Fuelling the imagination. Motorists in Denmark can fill up at a national monument. Arne Jacobsen’s strikingly modernist petrol station from the 1930s. PHOTO: John Young *First published in Business Day 25 January 2019.* **Country is a world leader with its take on Scandinavian design ethic.** Lovers of Paul Gauguin’s art love visiting Copenhagen, which is ironic because he lasted barely a year in the city before heading back to France. Gaugin returned once to visit his Danish

 ## John Young meanders through Mandela and finds somewhere closed for lunch. *This article first appeared in The Weekender, 23-24 August 2008.* In this Mandela birthday month, it occurs to me that many people have had lunch *with* Mandela, many more have had lunch *for* Mandela (at fundraisers for his charities) and there has even been a book *about* lunch and Mandela (*Hunger for

## Solar-powering up a community for improved living conditions – and profit. When the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) realised that the forests on the shores of Lake George in the southern Ugandan district of Kasese were being depleted by villagers in search of wood to burn, they turned to a Danish think-tank to help them find a solution. Access²Innovation found the perfect partner in SystemTeknik, an Aalborg-based company that ironically had many years of experience of pro

*First published in Travel & Food, Sunday Times, 27 April 2008.* ## Golfing in Wales separates the men from the boys, and the sheep from the sheepish, writes John Young. Dr Johnson said that when a man is tired of London he is tired of life. He also said, “By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” Which is two parts true and eight parts complete rubbish, as so many famous sayings are. The old cynic once wrote that he was “weary of being at home, an