{"id":172,"date":"2007-05-28T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2007-05-28T08:00:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T06:00:31","slug":"back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/back-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Back home &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a week away in sunny warm Denmark, I arrived back in South Africa early Saturday morning.&nbsp; It only happens in South Africa when they have to delay the take-off of a flight to make sure that the airplane does not arrive early in Cape Town.&nbsp; You see, they were working on the run-way overnight and the flight was not allowed to land before 5am.&nbsp; They delayed the flight by 40 minutes in Frankfurt just for this.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It was my first visit to Copenhagen and what an eye-opener.&nbsp; No crime to talk off, actually I almost never saw the police or heard any sirens.&nbsp; Once an alarm went off in a shop and within a blink of the eye a policeman arrived.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Bicycles, this is everywhere.&nbsp; No wonder since Denmark is very flat.&nbsp; The highest point in Denmark is a pilar on a bridge that goes from one island to another. Since they ride on the wrong side of the road I almost took out some bicycle riders a couple of times. Getting out of the bus I always looked in the wrong direction and then just started walking just to hear some calls from my right from a couple of bicycle riders pedalling down on me.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>And nobody lock their bicycles when they get off it.&nbsp; Hours later that bicycle will be just where they left it.<\/p>\n<p>Talking of busses.&nbsp; It is always on time, clean and get you on time where you need to be.&nbsp; And cars do not drive in bus lanes.&nbsp; It just does not happen.&nbsp; Also if a pedestrain crossing is red nobody walks, even if there is no cars and\/or&nbsp; bicycles. It just does not happen.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/denmark\" rel=\"tag\">denmark<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/copenhage\" rel=\"tag\">copenhage<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/bicycle\" rel=\"tag\">bicycle<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/robots\" rel=\"tag\">robots<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/travel\" rel=\"tag\">travel<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ibm\" rel=\"tag\">ibm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week away in sunny warm Denmark, I arrived back in South Africa early Saturday morning.&nbsp; It only happens in South Africa when they have to delay the take-off of a flight to make sure that the airplane does <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/back-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Back home &#8230;.<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ibm","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}