Vanishing Car
Since I am a resident of Denmark now, I cannot legally drive a car with my Canadian license, I need to retake a theoretical and practical test in order to drive in Denmark. In fact, I need to get a temporary license asap in order to continue driving my rental car. It's going to cost me about 160CAD - hopefully the company will cover it!
As for driving in general, Kendrick and I do not plan to own a car. A car purchase in Denmark is slapped with a 180% tax. If you rip out the back seats and only promise to have two people in the car, the tax is reduced to 90%. Gas prices are staggeringly high (2CAD per litre). The Danish driving test is.. non-trivial. And on top of all that, we picked a beautiful apartment with horrible parking prospects. So this means that for me I'll be walking 10 minutes to Nørreport station,traveling 30 minutes by train to Vedbæk, and then walking 20min through the forest to get to work. Nice in the summer... not so nice in the winter!!
I'm still considering the driving test however. I want to be able to rent a car if people come visit. However my coworkers spoke of a "slippery surface" test during the driving test. That sounds very involved to me. When I got my license in 1993, all I had to do was a three point turn, lane changes on a normal street, and a normal parking job (heading in). It was a laugh, to say the least.
In the end, I will be a very environmentally conscious citizen while in Denmark. Luckily there are no bears in the Danish woods. All my coworkers ask me if I've ever seen a bear in Canada. Zoos excepted, I have not.
As for driving in general, Kendrick and I do not plan to own a car. A car purchase in Denmark is slapped with a 180% tax. If you rip out the back seats and only promise to have two people in the car, the tax is reduced to 90%. Gas prices are staggeringly high (2CAD per litre). The Danish driving test is.. non-trivial. And on top of all that, we picked a beautiful apartment with horrible parking prospects. So this means that for me I'll be walking 10 minutes to Nørreport station,traveling 30 minutes by train to Vedbæk, and then walking 20min through the forest to get to work. Nice in the summer... not so nice in the winter!!
I'm still considering the driving test however. I want to be able to rent a car if people come visit. However my coworkers spoke of a "slippery surface" test during the driving test. That sounds very involved to me. When I got my license in 1993, all I had to do was a three point turn, lane changes on a normal street, and a normal parking job (heading in). It was a laugh, to say the least.
In the end, I will be a very environmentally conscious citizen while in Denmark. Luckily there are no bears in the Danish woods. All my coworkers ask me if I've ever seen a bear in Canada. Zoos excepted, I have not.
posted by Gina at 4:40 PM
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you've never seen a bear outside of the zoo??? i find that surprising!! didn't u guys see any while out west?
I think most people try to avoid meeting bears unless they're hunting them. I've seen moose while camping, but never bears.
BTW, in Japan, most of the calendars also start on monday. Furthermore, since they used to have school on saturdays, the school calendars don't list saturdays as an automatic holiday (like sunday is). It's kind of labelled as a semi-holiday; like a school day on which school just happens to be (usually) cancelled.
Is it too far to bike to work?
bears are a hot topic here right now. there was a bear wandering through bavaria terrorizing i don't know who. bruno the bear was shot by an unlicensed hunter a couple of days ago. i've been asked a number of times this week if i'd ever seen bears in canada. and i have. in killarney in a garbage dump.
the week also starts on a monday in germany. i only discovered this recently. it explained why i kept having difficulties in conversation about "next" week. the whole i time i thought it was a language problem.
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