Stress and calm

Airports are just ridiculously large greedy and unsustainable. I along with everybody else have enjoyed my trips abroad, but they have become increasingly difficult and stressful, especially going through all the security screening procedures. The current campaign to reduce our emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases means that this whole industry is going to have to shrink, very rapidly.

In fact our journey from Faversham to Espergærde was fine, smooth, and without incident. I did not like sitting in front of a woman in the plane coughing her guts out with a really horrible infection, but it seems there was nothing I could do about it.

It was very nice coming back into Denmark which seems very calm and unstressed, compared to the excitements in Britain. As we left the Prime Minister, B Johnson, was seeing the Queen to ask her to prorogue Parliament. The internet was awash with campaigns, petitions, protest, insults, and anxieties about the failure of democracy.

The train journey up along the Øresund coast takes you through woods, tiny fields, villages, golf course landscape and suburbs. We were in a designated quiet coach, and glimpsed the sea on one side and a huge red sunset on the other.

It was also delightful to meet up with my uncle Chris and his Danish wife, where we are staying for a few days. We ate supper on their terrace overlooking the garden, in the peaceful evening light. And then slept soundly on a sofa bed.