Driving back from Sweden to Jutland, in Denmark, heading south for Germany we cross the sweeping, graceful bridges that span many kilometres and link Sweden with Copenhagen and then with the island of Odense. We have clear blue skies and on our left are 60 wind turbines, standing deep in the blue sea.
Denmark and [...]
Archive for the ‘Denmark’ Category
Leaving Scandinavia
Posted in Denmark on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Denmark – Copenhagen
Posted in Denmark on September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We went to Tivoli Gardens which is a theme park in Copenhagen. We weren’t going to go until we saw there was an end of season special for less than half price. Since it is in the centre of the town we decided to go there briefly at first, then look around the town for [...]
Denmark
Posted in Denmark on September 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Flat, tidy, wealthy and friendly, with almost as many bicycles as Amsterdam. And everyone speaks incredibly good English ….the girl on the checkout, the man directing traffic for road works, the passer by whom I accost at the petrol station. Like the Dutch, they subtitle rather than dub English and American programmes on TV (our [...]
Ribe – Owls and Archery
Posted in Denmark on September 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today we went to a place called the Viking Centre where everybody wears old Viking clothes and walks around doing stuff that people from the Viking age would actually do, such as filling water jugs, putting holes in horse bones to make tools and making arrow heads at the blacksmith’s forge. Everything they use and wear [...]
Ribe –Vikings and Slushies
Posted in Denmark on September 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday we arrived in Ribe and went for a walk to the Viking museum. When we got there it was closing in 20 mins so only Joseph, Patrick and I went in – which was good bcse children were free.
There were lots of exhibitions but we headed straight for the playing area. We tried [...]
Arhus (2)
Posted in Denmark on September 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We are staying in a youth hostel and in the TV room there is a pool table. The glass covering where the balls are kept is broken so we can have heaps of free games.
Denmark is really expensive. I know this because a small chips at McDonald’s costs 15 kroner ($5 NZ) and a [...]
Arhus, Denmark
Posted in Denmark on September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Staying in a Youth Hostel here while Brian is at a conference.
We have still been tenting up til now and even had some lovely weather in Nthn Germany – tho freezing at night (the stupid Kathmandu sleeping bags that B and I bought for ourselves at over $100 each feel more like KMart $24.95 jobs [...]
