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Old 07-29-2009, 12:58 PM   #144
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Originally Posted by montsnmags View Post
Just curious...what does "less than a day" work out to in driving hours and road kilometres?
Was just a vague ballbark number. It's more or less what Sweetpea said - but perhaps it'd be a bit more fair to go north-west to south-east, instead of north-south. It covers more of the country. From Skagen to Gedser there's 550 km ~6+ hours. And then we haven't counted in the island of Bornholm (south-east of Sweden) - and if we say it's the Kingdom of Denmark, instead of just the country, and include Greenland and the Faeroes, then the distances will be a bit different

100 km equal one hour here, too, but I'd stil say that a distance is so and so km. I was in USA when I was 18 at a summer exchange program, and it was there I learned to give distance in time.

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Oh, well, that's a drag. And now that you mention it, I remember seeing shows about all of the new bridges and such between the countries, and the terrific highway system to match.
Yes, it was recently decided to build a bridge to Germany from one of the south eastern islands - but it will take at least ten years until it is completed. Now that it's decided, I guess the next task is to find the money

The railways in Europe is also a hot topic right now. Very tentatively discussed, but there's suggestions of building high-speed railways between the major European cities - for one reason to cut down on air traffic and thus CO2 emissions.
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