New question: Anyone spending their fall vacation in Denmark?
 

We're going in the first two week of September and are looking forward to a few days at Århus Fest Week and Legoland, as well as other touristy locations. Anyone else?

Also looking forward to trip reports from those enjoying the "beautiful" summer in Denmark!

I returned from our week in Denmark last Monday but I haven't gotten a trip report together yet. Too busy fiddling with the pictures we took with our new digital camera.

We were very lucky with the weather. Our first day or two it stayed cold and cloudy, as it has been for much of the summer, but then it brightened up considerably.

We stayed in a charming bed and breakfast in Tisvilde, on the northern coast of Sjaelland. A thatch-roofed farmhouse with beautiful rooms and an art gallery attached, just the kind of place I had hoped to find. The web site is: www.haarlandsgaard.dk

We really enjoyed the Viking museum in Roskilde. The tour guide was a student of Viking archeology who was extremely informative about the excavation of ships from the bottom of the fjord and the conclusions drawn from this work about life in the time of the Vikings. Also at the museum site my family went on a traditional sailing vessel requiring everyone to help with the oars and the sail. We witnessed a demonstration of Viking martial arts, very good--humored and interesting, although I believe that was a special activity just for last week.

In Copenhagen, we had a great time on the hop-on/off canal boat. This was made more enjoyable by beautiful weather.

On our last day, we drove around trying to use up the prepaid gas in our rental car and ended up driving down narrow lanes between farmers' fields south of Koge. Ended up at a restaurant at what felt like the end of the road to nowhere, with white linen, lovely food, and a table on a terrace overlooking the sea (or at least Sweden). This was the Restaurant Skovfogedstedet, with its own website (in Danish though): www.skovfogedstedet.dk

These are just a few of the highlights that come to mind now. Denmark is a place I never really thought about visiting, and we just went because my daughter was spending the summer in a study program there. Very glad we got there, had a great time, and now I have many images (both mental and electronic) to contemplate.

Have a great trip (and I hope you like boiled potatoes)!

Why, I do love boiled potatoes (scrapping Atkins for the trip), but only with that great dark brown gravy!

I've never been, but am arriving in copenhagen on Sept. 20. Unfortunately, it is the day after Tivoli closes, sigh. We plan 3 days in Copenhagen, then 2 week car rental through Denmark-Norway. Eventually ending a swing across N. Europe in St. Petersburg on Oct. 20.

Can't wait to leave, but am anxious about the high prices in Scandanavia. In the past we have been to Ireland and New Zealand, experienced great value in the USD...not true for this trip.

Last Chance for Christiana? Said to be Copenhagen's second most visited tourist site, the "free city" of Christiana's existence is threatened. Originally an abandoned army base in the heart of Copenhagen occupying valuable waterside grounds, the area was squatted in the 1970s by "hippies," who established their own "free state", which has been largely recongized by Copenhagen officials. Police rarely enter except in major crime cases, and to periodically uproot the many cannabis sellers lining "Pusher Street". Christiana has evloved into an amazing urban-living experience; residents have been their own dwellings and engage in a panoply of commercial activities. One of the restaurants is highly rated. Anyway, walking around this huge area is a mind-boggling experience. One of the few 70s commune-type places still extant, Christiana's future is threated by the government plans to sell off the prime real estate and give the squatters the boot. This could happen by January, though in the past threats of eviction resulted in huge protests; there is a lot of local support. A main bone of contention is the open cannabis selling, from booths showcasing the product. In the pasts year police have stormed this area. Anyway, a unique thing to glimpse (not the drugs, but the whole community) if in Copenhagen.