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COPENHAGEN AIRPORT IS EASY TO NAVIGATE
… as long as you speak Danish or English . Signs in both languages provide clear directions , and announcements are likewise made in the two languages .
With travelers from all over the world arriving and departing , Copenhagen airport can be a very busy place , and that makes it great for people-watching . Us North American Avgeeks can entertain ourselves by simply looking at the Departure board , with its unfamiliar European carriers like Air Greenland ( GL ) and Brussels Airlines ( SN ) flying to destinations we would consider exotic , like Gdansk , Poland , ( GDN ) and Palanga , Lithuania , ( PLQ ). For me , it was a thrill to simply see , in person , aircraft from carriers like Ryanair and EasyJet , which we never encounter in the States .
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2 3 Checkin kiosk and departure board at Copenhagen showing the variety of carriers and destinations operated from the airport . |
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THE PEOPLE ARE FRIENDLY AND HELPFUL
From the young woman at Passport Clearance who smiled as she welcomed me to Denmark to the people who took a moment to give me directions when I was completely lost , to the woman at the train kiosk who showed me how to purchase a Metro ticket to the city center ( the kiosks are in Danish ), everyone was uniformly pleasant , polite , and helpful .
THE CLIMATE IS WONDERFUL
As Anko van der Werff , President and CEO of SAS , said to me prior to the flight , “ Copenhagen and all of Scandinavia has much cooler weather than here in Atlanta and , in the winter , we can guarantee snow and ice !” After leaving the 90 ° F ( 32 ° C ) degrees
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of Atlanta and landing into 70 ° F ( 20 ° C ) Copenhagen , I never once thought about the heat or humidity .
BICYCLES EVERYWHERE
Thousands , tens of thousands , hundreds of thousands of bicycles can be seen all about in the city . These are simple single-speed bikes , mind you , not the multi-geared ones most folks ride here in the States . And they are parked in huge lots in city squares , many of them simply being placed unlocked in the racks . I imagined that , as everyone already has a bike , there is no reason to steal one . And , as there are so many bikes , the odds of your particular one being stolen are very low . I read that about 40 % of Copenhagen ’ s citizens cycle to work ( which is possibly the reason the Danes all
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