An atypical networking group who likes to stay fit
Running down new contacts with Randstad
If you've encountered a decent number of yellow jackets around Copenhagen ...
Dagmar with her husband, Emporer Alexander III
Consorting with the kings and tsars for nearly a millennium
This year marks the 523rd anniversary of the start of official diplomatic ...
Surgery to counter droopy eyelids is the most popular among the young in Denmark (photo: iStock)
Many Danish women considering plastic surgery this year
Some 136,000 Danish women over the age of 18 are expecting to have or consi...
The digital ads will be appearing across the capital through the summer (photo: AFA JCDecaux)
Outdoor digital ads going live in Copenhagen
From the walking streets to the train stations, the first outdoor digital a...
This photo of the act went viral on social media, drawing widespread condemnation (photo: Twitter)
Infamous ‘Spitting Man’ agrees to pay fine for racist behaviour
The 58-year-old Danish man, who last September became infamous as 'The Spit...
He will now undergo a psychiatric evaluation (photo: iStock)
‘Unbalanced’ armed man arrested in Sorø
A man described as 'unbalanced' by police, who on Wednesday morning barrica...

Hurry! 10% discount just for you. Discount code: "CPHPOST"

Body Scrub - Purify
€30.00
Body Scrub – Recharger
€30.20
Bath Salt
€24.85
Lip Kit
€16.80

Life in Denmark

Club night outside the Dub (photos: Alessandra Palmitesta)
St Patrick’s Day in Copenhagen: Nobody does it better!
March 18th, 2016 5:14 pm

“They drink a lot in Ireland and they drink a whole lot in Denmark, so it’s a perfect combination of cultures!”

A raised arm is encouraged in Danish society. Children can sometimes ask difficult questions to which adults are inclined to give honest answers
The fairly odd parents: Are Danes world leaders or poor breeders?
January 29th, 2016 7:00 pm

The tendency is to be honest and not mollycoddle children – and that’s healthy, argues an expert on public health.

Alternating between sea and land, one thing's for sure: it's always pretty wet (photo: NPV_John Frikke)
Into the Wetlands: Keeping Denmark’s Everglades on the map, handling 12 million flights a year
January 22nd, 2016 7:00 pm

For over five years, the Wadden Sea National Park has been working tirelessly to strengthen the area’s nature protection and cultural history and provide visitors with unique experiences

Sign up to receive The Daily Post


Events

Comedian and travel documentary maker Michael Palin, a huge fan of the artist, was among the guests at the opening of the exhibition earlier this month (photo: Hasse Ferrod)
Capturing the essence of one of Denmark’s most important, and Michael Palin’s favourite, artists
March 18th, 2016 10:28 am

Attending this Vilhelm Hammershøi exhibition is heartily recommended

History

Dagmar with her husband, Emporer Alexander III
Consorting with the kings and tsars for nearly a millennium
April 7th, 2016 8:34 am

Official diplomatic ties have existed between Denmark and Russia for over 520 years, but their shared history goes back much further than that

Anders Fogh Rasmussen has really let himself go since the Weichsel glaciation age (photo: Sven Rosborn)
From wild winter wilderness to Bronze Age bog bodies
March 28th, 2016 7:06 pm

How Denmark came to be inhabited, from the cold and distant past to early cultural development

His fallback as a children's party entertainer never really took off (photo: Fanart.tv)
The birth of black metal: through the Mercyful Fate of our king
March 27th, 2016 7:00 pm

Lars Ulrich might be his country’s most valuable metal export, but will his legacy endure as long as Diamond’s?

Georg Brandes is seen as the theorist behind the 'Modern Breakthrough' of Scandinavian culture (photo: Den Hirschsprungske Samling)
A visionary branded subversive by the right and elitist by the left
March 27th, 2016 7:00 am

Loved and hated equally by his peers, Georg Brandes led Scandinavian literature’s ‘Modern Breakthrough’

Søren (left) on set with Pele and somebody from Ipswich Town (all photos: Søren Lindsted)
Escapism with Pelé and Stallone on the set of a cult classic
March 26th, 2016 7:00 pm

Søren Lindsted may not be a household name in his native Denmark, but fans of ‘Escape to Victory’ remember him well for his contribution to the much loved football film