I thought I'd start a new thread for updates on my cancer treatments and whatever else is going on, since the bad news thread title is misleading now.
My last treatment went better than the previous two and my chest wound is still closed up, which is a good thing. My arm is getting slightly stronger and I hope to resume lifting dumbbells next week. I need to build up my strength again, because I am going back to Denmark in May and I am extremely pumped about that! I'd like to be able to schlepp my own checked bag and not have someone else lifting it for me.
It's going to be a fabulous trip, 6 weeks and a couple of days for me. My brother is going along as well as my friends Chipp and Rod. Chipp is staying close to 3 weeks and has not gone with me over there since 2006 so he is also very pumped to be going. It will be Rod's first trip and he will be there for 2 weeks. I will get to be a tour guide. Also, I am throwing a party in my favorite pub of all, the wonderful, ever-magnificent Irish House in Aalborg on May 7th. The owner and I are friends and he will give me a little discount. We'll have Irish stew and brews in the cellar and I hope to have around 25 family and friends there. I might bill it as the "Fu** Cancer Party." A few months back, I was not sure I'd ever be able to go over to Denmark again or if I'd even be alive, but the cancer hasn't gotten me yet. I'm doing a number on it, instead.
Some other cool things I plan to do when I am back in my ancestral lands include a wine tasting in a castle, touring another castle and the northernmost manor home in the country, and visiting Skagen, the top of Denmark, where you can stand on a little patch of beach and have one foot in one sea and one in another. They also have a brewpub up there I am wanting to check out. I will start and end my trip in Aalborg and spend 5 weeks in an apartment I rent that is very close to the beach. I can hardly wait for May 4th to roll around! [Reply]
Originally Posted by scho63:
Aside from beer, what else do the Danes like to drink?
Aside from coffee, they like wine, Irish coffee, rum, hard cider, and various bitters and the girls like Bacardi breezers and mojitos. The old guard where I am have a saying that ryhmes in Danish but translated it is: We don't care what is on the label as long as our caps spin. [Reply]
Sascha took a photo of me in the cafe. The other photos, I shot last night at 11:45 pm. I am so far north that this time of year, it does not get completely dark at all.
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
Aside from coffee, they like wine, Irish coffee, rum, hard cider, and various bitters and the girls like Bacardi breezers and mojitos. The old guard where I am have a saying that ryhmes in Danish but translated it is: We don't care what is on the label as long as our caps spin.
I do not recall if I gave details before back in April, but I am now sitting in Cafe Frandsen enjoying the newly acquired Guinness Porter, my second bottle since my first in the Irish House. It's not a typical porter as it is rather light and the color is comparable to Coke or Pepsi. It's only 3.8% alcohol, too, but it has a lot of flavor. The Guiness stout roasted malt flavor is there but not as intense as the stout. I like it, although it's not what I think of when I think of porters. If someone told me it was a black lager, I would have believed it. Sascha asked me about the beer before she got some new ones in stock, so maybe I had some influence in her decision to carry the brew. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
I do not recall if I gave details before back in April, but I am now sitting in Cafe Frandsen enjoying the newly acquired Guinness Porter, my second bottle since my first in the Irish House. It's not a typical porter as it is rather light and the color is comparable to Coke or Pepsi. It's only 3.8% alcohol, too, but it has a lot of flavor. The Guiness stout roasted malt flavor is there but not as intense as the stout. I like it, although it's not what I think of when I think of porters. If someone told me it was a black lager, I would have believed it. Sascha asked me about the beer before she got some new ones in stock, so maybe I had some influence in her decision to carry the brew.
I noticed that the Euro-beers, even Heineken, taste fantastic on the home soil compared to what we get in the states.
Originally Posted by Dagnabit:
I noticed that the Euro-beers, even Heineken, taste fantastic on the home soil compared to what we get in the states.
Enjoy!
One thing about Heinken that is the same over here is when it is fresh, it is decent, but the instant it gets old, it turns to skunk beer. I've never encountered a beer that can turn as fast as Heineken. [Reply]
