Scanning Scandinavia; What would Hans Christian Andersen have to say today?

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From: Jewish Exponent
Date: 20060119
Author:Alper, Mort

Alper, Mort
Jewish Exponent
01-19-2006
What a wonderful surprise when tourists clutch phrase books that are only
needed for extreme emergencies like "Where's the dollar store?" You can
have a happy face in Denmark and Norway because many locals speak English.

While these two countries don't cover all of Scandinavia, if you only have
limited time much can be seen when traveling by plane. Perhaps it's not
true, but when you see the parade of blond-haired, blue-eyed men, women and
children strolling by, there's a feeling that Scandinavians were the first
to clone people.

The starting point can be ...

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