Posted in London, Stereotypes, Weather on Feb 3rd, 2009
Stereotypes about London and England are plentiful. A newspaper article in the Danish “Berlingske Tidende” about today’s “extreme” weather (“London paralysed by snow”) mentions two of them. Used to rain? First it mentions how the English who are so used to rain woke up to a snowstorm. I have covered that in another blog entry. [...]
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Posted in Weather on Feb 2nd, 2009
The south-east of England is closed. The buses in London aren’t driving. Part of the M25 is closed. I was supposed to go to Bedford today, but the “Highways Agency” agency suggested that you only drive anywhere if you really had to. Well, I was pretty sure I would be able to handle the snow, [...]
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Posted in Quality Of Life, Weather on Jan 5th, 2009
Friends back in Denmark frequently ask me how I can stand all the rain here in the UK. They never quite seem like they believe me when I tell them that in my experience it doesn’t rain a whole lot more here compared to Denmark. So I decided to find the official truth. That wasn’t [...]
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Posted in Quality Of Life on Jan 4th, 2009
This is old news, but my blog on living in the UK is new, and I wanted to boast tell friends and family about the cool place we live in the UK. So back in 2007, Wokingham (the borough where we live) was found to be the number one place in the UK to live [...]
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