Letter from Copenhagen

The new restrictions pose particular challenges for our more notherly-based smokers. In both Copenhagen and Stockholm I now see smokers perched outside clubs and bars and cafes in serious-tog rated parkas grabbing a quick cigarette. In these temperatures, you have to be serious to leave all your comforts behind. No wonder smoking has dropped by 15% already in Sweden. And that was in an 'easy' winter.

Denmark reminds me how wonderful it would be we could have dedicated, wide, ubiquitous cycle-ways as they have: they are a joy to use.