Frydendal Kro & Hotel
Travel Blogs from Augustenborg
Summer Retreat!
We decided to take the advice of Annette (cousin in Germany) and stopover in a fishing village they like to visit in the summer, but it is now autumn and somewhat cooler.
Trying to find accommandation was an adventure ... everything is shut up for the oncoming winter months, but the faithful GPS came in handy. Can you believe we are the only guests in the hotel!
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Staying with the lovely Schoubyes
... br> Given the whole family was together, we decided to take the opportunity to celebrate some of the recent birthdays. The birthdays were for Erica, Alexandra, Daniel, Mum, Nana (long distance), and Jen – which left Lynne, Dad, and Kai to organise. The celebrations consisted of a lovely afternoon in the apartment Mum, Dad, and Lynne were renting, with the birthday girls and boy, Lynne, Dad, and Vanessa and Michael (unfortunately because of timing Kai ...
Bumming around.....Literally
... my head that I wanted to take a swim in the North Sea, so off I went.
Halfway there and you lose sight of the horizon towards the sides and the water. It is dead flat. You get an understanding how the storm surges can be so devastating here. When I got to the waters edge and looked back, I could only just make out the cars, so I'm guessing it was more that a K. I was going to just swim in my jocks, but when I looked around there wasn't anybody insight, so I stripped down and had ...
Charming accomodations
... Little fruit stands offered household produce on the honor system-with a small box for payment. Roses and holyhooks blossem everywhere. Today the weather was cold and grey and windy. How do roses grow so beaufifully in this climate? There must be some sunny days. From the windows of the bus I can see bales of hay covered in plastic, windmills (both old and modern) small farms with small herds of cows, sheep and geese. An aside, both the train and ferry had quiet rooms- ...
Troense, rural Denmark
... to 40 km/hr winds and threatening rain. Instead we visited Valdemars Slot (not to be confused with Lord Voldemort of Harry Potter fame), some old castles, a boat museum, an interesting pub in Svendborg, and drove around some of the countryside which is beautiful with the ever present sea on all sides. Good friends tell me that the Jutland peninsula is the best part of Denmark so future trips should perhaps focus ...