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Vordingborg
Travel Blogs from Vordingborg, Denmark
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May the bird of peace sh@t on your shoulder...
This is a top pick! ... tables around us and I couldn't believe my luck! Haha, it was classic. From the historic town we went into Vordingborg which, as it turns out, used to be the capital of Denmark. We explore the old castle and the gardens surrounding ...
Copenhagen in a day...
This is a top pick! ... 20. Tina lives in a tiny town/village/street/gathering of a few houses on a small island 15 minutes outside of Vordingborg, which is itself an hour and a half south of Copenhagen. Tina picks me up at the train station and by ...
A thoroughly indulgent day
We slept like logs. It's great being back at anchor again, it feels 'right’ somehow. It had rained a little during the night but by morning it was dry and calm and there was some promise of the weather improving as the day progressed. We liked it ...
A lovely anchorage
We now have until 2nd August to cruise down around the south coast of Zealand and back north again on the western side, to end up in Århus, where Helen joins us for a week. However firstly we needed to shop to replenish supplies including a questionable ...
A windy day
... bright sunny morning so again we could look forward to sailing at least some of the way to our next destination, the marina at Vordingborg, only 13 miles away. It was a bit of a struggle extricating the anchor from the clayey sand, it would have held ...
Arriving in Denmark and the funeral
On the onwards 13-hour flight to Copenhagen I had as a companion a young Danish "boat engineer" (maskinmester), who worked a a Maersk boat contracted to provide services to oil rigs being built off the coast of Western Australia. He worked 5 weeks on and ...
Jacob's birthday get-together
... old lighthouse on Bogø to celebrate Jacob's birthday. I had heard about these get-togethers at the beach before but never been in Denmark to participate. On the way there the others were stopped by a just-mowed paddock. I wondered what was up. They were ...
My return to Mern
... minutes late. Never mind. We had a beautiful sunset and the wait didn't seem so bad. Eventually, after a six hour journey we reached Vordingborg, where Ebba met me. At my mother's we had a cup of tea and I had a sandwich. They pitied my journey. I pitied ...
Detour to Kastrup Kirke
... are flying the flag (quite hard to get a photo of a bus from the right angle while driving...). I had an errand in Vordingborg and decided to go via Kastrup Kirke because I remembered some Allied Soldiers were buried there. I was wrong! I found the ...
Denmark in early spring - how beautiful!
... nbsp;(link might be part of a white supremacist site) off the Danish west coast AFTER the war was over - a violation of the conventions Denmark had signed in 1932-33. Also one about a local WW2 hero, Anders Lassen, to whom there's a memorial plaque in ...
A rainy day
... clay and I wonder how they put it on. I keep learning new ways of doing thins. Because of the huge pig population in Denmark, pig farmers have enormous pig waste to get rid of. High in ammoniac, it has to be contained in completely sealed vats. Earlier, ...
My god mother and a 75th birthday
... singer Hansi Ninterseer. Amazingly, he was also a champion skier! My aunt works as a volunteer at the Red Cross shop in Vordingborg and had made a huge batch of Danish æbleskiver as a thank you for their birthday gifts. I had three. Yum! I ...
Friends, outings - and an accident
... . We also saw the church and Herlufsholm School founded in 1565. We also explored Susåen, the biggest river on Sjælland and Denmark's third longest river. A great brochure (PDF) about canoeing on the river is available here - in Danish! Have a look at ...
Birthday party at Tanja and Erik's
... sanitation - terrible! The list of diseases very serious. Nevertheless, fewer than expected died and this temporary hospital was closed 3-4 months later. In all 200,000 German refugees came to Denmark and were gradually resettled back in Germany by ...
A sviptur to Copenhagen
'Sviptur' means a quick trip. Today the destination was Copenhagen. Sanne took her car and had coffee and croissant from the cafe onboard. Copenhagen is a little over an hour away. We parked at the big department store, Magasin. Very expensive parking ...
Washing day, Copenhagen and Vordingborg Festuge
The week started with washing day, just like in the old days with one exception: a brand new washing machine. My father and I washed all day... bed linen, towels, underwear, shorts, the works. Everything dries in a moment in 30 degrees' heat. Nice and ...
I went to church!
Today is Easter Sunday. Mu mother and I went to church - Højmesse. We argued about where to sit. I wanted to be near the front where I could see and hear. A total of 13 people attended. Seven psalms were sung but I didn't really know any of them except ...
My birthday
Home from Home Hostel and arriving in Denmark
You might wonder what a hostel in Moscow looks like. I stayed at the Home from Home Hostel, a unique place that can best be described as bohemian and funky. It's on the first and second floor of an old Soviet-style apartment building. Parquet floors and ...
KLAR TIL AFGANG - Trods modvind !
Kl. lidt i 18 ringede min telefon....... "Good Evening - This is DELTA Airlines.... I got good and bad news for you - (STOR PAUSE...) Your flight tomorrow to United States has been cancelled......." Den gode nyhed er dog at vi har fået plads på et ...
Cemetery, Vordingborg and Erik and Tanja
... would never have managed if she had died first. She thinks and talks quite a bit bout him as do I and everyone else. I went to Vordingborg in the F16 (an old Mazda 323 station car, circa 1990). I needed to do some Internetting at Sannes's café. Then went ...
Stone mason - and then some retail therapy
... , of course, and very delicious. Sanne was frightfully busy as always but we had a chance to catch up with her. Vordingborg is as many cities in Denmark very old. A huge fortified castle was built in the 13th Century. One of seven towers remain, popularly ...
Tour of Præstø and surroundings
My mother needed to go to the bank in Præstø. She got all the money sorted, which accounts she can touch and the new one she has established. You can tell she is used to doing all the banking for their business for, well, more than 50 years, ...
Memories, Café Einstein and a VIP birthday
... soft boiled eggs for breakfast with rye bread. My niece's husband Claus dropped me off in the "CBD" (much laughter as Vordingborg has a population of 11,537). I wandered along the pedestrian street ending up at my sister's Café Einstein for ...
Næsten klar.
Så er vi kommet lidt tættere på den store tur. Vi har fået billeterne, det var godt, tiden nærmere sig jo. Der er også blevet lavet visa til USA og boarding pas til skibet. Så nu er det jo bare dagene der skal ...
Three school friends after 45 years
Today I arranged a meeting with two of my best friends from my school days, Inge Lise and Lone. We spent 10 years together and the other two had not met since we left school 45 years' ago. It must have been strange for them but as I have seen them both ...
Riding the ponies
The big event of the day was to see Marie and Elizabeth ride their ponies: Bella, a Dartmoor pony, and Sofie, a Shetland pony. First they had to be brushed, then the saddles and bridles were put on. Elizabeth also cleaned her pony's hooves. ...
Det bliver spændene.
Kl. 1748 det er Delta airlines, jeres fly er aflyst på grund af sne i New York. Lyspunkt vi fik så tilbudt billetter over Paris og Alanta med 2 timer længere rejse tid. Vi tog dem. Så er alt vel ? Nyheder TV2 kl.1800, regeringen kan ødelægge alt, ...
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