General posts about Mary and Frederik, that does not belong to a specific topic.
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A BT article
http://www.bt.dk/royale/vennen-afsloerer-k...ejsehemmelighed
about Holger Foss, a close friend of Frederik, who is giving an interview in Børsen Weekend - a financial magazine.
In that article he tells about how he and Frederik cruised through USA after finishing at at Aarhus University.
Excerpts from: Vennen afslører Frederiks rejsehemmelighed - Friend reveals Frederik's travel secret. (*)
Written by Kenan Seeberg.
Today 42 years old Holger Foss, who is sales manager in Tieto Danmark, and still a close friend of the Crown Prince, reveals that Frederik lived at a hostel, when they both toured around in USA in an old worn Cadillac Convertible worth 2.500 $, after studying in Århus. (**)
- "We had the Cadillac shined up a bit, packed two rucksacks, two rolled up mattrasses and tape recorder, and a thick book with addresses of all sorts of people, we could on the way (***) and then we drove", tells Foss.
On the way trough USA the two friends among other places slept in the car, camped in a national park and spend the night at ordinary Americans, whom they met on the way.
- "We lived at hostels, at a ranch in Nevada, at a Mormon family in Utah, we camped in a national park, and we lived in the car at Graceland (you know: Elvis), because it rained so much", tells Holger Foss to Børsen Weekend.
The trip lasted a month and a half, where the Crown Prince was almost incognito. (****)
- "The good thing about both Århus and USA was that, people may have known who Frederik was, but that was it. Back then we had some free space", tells Holger Foss. (*****)
(*) Not that sensational. Details from that journey was also mentioned in a recent portrait book about Frederik.
(**) And later Harward, if I remember correctly.
(***) They stayed with some of these people.
(****) However they may have had to explain why two anonymous gentlemen from PET was always trailing Frederik around.
(*****) One of the reasons why Frederik enjoyed his time at Aarhus University was that even though he was naturally recogniced when he went to town, he was left alone.