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In love with danish roads

Today I had to go to Ringkøbing for our Residence Permit. We were supposed to be there at 9:30, and there is only 1 highway in Denmark, so it was 50km of normal roads. I quote myself when I say: “Denmark is an empty country”. And this was proven again today. The road we drove on was one of the main roads in Denmark. If you know that Herning is the 2nd biggest city in Jylland you might expect some serious traffic between 8:30 and 9:30. But no, the roads were just empty as ever! They never heard of speed cameras in Denmark as well. The roads all are quite new, straight and drive very well. But the best thing is the emptiness of them. In city borders the speed limit is 60 - 70, and on normal roads, it is 80. But no one drives 80 there, even the large trucks drive as hard as they can (90 that is). Even in wet conditions, everyone is driving the speed he wants, and this is brilliant. The normal speed today was about 110km/h. In Belgium this might not be possible because of the hundreds of cars around you all the time. Today I overtook about 4 trucks and 3 cars on a 22km straight. This was so easy because there were no cars in the oposite direction for a whole kilometer sometimes. I love it that I have my car with me here. The nearest shops are 3km, the town center is about 5km I think. So nothing is close actually. Only school. Last saturday we went to town for a beer by bus, and had to walk back around 3 by foot. This was a 40minute walk, so a car is prefered really.

Another reason why I love the road here is the highway around Herning. This highway is so new that it is on no GPS map yet… Quite funny if you check your gps and he tells you that you are driving in the fields and the woods at 130km/h. The best part about this is that I drive on the highway for shoping to LIDL. Can you imagine? It’s only a 5 min drive from here to LIDL, but that there is a highway on the track to it, is just to funny.