Best Western Hotel Knudsens Gaard Odense

... with an extensive and beautiful 16th century altarpiece. Then I saw the place of H.C Andersons childhood. He was very poor and lived in a tiny house shared with five other families. The nice lady allowed me to go in for free because I had run out of Danish Krona. I am meeting Australians everywhere.<br>

OK so there's only 8.3 Danish krone to the pound &amp; and we had 3 kids so we always new Denmark was going to be punishingly expensive. However it was worth going, most museums have either cheap entry or low price for kids. Just returned from the Viking open air village in Ribe (Jutland) &amp; the buried ship museum at Ladby in Funen (Fyn). Also the viking ship museum in Roskilde (Sealand).All places were very ...

... some bad parenting during our visit to Copenhagen. Bruce and I could not resist visiting the Ice Hotel&#8217;s "Ice Bar" and dragged the boys along with us. We were worried they might get "carded" at the door but they charmed their way past the bouncer. They were actually welcome to visit and enjoyed a cocktail of pineapple juice while grooving to the dance music inside. For those of you that haven&#8217;t patronized an ...

... in the afternoon and met our Danish relatives for the evening. They brough us to tsee the big ships that were in the harbour - big wooden ships! Then we went to diner at an authentic danish restaurant where Luc and I had Svenborg Casserole (pork, bacon, and turkey in a paprika sauce) and roasted potattoes-- definitely one of the best meals we have ever had! Never felt so full in my life!<br><br>After diner we went to a cafe for drinks and desert! We headed home shortly after to pack!!

Our first overnight train trip was quite an adventure. We boarded the train in Brussels to Cologne, Germany and then transferred to the train that was taking us overnight to Odense, Denmark. The cabin could only be described as snug and not surprisingly, the kids loved it. We spent the first 5 minutes trying to figure out how we were going to fit all the luggage in, not to mention us! One of our suitcases couldn't fit under the bed or in the ...

...to Denmark.<br>The original plan was to drive all the way to Copenhagen and stay on a campsite there. But since it rained and rained and rained, we decided to stop earlier and have a good rest before heading to Copenhagen and meeting up with Laurents &amp; Iris at the airport there. We were lucky and found a really nice campsite right at the beach with a view of the Storebaelt Bridge :-)<br>

... up revolves around a story about brothers seeking the hand of the Princess - 2 (or 3, I can't remember) of the brothers were very smart and intellectual and the father gave them each a horse to get to the princess.  The other brother was kind of the black sheep of the family and the father gave him a donkey to travel; of course this last brother got the girl in the end.  I'm rather embarrassed by the rendition of the story I just gave and can't remember the name :(<br><br>After ...

... integrated&#8221; school that we visited the typically developing children and those with special needs were said to be educated together; however, as we walked around we did not see any children with special needs until we went to their separate wing. The idea of inclusion at this school was to provide the opportunity for visibility of one another and the opportunity to interact. <br><br>These observations among others really challenged the ...

... s right in the centre. In front of the Town H*ll there w*s some kind of * flower m*rket *nd right from there the pedestri*n zone w*s beginning. M*in pedestri*n zone street w*s - mir*culously - Vesterg*de. But so th*t there is no confusion *s to where I w*s, there w*s * l*rge H*ns Christi*n Andersen st*tue in this p*rticul*r Vesterg*de which w*s impossible to overlook. So, Vesterg*de in order to know we *re in Denm*rk, but *lso Mr.H.C. so th*t we know we *re in Odense. F*ir enough. And then ...

... sun barely hovering below the horizon for hours. Unfortunately, I couldn't find Pancho or our group the next morning on that huge ship but finally found the car just in time for departure.<br><br>Pancho: Well, that's her story and she's sticking to it, but as far as I am concerned, she just took off and shacked up on one of those high dollar decks.<br>S<br>We were greeted in Stockholm by Susan Olmert's husband, Peter. <br>Seems that Susan was on her way from the airport ...