Blommenslyst Kro Odense

Hello from Odense, Denmark!

It's our last morning in Denmark! Never again will I visit this beautiful country!

Or at least not on this tour!

We had a great show last night (no one fell on stage!) and a great day overall. We started off the morning by giving public speeches. As many of you are aware, a huge aspect of Up With People is self-growth ...

... some fellow Uppies and we were able to learn a lot about the acclaimed Danish author and poet, Hans Christian Anderson.

Have you heard of "The Little Mermaid"? How about "Thumbelina"? "The Little Match Girl"? What about "The Ugly Duckling"?

Yes! All works of H.C. Anderson.

We went around Odense and saw the many statues that are dedicated to this great author and were even fortunate to visit his childhood home!

We also window shopped, ate ...

... a white trailblazer with overly-stuffed suitcases... and ME! will be pulling into the Luebke driveway.

Get excited! I know I am :)

Oh! AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE! I probably won't be able to eat turkey and mashed potatoes tomorrow so I give everyone the option to go COMPLETELY WILD and eat for me.

And not to feel bad about it.

And to not step on the scale the next day.

:)

... 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.

OK so there's only 8.3 Danish krone to the pound & 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) & the buried ship museum at Ladby in Funen (Fyn). Also the viking ship museum in Roskilde (Sealand).All places were very ...

... in.

We also had a great time in Copenhagen. We did a tour of the city and visited the Little Mermaid statue and the Gerion fountain. We were really impressed by how clean Copenhagen is. Not too many cities can say that their harbour is clean enough to have pools in it for people to swim in. They were really neat to see and maybe next time the weather will co-operate and we’ll be able to use them! Something ...

... cooking fresh bread on a stick over an open fire. The castle also has great mazes, a tree top walk, museums with different vehicles from the past, and a fantastic playground. The castle is still inhabited by descendants of the original family but allow the public to tour parts of the castle.

We loved playing a game of Fodboldgolf. Soccer-golf is just as it sounds, golf but kicking a soccer ball instead of a club and ...

...to Denmark.
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 & 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 :-)

... apodo que lo tiene más que ganado. Odense es una ciudad bonita, tranquila y cuna de Hans Christian Andersen, lo cual hace obligado la visita a su museo y a las estatuas florales que hay por los alrededores. La estatua más famosa de sus cuentos, la encontramos en Copenhague, una de las ciudades más bonitas del mundo. Tiene ese encanto especial que es necesario para poder hacer dicha ...

... even in the s*me book. To be *ble to live like th*t *nd to just w*lk on when I get on my feet w*s the best w*y to rele*se every conceiv*ble stress *nd reg*in ment*l *nd emotion*l b*l*nce. And then, by *n undefined impulse, I stood up *nd went on through Kongens H*ve. I closed the circle, found myself on Vesterg*de by Rådhus *g*in, *nd continued tow*rds the S*nkt Alb*ni Kirke *nd Nederg*de, * pretty, colourful, cobbled street which with its le*ning, h*lf-timbered houses, the w*y I s*w it ...