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2000s: Hygges and all things Christmas in Denmark!
Hygge and Kisses
What you need to know before your trail
Bo, 26 has just been made redundant and her life plan is beginning to unravel.Before making her next step, her friend Kirsten invites her on holiday to spend time with her family, she jumps at the chance. A change is as good as a rest as they say!
Time is needed to work out what she’s going to do with the rest of her life and it might just be that a cold spell in Denmark might just warm her heart!
Locations
Reset- Denmark - Skagen
- A: Grenen
- B: Aalborg Airport
- C: Skagen Museum
- D: Skagen harbour
- E: Skagen Train station
- England - London
- F: Farringdon Station
- G: Shoreditch
Travel Guide
Aalborg, North Jutland
A part of Denmark Bo is ashamed to admit she has never heard of. Never mind that, it’s going to be a time to recharge and in a chance to take stock of her life.
When she asks what the weather is like there, Kirsten’s answer is “London is positively Mediterranean by comparison, and of course it’s November so it’ll be dark seventeen hours a day. But no one goes to Denmark to get a tan.”
There are some nice sights in Aalborg though it would seem, and not just of the human kind!
Grenen
A long strip of sand that Emil tells them is famous in the country. It sits at the northernmost tip of the country where waves from the North Sea and the Baltic collide”
So what is the hygge aspect of the book? Denmark features for the middle section of the book at just over 100 pages but in this time, the landscape is neatly crafted and full of hygge:
“We have the perfect hyggeligt environment…a cosy house, a fire in the stove, candles”
Streetview Maps
A) Denmark - Skagen - Grenen
E) Denmark - Skagen - harbour
Booktrailer Review
Susan: @thebooktrailer
A holiday in a summerhouse in Skagen?
A bit of hygge to warm the cockles of your heart?
Whilst there’s not as much hygge in the novel as I would have liked, the 130 pages dedicated to Denmark do make you feel nice and cosy. Emil is the chef who introduces Hygge.and who inspires Bo towards her passion in baking. Places in Skagen such as Grenen are mentioned rather than evoked but it still made me want to go. It’s in direct contrast from the cold, soggy London of the opening chapters!
There’s a nice message of how the idea of Hygge can make you reconsider your life and make changes for the better. It’s a way of seeing the world too and makes for a nice feel good novel at Christmas especially!
I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a quick and cosy read as we head into the colder season.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Hygge and Kisses
Destination: Skagen, London Author/Guide: Clara Christensen Departure Time: 2000s
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