When the weather is as nice as it was yesterday in Denmark, you have to make the most of it, as I promise you it's not going to last that long. In a country where the weather is usually pretty bad, or at best dull for over half of the year, you will notice that a high proportion of it's population favours a bright orange hue thanks to sunlight addiction (whether manufactured or real), and at the first sign of the real stuff at this time of year, they are all out in it soaking up the rays (as are we!)...
Picking up my daughter from a friend's house in Rungsted yesterday evening (we have been here long enough now to know you have to make the most of it when it first arrives), we went straight to the harbour there (Fiskerikajen not open yet - after Easter hopefully!), where we managed to get a table outside for a pizza on the seafront. R was telling us that she had been crabbing here at a summer camp she attended last year. She swore blind that the food that caught the most crabs was pieces of seal. I am pretty confident she actually meant sild (herring), but there is no arguing with this child sometimes, and she got quite irate with her parents (which considering the topic was quite amusing), and drew a couple of bemused looks from the orange folk around us. On the way back to the car we happened upon a bucket of crab fishing rods outside a shop and bought our own for future expeditions. No "seal" to be had though, but we found a bit of icecream cone, which of course floated at first! However I am married to engineer, so he soon came up with an ingenious pebble weighting system and the crabbing began. It turns out that crabs don't like ice-cream cone, but it was a beautiful evening and one I will remember. I am very glad we made the effort, you can just guess what the weather is doing today...
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