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Finally have ferries booked and off to Denmark in September. I have two major objectives, Ferde to collect a new toy and then search out the elusive Elephant beer.
So any recommended to do's while there ?
I thought his name was Frede
Brengen & Ophalen
Well, Ferde is better than ***!
Jeff
I'm afraid I'm recovering from the BeoVirus.
Wow, a profanity filter that works on French! Replace Ferde with M***. Heh.
And it has other meanings as well...
Skagen, was a fishing harbour, now arts, tourist and good restaurants, a little north of there Denmarks most northern point, Grenen, go for sun up or down.
Aalborg, night on the town in Jomfru Anne gade (Street), Friday or Saturday are the best.
Aarhus, Den Gamle By (the old city), museum with very old city and farm houses, in the season working like they did some hundred years ago. Aarhus has more interesting things to do, depending on interest, check the internet sites.
Collecting Vintage B&O is not a hobby, its a lifestyle.
Are you getting off the ferry in Esbjerg?
If so, I know where you can buy both bottles and cans of Elephant beer
You're welcome to visit me (living 8 km from the habour) for a cup of coffee and a good B&O talk.
Vinyl records, cassettes, open reel, valve amplifiers and film photography.
Leslie:I thought his name was Frede
Typo ! Must have been having a double dutch moment .... :-)
Søren Hammer: If so, I know where you can buy both bottles and cans of Elephant beer You're welcome to visit me (living 8 km from the habour) for a cup of coffee and a good B&O talk.
Fantastic, I will be arriving in Esbjerg by ferry and would be delighted to meet for coffee. Will pm you the details.
Søren Mexico: Aalborg, night on the town in Jomfru Anne gade (Street), Friday or Saturday are the best.
Indeed.. Jomfru Anne gade is a fun place to be... But wait until the university starts.. :-) :-)
Søren Mexico:Skagen, was a fishing harbour, now arts, tourist and good restaurants, a little north of there Denmarks most northern point, Grenen, go for sun up or down.
Absolutely, two Beoworlders on the Struer trip recommended we go there ... and so we did !
Skagen is a delightful town - apartently a bit of a royal sailing playground, and certainly we saw lots of yatching types there.
I did not find Elephant beer there (see the Beer thread in lifestyle for discussions on elephant and other beers ), but we did discover this interesting ritual in Skagen shown below.
The best part of Skagen was visiting the various homes of famous Danish artists, the northern most tip where the two seas meet (at 4:30am brrrrrrrrr !!), Drachmann's Grav near by, and the remnants of Hitler's Atlantic wall.
We also visited an authentic Viking village south of where Soren lives , the Legoland at Billund which is north of him and well worth it for satisfying the inner child.
Aarhus with is large multi-story public art gallery where we were lucky enough to encounter a street fair (where I got my only cup of real coffee in Denmark ) and an associated open air conference.
To be honest we found Copenhagen a disappointment compared to the rest of Denmark -- to be fair, this may have been because it was a long weekend religious holiday when we were there and the town felt deserted on the Sunday and Monday but the Saturday in the sunshine with all the boats in the canals celebrating the start of summer was great. The Thorvaldsens museum celebrating his life and amazing collection of statues and his personnel collection of Italian art was amazing. Christiania was interesting but a little sad - exposing as it did human frailties.
And of course you simply must go to Struer to visit the B&O Museum.
Bon Voyage !!
Sorry no smiley for a ferry so here you are ....
BeoNut since '75
Thanks for all the idea's
elephant:Sorry no smiley for a ferry so here you are ....
After the pleasure hundreds of short haul, long wait long security checks behind people who just cannot believe you can not carry.......
Going by boat with the capacity to take anything you want up to a metric ton - a joy. I
elephant:And of course you simply must go to Struer to visit the B&O Museum.
But of course.
valve1: elephant:Sorry no smiley for a ferry so here you are .... After the pleasure hundreds of short haul, long wait long security checks behind people who just cannot believe you can not carry....... Going by boat with the capacity to take anything you want up to a metric ton - a joy.
Going by boat with the capacity to take anything you want up to a metric ton - a joy.
Oh I agree about avoid planes, I was just saying Keith's icons lack trains, boats, buses, trams and cars :-)
I much prefer train travel these days ... but I still aim to keep my case down to ~10kg not a tonne