Word: gedser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Course: 28 miles along the international ferry route from Gedser on the southern tip of Denmark's Falster Island to Nienhagen, Germany...
...longer than that across the Little Belt, which will link Sjaelland (not Zealand) to the east coast of Fyen (not Fünen), viz.: the Storstrøm bridge connects Sjaelland to the north with a small island lying north of Falster on the direct line to Berlin over Gedser-Warnem...
Lank King Christian had a personal as well as a patriotic interest in all this. Frequently he has taken the southern expresses from his capital to France. Returning once his private train nearly rolled off the ferry between Warnemünde and Gedser. On the same ferry some years later His Majesty was icebound all night. Last week in the bitter cold, he snipped the ribbon to open the bridge, while 30,000 of the 150,000 Danes who were expected roared approval, and a special radio car broadcast the ceremonies in four languages, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German...
| 1 |