Nothing Like a Dane: A real-life search for hygge in Denmark

The Danish concept of hygge is a wonderful thing. Even if most fail miserably when they try to pronounce or explain its true essence. Unless you're a Viking of course.

As Keri stood in the departure lounge of Auckland International Airport with her four-month-old baby, searching for her flight on the board, hygge wasn't on her radar. In hindsight she agrees it probably should have been.

But she'd never imagined a chance encounter with a Dane in a crowded bar in her home city of Wellington wo...