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The Spontaneous Dane: Why Friendship Needs a Calendar

How to Live in Denmark by Kay Xander Mellish

Mar 30, 202606:26Society & Culture

Danes usually don't do spontaneous. They do calendars. This episode looks at why a country that can count 8,000 ballots in three hours still needs two weeks' notice for almost everything else. From perfectly timed buses...

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The Spontaneous Dane: Why Friendship Needs a Calendar is an episode from How to Live in Denmark by Kay Xander Mellish. Danes usually don't do spontaneous. They do calendars. This episode looks at why a country that can count 8,000 ballots i...

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Published Mar 30, 2026, 06:26 long, audio available.

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