Frilandsmuseet in Lyngby is a part of The National Museum of Denmark. Lyngby is north of Copenhagen (10 minutes by car), and here you’ll find one of the oldest and largest open air museums in the world. The Museum contains over 50 farms, houses, smallholdings and mills from all over Denmark (and some Germany, the old […]
In a previous post, I talked about the forest and fortress Adalsborgen. I love to dress up, especially in historic costumes. So in the spring I made a new viking dress (the red one, the green is from 2013). Me and my friend Therese , whom also enjoy to dress as a viking decided to have a […]
Skagen or as it’s known in english -The Scaw, is Denmark’s northernmost town. Skagen is a very beautiful, little danish town. A typical Skagen house has a red tiled roof with white trimmings, yellow-plastered walls and a white fences. Just like the one on the pisture above. A video I made of Skagen (poor quality) The settlement began […]
The county of Vestfold (south of Oslo) has a long history with vikings. During the viking age (the period from 793 AD to 1066 AD) in Vestfold cities were established and a new civilisation grew strong and stronger. The viking history isn’t just a brutal one, with raids and Conquest as one usually thinks of. They were also great explorers and traders. West […]
Bøkeskogen in Larvik was founded as a landscape protection area in 1980 to preserve one of Norways classic beech forrests. It is also Norways largest beech forest. Bøkeskogen has some places were it looks like something out of the The Lord of the Rings. You almost want to go look for elves. Since 1800th hundreds Bøkeskogen has been a natural gathering […]
I’ve lived in so many (and I mean many) places, both in Denmark and in Norway. One of the places I’ve lived during my childhood was in Melsomvik in Norway. Only 1700 inhabitants live here, so not much to do, except enjoying nature. As a child I believed that the evil knight Kato from Mio, […]
Åsgårdstrand is a small, but very charming town 100 km south of Oslo and by the west coast of the Oslofjord. The town was increasingly known as an important center for artists and painters and since the 1880s a vast number of internationally famous painters has either visited or lived in the town. Painters like […]
The town of Kragerø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. In the days of the sailing ships, Kragerø was one of Norway’s largest post cities. The municipality now includes 495 islands, islets and skerries along with 4,000 leisure houses. Kragerå also has an interesting history, one of the first Africans in Norway […]
Trylleskoven, in English: The Magic Forest, is in Solrød a town south of Copenhagen. It’s called The Magic Forest because if all the weird twist and turns the trees do. Why they grow this way is strange. I didn’t find some of the weirdest looking trees that I remember from a couple of years back. […]
Østensjøvannet is a lake right outside central Oslo, it has a rich wetland vegetation and many bird-watchers gather here to look at all the amazing birds in the area. Not only are there birds and beautiful natyre, up the hillside there’s an old farm Østensjø gård, that dates back all the way to the viking […]