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Family first! But here I am

Train problems? We never have those!

Way ahead of ya

First of all... It's more than 3½ years old I don't even remember that and therefore can't really say what happened. But well. Berlingske is rather right-leaning, but none the less respectable, and I have great respect for Tinne who wrote that article.

Åbyhøj - Photo: RhinoMind - Wiki As our final host city, we can welcome @Glen, @hckosice and @Finnator123 to Aabyhøj, the lovely suburb to Aarhus and hometown of the defending TISC Open champion, Tina Dickow. Aabyhøj is a rather new place only dating from 1880, as a part of the Eastern suburbs of Aarhus, where it grew from the more than 1000 years older Åby (the city by the stream) and was a part of Aaby municipality. Aaby was a harbor before changing conditions made it impossible to sail up the stream, making Aarhus harbor necessary. The history of Aabyhøj is really the same as many other suburbs in Denmark. It started as farm lands, but as Aarhus grew in the 1800s, the areas surrounding did as well with housing for mainly workers, but also more wealthy people. Åbyhøj Kirke - Photo: RhinoMind - Wiki Aabyhøj has had some decent success in basketball winning the women’s league twice and finished 3rd last year. Most famous people from the town are musicians, but AGF-legend John Stampe should be mentioned as well. Åbyhøj Park - Photo: RhinoMind - Wiki The most well-known thing in the area is where the annual Northside Festival is held, but the small Aaby Park is also worth a stroll and you can take a canoe ride along the stream. But let’s admit it. Even though we don’t have much time left, you will most likely check out some of the attractions of Aarhus, with Den Gamle By within walking distance.

Really didn't know that people knew Dizzy that well

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Kolding Station - Photo: S.Juhl - Wiki With the Grand Final getting close, we can welcome @dezbee2008, @Olympian1010, @thepharoah and @DaniSRB to Kolding, hometown of Blaue Blume who competed at the 2015 Annual Contest. Kolding dates to the second half of the 1100s and for most of the medieval times it was one of the most important cities of the country, including having the castle Koldinghus as an occasional Royal residence for a few hundred years. Due to wars and Plague the city suffered and had trouble growing due to taxes. During the Napoleonic wars, some Spanish mercenaries started a fire at Koldinghus by accident burning major parts down to the ground. Only in the 1890’s restoration of the castle began, finishing about a 100 years later. During these years the city grew steadily becoming the 7th largest city of our country. Koldinghus - Photo: Hubertus - Wiki Kolding is most known for its men’s handball team who has won the Danish Championships a record 14 times. Among the major athletes from the city, two-times Olympic Silver Medalist in heaveweight boxing, Søren Petersen and former Liverpool midfielder Jan Mølby. Kolding Castle Lake - Photo: Hubertus - Wiki As you may have guessed, Koldinghus would be a place that we recommend to visit. Both to see the historic building in a new form but also due to its highly interesting exhibitions. Trapholt Arts museum, a look around in the historic center or by Kolding fiord are also worth the time. And how about bit of pizza? Kolding likes to call themselves Slice-town for a reason!!

Nah. I think I could think of 100 places to mention before Copenhill

And no, @bestmen, I didn't mention the mermaid because of you. Wrote this one a few days ago

Copenhagen Central Station - Photo: Dennis Jarvis - Wiki We can now welcome @bestmen, @Ruslan and @Fly_like_a_don to the capitol of our nation, and birthplace of Amalie Bruun, the woman behind the name Myrkur, Copenhagen. The history of Copenhagen is often said to go back to the bishop Absalon who is said to have acquired parts of the settlements at about 1160. However historic sources mention the area at least 100 years earlier. It was however under the leadership of Absalon that the city grew the most during the medieval ages. It was in the 1400s that the Danish king took residence in the town and made it the most important. Since then it has grown steadily even though attacked several times by both Sweden and the British. Nowadays Copenhagen is a well-known tourist destination with all kinds of attractions. Amalienborg Royal Palace - Photo: Ib Rasmussen - Wiki As the capitol of the country, Copenhagen is of course a major sports city. The football team FC Copenhagen has won numerous national championships and the city has hosted several major sporting events with both the UEFA Euro 2020 and the 2021 Tour de France ahead. Among many sports legends, 1992 European Champion John Jensen and Viggo Jensen, the first Danish Olympic Champion, are from here. The Old roller coaster - Photo: Leif Jørgensen - Wiki It’s hard to pick just a few places to visit in Copenhagen. At the Tivoli you can try the world’s third oldest functioning roller coaster, there are plenty of museums to visit, no matter if you prefer arts or history, you can walk around taking in all the historic view or you can of course go and see the famous statue of the little mermaid.

My main problem with not having TV is that I really miss having Swedish (and sometimes Norwegian) TV channels, especially for sports, but also a few other programs. Sure I can fix a lot of that with a VPN, but that's just more money to spend alongside 3 different streaming services just to have acces to the sports I want to watch and whatever other streaming services for other kinds of entertainment than sports. It's easily more expensive! And an appartment that really isn't built fof good wi-fi doesn't make it better. I really consider going back from time to time and might do so for the Olympics.

And don't say I forgot something Niger Bombino - Amidine

Quite a difference between those 2 speeches

Rødovre Station - Photo: Secondarywaltz - Wiki We’re back in the greater Copenhagen area, where we can welcome @Vektor, @Cobi, @Bohemia and @Benolympique to Rødovre. It was at the local high school that the band Sods played their very first concert back in 1977 in 1981 the band changed name to Sort Sol and later participated in the 2017 TISC Open. Just like many other towns in the greater Copenhagen area, Rødovre was a small farming village before Copenhagen started growing. During the war against Sweden in 1660 the church of the village was destroyed and the villagers ordered to go to another church nearby. In the end of the 1800s, new fortifications around Copenhagen was built including ramparts in the west, cutting small parts of the town from the rest. Rødovre remained a mainly rural town until about 1930, where it became more of a modern suburb. As a such it started growing rapidly and even had the first indoor mall in Denmark. Vestvolden - Photo: Ole Andersen - Flickr It is hard to mention Rødovre and sports without mentioning ice hockey.Rødovre has won the Danish championships 6 times and several of the Danish NHL stars including Jannik Hansen, Mikkel Bødker and Lars Eller had their domestic career here. Heerup Museum - Photo: Ramblersen - Wiki To spend some time here, we recommend the Heerup museum, walking along the old wester ramparts and visiting the cold war bunker, Ejbybunkeren just like a stroll around the Damhus Lake is lovely.

Tønder Station - Photo: Mef.ellingen - Wiki We can now welcome @Function CR Lee, @Manulete and @mrv86 to Tønder, just North of the German border. This is hometown of this year’s Danish TISC Annual contestant, Jacob Dinesen. The city goes back a long way, but the first signs of the city in literature is in fact the Arabian cartographer al-Idrisi who mentions the town in the 1100s. It became the first market town of Denmark when it got its rights in 1243 with trade happening from the original harbor. With the close proximity to Germany the city saw plenty of trade and travel to and from Germany. However to prevent flooding, dykes were built meaning that Tønder isn’t by the sea any longer. Just like the rest of southern Jutland, Tønder was German from 1864 to 1920. Nowadays Tønder is most well known for it’s annual Music Festival, Tønder Festival with folk music as main genre. Among the acts on this year’s festival was former TISC participant Hudson Taylor. Tønder - Photo: Clemensfranz - Wiki Tønder isn’t that much of a sports city. The best handball team, TM Tønder Håndbold, was however in the best series for a couple of years.’Former football national team Henning Munk Jensen is however from Tønder. Tønder Museum and Water tower - Photo: Jürgen Howaldt - Wiki Even though Tønder is a rather small city, we’ll make sure that you will have ways to spend your time here. We have a fine museum of cultural history, a nice exhibition of chairs from the famous designer Hans Wegner, plenty of beautiful nature, lots of historical buildings and several lovely towns nearby.

But he is

Luckily we have plenty of sites to visit that isn't the Little Mermaid

Aarhus Station - Photo: Villy Fink Isaksen - Wiki Hello @Ionoutz24, @titicow, @vinipereira, @konig and @LDOG. Welcome to Aarhus, the host of the 2015 TISC Annual. But other than that, it is also home of Kris Herman, Danish entry in the 2017 Annual contest. Aarhus Cathedral - Photo: Nico - Wiki Aarhus is one of the oldest existing cities in Denmark, having roots all the way back to around 770 AD, where it was called Aros. The first church was most likely built around 1060. The first parts of the current cathedral was however built around in the end of the 1100s. The city grew around the church and harbor. It was however only in the 1800s that it became one of the biggest cities in Denmark when it grew, especially due to some ambitious business men helping to establish the city. During the late 1900s Aarhus was known as the rock capitol of Denmark and still hosts several music festivals and major concerts. ARoS Art Museum - Photo: Teake Oppewal - Wiki In sports, Aarhus is a has the top basketball club of Denmark, Bakken Bears and noteworthy teams in both handball and football and has hosted several European and World Championships. Among the well known athletes from Aarhus is former badminton star Camilla Martin and sailing gold medalists of 2008, Jonas Warrer and Martin Kirketerp. As a former European Capitol of Culture, we have a lot to show you here in Aarhus. The Old Town, ARoS Art Museum and Moesgaard Museum are must-see attractions, but you can also visit the theme park, Tivoli Friheden, go for a stroll in Mindeparken or by the University and go for a concert in one of many concert venues.

Pretty much, yeah. Topped the charts in a few countries (including the Netherlands). Had completely forgotten that it actually got international attention

Frederiksberg Station - Photo: Janus Kannuberg - Wiki It is a pleasure to welcome @Janakis, @IoNuTzZ and @rybak to a rather interesting place, the city within a city, Frederiksberg. It was at Kastanievej Efterskole here in the city that Kasper, Mads and Asger met and formed Kashmir back in 1991. They later became the very first Danish contestants in the TISC history in 2013. In many ways Frederiksberg is a part of Copenhagen, but it is really an autonomous city. As such its history is in many ways as the one of Copenhagen. For a long time, the area was farmland helping feed the castles of Copenhagen. In late 1600s-early 1700s Frederiksberg palace was built, but it was only in 1857 that Frederiksberg became an independent parish and since then it became more and more autonomous. During World War 2 the city met one of the biggest tragedies during the German occupation when by mistake a few British bombers hit the French school killing more than 100, mainly children. Frederiksberg Castle - Photo: Ikiwaner - Wiki Frederiksberg doesn’t have much sports clubs of its own, mainly being in corporation with Copenhagen. However Frederiksberg Allé has become the traditional finish of the “Tour de Denmark”, Postnord Danmark Rundt and several remarkable athletes are from here. Most noteworthy is football legend Michael Laudrup, but 1900 Olympic Tug of War Champion Charles Winckler and Per Lyngemark of the 1968 team pursuit champion team were both born here. Copenhagen Zoo - Photo: Guillaume Baviere - Wiki It’s easy to spend time in Frederiksberg. We have the Copenhagen Zoo and the Storm P museum just like there are plenty of lovely parks. But of course, with several of the main attractions of Copenhagen just a few stops away with the metro, there are many sights just outside Frederiksberg as well.

Danish band Outlandish has a version as well

Lyngby Station - Photo: Leif Jørgensen It is now time to welcome @dcro, @uk12points and @kungshamra71 to the hometown of 2015 TISC Open participant, C. V. Jørgensen, Kongens Lyngby. No problem getting here with the S-train? The area has seen settlements all the way back to the stone age. The city itself however dates back to the Viking ages but mainly grew up around the church built in the 12th century and since made langer. The city slowly grew during the years, especially when the railroad from Copenhagen started passing through, making some of the rich people from Copenhagen move here. In 1888 the main street of Lyngby was the first in Denmark to get electrical street lighting. Lyngby is also the site of one of many royal palaces, the lovely Sorgenfri Palace from 1756. Sorgenfri Palace - Photo: Paul Maingot In sports, Lyngby has a football team in the best Danish league and has fostered major athletes like Wimbledon doubles winner Frederik Løchte Nielsen, the Olympic swimmer Jeanette Ottesen and leading goal scorer of the 1992 UEFA Euro, Henrik Larsen. Frilandsmuseet - Photo: Bjonsson The most well-known site of Lyngby is the open-air museum “Frilandsmuseet”, but a nice trip around Lake Lyngby, the historic country house Frieboeshvile, Brede Works industrial museum, The Park around Sorgenfri Castle and the small music venue “Templet” are other fine ways to make the time pass before the big contest.

You gotta give it to him... That's smarter than a rather big part of his voters Plenty of people wouldn't know where those countries are!

Hellerup Station - Photo: Leif Jørgensen Wikipedia We can now welcome @amen09, @tuniscof, @OlympicIRL and @KingOfTheRhinos to Hellerup, hometown of the band Mew who represented Denmark at TISC Open 2014. I expect that it has been easy to get here! Hellerup is named after justice Johan David Heller who bought the country house Lokkerup in 1748 and renamed it Hellerupgaard. The actual city however only goes back to the late 1800’s where Carl Ludvig Ibsen began buying the area and building the town in close proximity of Copenhagen. At about the same time, the Tuborg Brewery was started in the area and was a major part of the city’s industry for about 100 years until the last beer was made here in 1996. Though many signs of the brewery have been taken down, a 26m tall observation tower in the shape of a beer bottle is still standing. Hellerup also has a place for reminding the darker times, as Ryvangen Memorial Park is situated here. The Park where one of the major execution places during the Nazi occupation was situated, is now a memorial of the resistance fighters who lost their lives during the occupation. Tuborgflasken - Photo: Wikipedia Though Hellerup isn’t very known for sports, with the tennis club being the only major competitor nationally, some noteworthy athletes are from the town including Ole Berntsen, gold medalist in Dragon sailing at the 1964 Olympics and dressage legend Lis Hartel who won two Olympic silvers in dressage even though paralyzed from the waist down. Experimentarium - Photo: Andersbruun - Wiki With the proximity to Copenhagen, there are plenty of attractions within a short train ride and within a walking distance we have the Science Center, Experimentarium, the lovely Øregaard Museum, Ryvangen and some nice ocean views to get some fresh air.