lonely Planet, thinks of the country:
With little to get angry about in Scandinavia's cosiest and most PC community,
post-Viking Danes have had to file down their horns and make their mark in more
civilised fashion. The Danes have responded by inventing Lego, being the European
Union's cagiest member, producing some talented upstart soccer players, and
cheering on a yellow-guernseyed Bjarne Riis in the 1996 Tour de France. Brand
recognition persists due to the Danes baking pastries so delicious that the addiction
of the entire gap-toothed world is assured.
Denmark's capital, the toe-tapping toy-town of Copenhagen, is an urban mosh pit
of the most fragrant persuasion. Its flannels are always laundered, its grunge never
more lank than just the other side of swank, and its Jensens, Hansens and Neilsens
are a cacophany of excuse-me's as they elbow their way to the bouncer-line. And
given all the fun that there is to be had in this festival-happy scattering of islands,
Denmark's status as the least bank-breaking country in Scandinavia deserves
glad-handed shake me happy thankyou letters from travellers all the way from the
bottom of the beer glass.
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