Thursday, 10 July 2008

Road Works and Do You Speak Danish?

This is the world famous Fleet Street and these road works have been here since Monday. But for the last couple of days they have been unattended by any road workers. Some one who works in the Oggy Oggy Pasty Shop which has the roadworks right outside their main entrance and is probably the best pasty shop in Torquay tells me he hasn't seen any workmen for a couple of days either. Where are they? Moonlighting or waiting for some spare part to be flown in from Inner Mongolia or just forgotten where exactly they left all these bright red barriers? I do remember reading something about a local authority strike but I sure that was a few days or even weeks ago. So why this continued bottleneck and eyesore in Torquay's main street?

While I was waiting for a bus earlier in the day I noticed this Danish car with an ad on the spare wheel cover. Now we don't see too many Danish cars with ads on the back so I decided to visit the web site, having a wild guess that it might be something to do with gardening. I am not much wiser except I now know it is nothing to do with gardening. If you can speak Danish maybe you can tell me what they sell at http://www.krebshusgaarden.dk/.

3 comments:

The Muller said...

The Danes appear to be advertising a gift shop. See
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.krebshusgaarden.dk%2F&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=da&tl=en

Anonymous said...

Forget pasties for a moment, delicious though they are from that shop. That Vitara with the foreign advertising was parked outside the pastry shop. Which one? - the Danish Pastry shop of course!

Mette Blume said...

Hello!
We speak Danish and we can give an explanation of what the Danes sells at Krebshusgården - because we ARE the Danes on Krebshusgaarden!
We searched on Google "Krebshusgaarden" which is the name of our farm and thought it was funny that there was a picture of our car from our holiday in england.
We live in the living room of the house Krebshusgården and have our shop in the old laborer chambers in one of the farms four extension.
In the shop, we do not have garden things or pastry, but gifts and handicrafts. We are selling candles, porcelain, teddy bears, jewelry, chocolates, wines and much more.Det is a really nice and cozy little shop.
In July, we were on holiday in England. We sailed with Esbjerg/Harwich and was in Bath, Torquay, New Forest, Brigton and Rye. We had a nice holiday with our two children, a boy of 20 and a girl of 14 years.
It was funny that our car had been photographed on holiday - and even more fun to visit this blog.
Sincerely,
Jan & Mette Blume Larsen, Krebshusgaarden, Denmark.