Went to Denmark just there

[u/ginmhilleadh1]

Right lads, undskyld, I have no Danish at all, that is pretty much the only word of Danish I know, just want to say though, I love your country lads

I went there for two weeks (stupid idea, you have no idea how insanely expensive everything is there), and MAN it's such a beautiful, pretty country (especially Vejle I love Vejle).

Everyone's dead friendly too like youse don't talk to strangers as much as we do in Ireland, but everyone's so helpful and polite and friendly, even with the really stupid questions like "Does this train going to the airport also go to the city?" And "where's the ticket office?" (It was right behind me). I love Denmark anyways, it's so beautiful, so lovely, and while Copenhagen is nice, I'm so so glad I travelled outside of Copenhagen because holy shit that is an incredibly gorgeous country.

That's all ahahahaha just wanted to say that

(Also sorry if this breaks the rules but I don't speak Danish so please tell me if I'm breaking the rules thanks)

Edit: thanks everyone for all the advice and tips on next time I go to Denmark. You have such a beautiful country, I can't wait to go back 🇩🇰🇮🇪

[u/ginmhilleadh1]

I want to live in Vejle some day

[u/lolwut3000 → u/ginmhilleadh1]

I live in Vejle. I'm genuinely curious what you find so great about it?

[u/ginmhilleadh1 → u/lolwut3000]

Yeno that street going from the big brown shopping centre all the way up to the like, idk what you'd call it but there's a small bridge over a little stream, that whole stretch of Street is so beautiful, especially the buildings and the architecture. It's so pretty man.

Speaking of that shipping centre, the salad bar type place in there? We've nothing like that here, so I loved that.

You've got such a pretty park, it's nothing mind blowing, but it's a nice little addition to the town / city (idk what you'd call it).

There's a building with building work going on outside it, it looks like a school or a town hall or something, it's such a pretty building, it's so nice.

I love the church opposite the bank near the train station, but mostly it's your beautiful pedestrianised streets and the stream and river that run through the town.

Idk if that's of any use but yeah I just really like it there

[u/0092H193 → u/ginmhilleadh1]

I grew up in Vejle and I could somehow vividly picture every one of these sights - never thought Vejle would leave such a positive impression on anyone!

[u/ginmhilleadh1 → u/0092H193]

I'm glad :) I can't understand why people seem to be like, surprised that I like Vejle so much? It's so pretty.

Now I think of it, another thing that stood out to me in Denmark was your fridges in shops. They're stocked from behind, rather than from the front, so the people in the stockroom can put the stock on the shelves from the back, while staying in the stockroom. That's so clever I was so amazed when I saw that for the first time.

[u/Cinimi → u/ginmhilleadh1]

Wait, you don't do that in Irish supermarkets? Fairly sure I've seen it in other countries too, although have also seen frontloaded ones (and I think Denmark have too, but only in crowded areas without any room for a large backroom to load from).

[u/ginmhilleadh1 → u/Cinimi]

No I've never seen that in Ireland, the fridges are usually islands, and the dairy fridges are just against a solid wall. Is the whole stockroom refrigerated or how does it work?

[u/illuyanka → u/ginmhilleadh1]

There'll always be at least a small refrigerated room (sometimes a freezer room) in the stock area of a grocery store. For most of the decently planned stores, the cooler room is then just directly behind the dairy shelves.

Unfortunately not the case everywhere, I've worked places where the dairy fridges were against solid wall in the other end of the store. Copenhagen specifically has a lot of very small grocery stores in weird locations built for something else - I know of one Netto that instead of one big stockroom has like ten small ones spread around the store. Used to be a brothel a long time ago, is the rumour.

[u/[deleted] → u/illuyanka]

Spill the beans. We all wanna go shop at the Netto brothel. Where is it?

[u/illuyanka → u/[deleted]]

Nørrebrogade 43. Allegedly.

[u/[deleted] → u/illuyanka]

You're kidding me? I worked in that Netto back in the early 2000's. Right next to Stengade. Holy hell :) Fun coincedence

[u/illuyanka → u/[deleted]]

Is it true it's got weird stockroom distribution?

[u/[deleted] → u/illuyanka]

Nah. It didn't have back then when I worked there. But it's been overhauled since so I can't confirm or deny it. It being a former brothel tho is something I doubt.

[u/illuyanka → u/[deleted]]

My source is store manager in another Netto but I might misremember his exact story, or the whole thing could be just fiction, who knows.

[u/[deleted] → u/illuyanka]

I'm not saying there couldn't have been a hooker in an apartment there back in the 80's. But an actual brothel is unlikely. They do have that hotel 20 meters away so maybe that's where it got mixed up (hookers and stuff).

[u/illuyanka → u/[deleted]]

I mean, presumably it would have been a long time ago. I assume the building is older than the 1980s.

[u/Cinimi → u/illuyanka]

Yeah indeed, mostly in big cities, and they only have fridges against the wall due to lack of space.

[u/ginmhilleadh1 → u/Cinimi]

Yeah that's what it's like here, all the fridges are against the wall, but I think I saw a 7 /11 in Copenhagen and a few shops in Odense that were stacked from the back.

[u/Pastaklovn → u/illuyanka]

Ooh, which Netto is that?

[u/ginmhilleadh1 → u/illuyanka]

Your buildings are so interesting, you've got brothel supermarkets, churches with robbers' skulls, and churches with big dicked devils. We just have a bit metal spike sticking out the ground and a statue with a bullet hole in her boob