Off again
2019年6月24日, オーストラリア ⋅ 🌙 6 °C
Leaving Melb tonight
Dubai then Denmark.
2019年6月25日, アラブ首長国連邦 ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
3 hour stopover in Dubai airport
Roskilde
2019年6月25日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
After 24 hours in planes and an airport, we make it to Copenhagen. We have slept a bit so not too tired.
We take train from the airport to Roskilde where we stay at a Danhostel backpackers on theもっと詳しく
Roskilde Viking Museum
2019年6月26日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Truly amazing museum.
Steve didn't want to go but was very pleased he did.
6 Viking ships were recovered from the fjord mud and have been reconstructed. They were scuttled around 900 years ago toもっと詳しく
Odense
2019年6月26日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Odense is the home town of Hans Christian Andersen, the author of all the famous fairy tales.
I saw the H C Anderson museum 2 years ago, Steve wasn't interested so we explored the town on foot, had aもっと詳しく
Odense Street Art
2019年6月26日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Food and drink
2019年6月26日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
We found a street food place-it was great. Storms Pakhus is an old warehouse converted to undercover food hall.
We also found an Aussie bar.
Danish Railway Museum
2019年6月27日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Very interesting museum
Catching up with Ruby
2019年6月27日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Next stop was Vejle where Ruby, our niece, is living on a student exchange program. She's been here since January and leaves in December.
She met us in town and showed us around then we had dinner atもっと詳しく
Legoland
2019年6月28日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Just a small sample of the original Legoland in Billund, Denmark.
Steve and Ruby did all the rides.
Some amazing creations
Legoland critters
2019年6月28日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Back with Thor
2019年6月28日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
After Legoland we go back to our hotel to pick up our gear and train to Aarhus where Thor and Karen pick us up.
For Maree, it's like coming home, this is my 3rd time back.
As usual Thor's familyもっと詳しく
The Mill
2019年6月29日, デンマーク ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Thor drives us to Visloft where the family own and are restoring a mill.
On the way we stop to visit a castle ruin and have an ice-cream.
Karen and Ib and 2 grandsons, Hugo and Albert, are alreadyもっと詳しく
Moesgaard Museum
2019年6月30日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
A very impressive museum. Lots of interactive exhibits. The Big Man, a preserved body found in a bog.
Part of one exhibition, how we honour and remember our dead, are the Australian Aboriginal mobもっと詳しく
Hanging out with Thor
2019年6月30日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Today Thor took us to Moesgaard Museum and then a lovely lunch close by. Then for a swim. It is 28 degrees, very much a heat wave here. I've swum in Denmark! The water was a similar temperature toもっと詳しく
Jelling
2019年7月1日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Steve and I go for a walk along the walk/ride track while Their sorts out his plumbing problem.
We pick up Ruby so she can stay with us for a few days.
We visit the Jelling history museum. Theもっと詳しく
Exploring Aarhus
2019年7月2日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Walked into town, 5 km, this morning along the stream past "home".
Met Thor at train station where he had picked up a hire car for 2 days. He used Gomore, which is a platform where you can hireもっと詳しく
Aarhus street art
2019年7月2日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Birthday tea with Malte
2019年7月2日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
We went to Thor's brother, Malte's place for tea tonight. He and his wife, Mia, have a 3 week old baby, Mice (pronounced Mesa) .
Mesa was born at home, with little birds chirping. The birds are Miceもっと詳しく
Happy Birthday Thor and Steve
2019年7月3日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Ebeltoft
2019年7月3日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
We revisited Ebeltoft for lunch. We saw the ship museum, walked the old town and had lunch at the same place we had Thor and Steve's 18/50th birthday 7 years ago. It was lovely
Farewell Danish meal
2019年7月3日, デンマーク ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Last supper, as I called it.
The Dane's celebrate most events with their flag, and they included ours as napkins. It was a lovely Danish meal
Berlin by Flixbus
2019年7月4日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
9 hours on a bus. Wasn't too bad actually. You must take your own food though.
Thor and family suggested we try the bus as it's cheaper and more scenic than the train.
HOHO bus and boat
2019年7月5日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
East and West Berlin are now one city but you can still see the difference. Old vs new.
There looks to be a lot of gold featured on the statues and old buildings too.
We did the Hop on hop off busもっと詳しく
