the shell house

we only stayed for a while in this city somewhere in Denmark, the city is dead but the shell house is interesting and unique, have you ever seen a house like this?

Frederiksborg Castle

Frederiksborg Castle - from Helsingor (o with the slash) looking over Sweden, after looking around the city we went to see the famous castle in Hillerod, the main attraction for the tourists in Hillerod, Denmark (o with a slash) the majestic castle was built between 16th to 17th century now a national museum, is the magnificent Frederiksborg Slot.

after walking around in the garden of the castle we went to visit Fredericksborg castle, it was raining and cold that time, but still it's worth it, then we leave the place on the same day going to Kalundborg, we took the ferry from there and went to Aarhus.

have a majestic weekend everyone!

"Great Waves" of Skagen

Denmark's Northcape - " Kattegat meets Skagerrak " means Baltic sea meets North sea.

i posted about the sand dunes in Skagen before a few months ago, and i said i will post about the city, but let me share to you first the "Great Waves" of Skagen or Denmark ;)

have you ever been to a Northcape? i did! at the very high up in the North of Denmark at the very end of Skagen we went there to see this "Great Waves". I know it's not like the northernmost point of Europe, the North Cape 71° 10' 21'' N, our friends from Köln with his 13 year old daughter and his wife from Sweden went there and some friends, they just sent us a post card from there, they made it. That would be easy for us to go there because Sweden is not so far from Norway ;)

ok back to Skagen, it was so cold that day, windy but we are lucky the sun shines and the sky is clear, the water is so cold with the temperature of 10°C and not good for swimming of course, and it's also not good for swimmers because of the dangerous current of the waves, on our way back to the parking lot we saw this cute little yellow bird ;)

maybe someday... i will see the North Cape... someday... ;)

*the photo of me with the church is also part of our trip there, they call it "tilsandede kirke" or church buried in the sand thousands of years ago, it reminds me of the church tower in Bicol, Philippines.

Skagen, Denmark

Skagen - one of the best and enjoyable trip we had in Denmark. Skagen is before, known as a small village and the people live in fishing. This sand dunes is about 90 meter high, and i made it climbing up there with my bare foot, you can see in the photo above i am holding my flip-flops it was easier to climb.

On the other side of the sand dunes is an ocean but be aware of this ocean because it is "tückisch" ( treacherous)!



whew! it's not easy climbing up this mountain of sand dunes but it's worth it, when i finally went to the top of it, i said.. "yes! i made it"! ;)




the lighthouse or tower is also an attraction to the tourists, half of the light tower is almost buried in the sand dunes.






We took a photo of this sheep seems like it telling us "beee! beee!!" ;) look at my back, can you see the sand dunes? did we look like we enjoyed the trip? oh, i think we did! hehe ;)

next entry i will share to you guys the city of Skagen.

Denmark trip June, 2008

Note: this entry is lifted from my old blog in friendster also titled flip-flops and backpack.




13.06.2008 Yes! we are ready! for 10 days holidays in Denmark. First we went to Northern German State of Schleswig- Holstein to see the historical towns of Mölln, Ratzeburg and Lübeck. We spend one night in Grömitz at the Balticsea. Next morning we went to Puttgarden on the Island of Fehmarn to catch the Scandlines Ferry to Roedby in Denmark. We crossed some islands and bridges of the Danish islands to go to the island of Moen. In this island they have a spectacular limestone cliffs, about 100 m high, it was beautiful! Going up there through the natural forest was really wunderbar!









Then we went to Copenhagen the capital of Denmark, 1/3 of the population living there. We stayed on a nice camping with restaurants, hot shower, (with high-tech toilettes) and because Denmark is not cheap! we cooked our own food ( like we did many times after). Next day started with heavy rain and we took the railway to the center. The rest of the day was very cold and windy but sunny, even I got sunburnt!There's so much to see in Copenhagen. We just saw some high lights like, Town hall, historical fountain, churches, castles of the King and Queen Amalienborg. At the waterfront we saw the symbol of Copenhagen, the famous "Little Mermaid". Busloads of tourists from all over the world and us there. At the historical and old port of Nyhavn i eat my first Poelser, Lecker! typical Danish food. It's a hot- dog with different sauces, sweet pickles and crispy onions. Walking to the Royal gardens with a castle, we came back near the railway station. Of course we didn't forget to visit Tivoli, it was fun! with many rides and attractions, but we didn't see the illumination of Tivoli, because in summer it's always daylight there.













to be continued...