Snowy Denmark
 

After my brothers call for help I flew out of Stansted on the 12.05 flight that was 20 mins late, no suprise there.
Arrived in Billund at 15.55 local time, 4 inches of snow and -5 degrees:( , Pauls comment was "Mmm not much snow here" spent the next hour and a half driving through Denmark as the snow got deeper & deeper.
Stopped off for a McDonalds for tea, yes the same **** as we get in the UK, now off the motorway the roads are a few inches of ice under the snow, but as they have to use winter tyres by law there is a fair bit of grip, seen a few lorries stuck and a few cars in ditches but the traffic flows at a good pace.
eventualy arrive at Pauls.
A change of clothes and straight into the back of the van to attach the bike anchor points, ready for getting his Baylis rep from his local dealers tomorrow, most of his gear is packed so a trip to the recycling & tip trip tomorrow to get rid of any rubbish and it will be time to pack the van and trailer.
Temperature now dropping sharply, should peak at -11 over night and steady to -5 tomorrow during the day, :(
Time to put our feet up and enjoy a few beers now:D


Chris:burn:

Who said i was letting you put your feet up, i want you out there shoveling the snow so we can get out in the morning :)

A few more :)

LOL! Make sure you keep him busy with all that path clearing!

Be sure i will M8, then there is the van to load up ready for catching the ferry back on Saturday for my move back to the UK :)

Thanks Antonye, did not notice you offering to help:frog:



Chris:burn:

either you have good loft insulation Paul or maybe no heating

Its supposed to get down to -10 tonight so heating is on full :)
Friday
Cloudy with a little snow. Maximum day temperatures around minus 2 degrees Celsius, minimum night temperatures around minus 10 degrees Celsius. Up to fresh wind.

But for next week its forcast snow for everyday, thank god i leave tomorrow :)

so it must be good insulation Kev.

Given the climate change conference in cph this week, you would have thought him upstairs would have pulled something special out of the box wouldn't you. Like sunny and 20 degrees just to make the point. Seems however that a number of prtrol stations have run low on fuel during the conference. Somewhat Ironic.

Nice bike though. Can't you fit ice tyres?

You only needed to have asked boys!

There's a 6.40am flight from Stansted to Billund:D


Chris:burn:

DAY 2

Up at 6am local time, ablutiuons and a cup of tea:) , left Pauls at 7am enroute for Pauls German ducati dealer, normaly an hours trip, with this weather and the Germans do not seem to have ploughed or gritted there roads like the Danes do, also with the van bought by Paul in the UK had standard summer tyres, grip was dire:eek:
So 2 hours later we arrived at

http://www.claus-carstens.de/en/about-us/

Loaded Pauls Baylis rep into the van, a quick coffee, a bit of bling bought and away we went, arrived back at Pauls a couple of hours later, Paul had to dash off and take his Danish car to the dealers for sale, returned an hour later by taxi. In the meantime I had been outside in wooly hat, gloves etc ( minus 5 degrees) to clear the snow away from his drive or we would not have been able to get the van out of the drive with the trailer on it for the trip to the tip.
On Pauls return we took the bike out of the van and loaded the van and hitched up the trailer (already loaded) and of top the recycling centre,after a trip into town and lunch at Burger King we arrived back at around 4pm, a cup of tea later we reloaded the Baylis and started to load his furniture around it, finished what we could by 6.30 and called it a day, just need to finish load the van and trailer tomorrow morning before heading for Esjberg for the ferry that sails a 6pm.

Burger King and MacDonalds, visiting all the top restaurants then, you'll be glad to get back to Cathy's Bacon Sarnies

Damn right, they don't have bacon over here, strange realy as most of bacon on sale in the UK is Danish :eek:


Chris:burn:

Its been a hell of a day TBH we needed to fill the van up, and with all the snow pulling out of the petrol station was not an easy task, i was given the all clear left by Chris so dumped the clutch and booted it "Oh shite" was all i heard from Chris and i glipsed a red car heading for us :( some stupid woman had come helling round the corner with her mind on some other plane, she never even tried to brake or take evasion action and endeded up slamming into the rear wheel of the van... no damage to the van just lost a bit of trim, but her car was a little worse for wear, with a shatterd bumper, bent wing and some indicator glass shatterd .. swaped insurence details and we were on our way.... my first accedent in Denmark since i moved here 20 years ago.. must have been a leaving present :)

Any way van is half loaded ready for the trip home to to the UK will finish loading tomorrow and be on our way ... watch out UK paul is coming home :)

I lived in Viborg Denmark in 1990 when I was a "lad" - I remember seeing the outside thermometer reading -25degC one day so, what did I do....I thought it would be great to take my AP50 out in the snow to see just how cold it really was.........
Farkin hell......bad idea in an open face orange Stadium helmet and Damart gloves!!!! Still, I survived with no lasting damage........

God Yul! Det er min tommeltot. Jeg kan ikke husker min Dansk godt.

R