Oh and I forgot to mention my near death experience. When I hired the bicycle, I was quite nervous as I have only been cycling twice in recent memory (once in San Francisco and once on Rottnest Island two years ago). Danish law doesn't require helmets so the bike hire place doesn't feel the need to stock them, which made me even more nervous. The guy seemed to find this quite amusing and assured me that everything would be fine and sent me on my way with my bike....

As I am writing this, I am currently on a train, pulling out of Malmo station, in the very south of Sweden on the way to Copenhagen from Stockholm. I just got the bejeezus scared out of me by a "helpful" local who as he, and indeed the entire other occupancy of my carriage, alighted at Malmo kindly said "You should get off the train now" to which I replied "Oh, I thought this went directly to Copenhagen" and he said "Oh, aaaah, ...