Southern European tourists flock to Denmark to escape the heat

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1. Bring out your water guns Denmark

2. 10 years ago i read Scandinavia will be warm enough to steal the tourists usually heading for southern europe.

   Here we are. Time to get that easy tourist monaaay

3. And you’re super welcome, but PLEASE… read up on traffic rules for bikes before renting a bike and throwing yourself into rush hour traffic!

   We understand that many developing bike nations don’t really have proper rules yet, but we do. People expect you to follow them (or at least be deliberate when breaking them…). If you don’t know the rules, you are a hazard to yourself and your surroundings.

   I swear, I’m this close to learning how to swear in Spanish. If I meet another group on rented bikes, all going 4 km/h, holding their phones, completely oblivious to their surroundings, blocking the entire path on some of the most busy bike paths, stumbling into the intersection on every green light…

   Biking in Copenhagen (and I think all of this applies to places like Amsterdam as well) is generally very safe due to excellent bike infrastructure, but IT IS NOT SAFE if the last time you rode a bike was when you were 8, and if you don’t know the rules.

   Copenhagen is not an amusement park. People have places to be. Take the metro if you don’t know how to ride a bike in real traffic.

   And thank you for visiting our wonderful city, enjoy your stay. <3

   /rant

4. Oh, how the turn tables.

5. Titles soon: “Norwegian authorities are bringing the so called ‘Harald Hardrada’ law, which prohibits tourists to swim in protected fjords and allows local communities to fence them off”.

   Olaf Gustavsson, the local ice-cream maker complains: “They bring their own food, buy nothing and just complain how expensive sunshades are and how high entry fees to our beaches are. They just get drunk in the evening, overly loud and then pee everywhere. The tourists from England are fine, especially those with Millwall t-shirts, but those Spaniards, Italians and Greeks are insufferable!”.

6. Pretty worrisome if we already have a climate migration going on within the continent. Although a temporary one (as currently only during the summer).

7. Not only colder in general but they always are spared of the heatwaves … 32C in northern Germany, only 24C 150-200km to the north

8. Lots here too, it’s been a fairly miserable summer here since the end of June. It is 18 degrees Celsius today, with a substantial amount of rain.

   I never thought I would see the day whereby tourists would come here *for the weather*.

9. Dont you get more “bang for your buck” If you use the Euro as your local currency to go to Sweden rather than Denmark?

10. I found it really freaky when I booked a holiday in the South of Spain, which happened to be near a river mouth. When I got there, the river was just an entirely dry bed. I asked a friend who was a local if that was normal that a river is just gone like that and they just went ‘huh, never really thought about it that much…”

    For me – an Irish person – it’s crazy to see that. We have so many problems keeping the rivers down where they’re supposed to be, seeing them disappear entirely – as many have in that region – is terrifying.

11. TOURISTS GO HOME!

12. Just please don’t bring the hot weather, is already too hot for me in my usually cold country🥵

13. Scotland is heaving with Spaniards- at times in Edinburgh you hardly hear anything but Spanish. It’s time we put up barriers to stop them buying up all the good properties so they can retire here. Maybe best to require visas for any stay more than 30 days. 

14. My millionaire genie wishes idea has always been to live on a yacht and sail to scandinavia during the summer.

    Beat the heat.

15. This is not happening.

16. Not only Denmark – I have never seen the ferries to and from Finland so booked out as this summer!