Scandinavian sixth sense, Viking gold, plus why I’m eating potatoes all next week

Fetch your coat and find a mitten or two: winter has arrived in Denmark. How liquorice, Björk, treasure, fish and football are helping us through

It’s cold. I’m typing in fingerless gloves and wearing a scarf indoors. And yet…there’s an unspoken rule that no one busts out their ‘real’ winter clothes in Denmark until after ‘potato week’ - when farmers traditionally kept children off school in mid-October to help with the harvest. In 1899, this was made an official school holiday (16-20^th this year…