Are we ready for this?

I heard and read quite a bit about Danes and they seem to be very liberal, self-ironic and have (awkward) sense of humor...
Searching youtube for examples brought more results than expected:

• about Danish neighbors: 

• hmmm, that's intriguing...

•  Danish view on life ?:

• And a really awkward one: a discussion about a tourism (?) advert that was banned in Denmark. The advert itself starts at 0:50...

           Really??? A tourism advert?

• apparently this movie was very popular because there are tens of parodies :-) simply write "Danish mother" in youtube ...

• a very good conclusion to the "Danish mother" video:

Let's see... :-)

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last days in Norway

Last weeks have been extremely busy but it looks like everything is planned and in 8 days we should be in Viborg with all our house belongings.
There were quite some obstacles our the way:
- legal issues: because theoretically I am not moving to Denmark yet and drTBBE has never been a resident in Norway, we should pay custom duties and the VAT tax from all out house belonging when bringing them back into EU. Insane.... Anyway, the EU borders aren't checked  that well..... and half of the problem is solved already  ;-p
- logistic issues: as a foreign person in DK, drTBBE can only get a credit card after 6 months... Most of the car rental companies accept only credit cards (no debit cards or deposits) and they must be shown before getting the car (I would have to travel to DK...). Fortunatelly drTBBE used his natural charm mixed with persistence and saved us a lot of hassle and money... uffff!

Both of us had also a very busy period at work and I can admit now - I completely underestimated the amount of time needed for organization and realization of a removal from on country to another.
Anyway, next time it will be easier :-)



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Project Denmark - our new flat

Ufff, finally we have a flat in Viborg :-)
Things were little bit slower than expected because of several reasons:

• 70% of the online advertisements of rental apartments (like this or this ) do not include photos! A short description like: number of rooms, area, floor number, location of the flat and a list fees to pay is a standard. If you are very lucky, you might get a glimpse of the house in Google StreetView but it is only available for the main streets where you probably wouldn't like to live anyway...
• housing associations (that dominate the rental apartment market) are not the best organized 'companies'... They might for example send you a list of available flats that, after you spent entire evening on selecting the ones that you might be interested in, happens to be outdated and non of the flats that you wanted to see is on the market anymore...
• drTBBE had much more busy and more stressful (and full of surprises) than expected time at work.

Another new thing that we have learned lately it the fact that in most of the housing associations in Denmark the tenant is paying the rent for the time (mostly 2 weeks) when his future flat is renovated for him. So in our case, we pay the rent from the 16th of October but we will be only able to move in on the 1st of November. As we discovered in some places it might be the other way around, you might have to leave your flat 2 weeks before the contract termination so that the housing association has time to paint the apartment and fix some small faults. I find it really awkward but every country has its own customs...

Anyway, the logistic puzzles soon will be solved and I will join drTBBE to start our common Danish adventure on the 1st of November :-)

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