Jesperhus Blomsterpark, Denmark - 15th June 2011
By: fam-united
Hi Mum,
today we drove to Jesperhus Blomsterpark - a flower theme park, which is three km south of Nykøbing Mors. It is Scandinavias largest themepark of this kind. They opened this park in 1966. It is divided in three parts: the flower park, a jungle park and an amusement park, which is rather small, but with some really good attractions for kids - and adults - and us toyvoyagers, of course.
In the jungle park I came really close to these turtles.
Wow - a large crocodile. You see, that I kept a safe distance to it.
I prefer such lovely orchids instead.
Everywhere in Denmark - at least at the places I've seen - you can see the Dannebrog - the Danish flag. I love to see it in front of the blue sky and white clouds.
Here we are in the Japanese Garden - a good place for some group photos.
Then we walked down to Hans Christian Andersen's house - ok, it's a bit small, so I guess it wasn't really his house, but they say, it looked like this. And I'm sure, that he never had so many flowers on the wall and roof of his house.
He lived from April 2, 1805 to August 4, 1875 and was a Danish author, fairy tale writer and poet noted for his children's stories. Maybe you know one of these: "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", and "The Ugly Duckling". My host told me, that we will find some places in this park, that show some of his fairy tales. So I will take a look.
Even here I saw the Dannebrog.
Here is a flower bed for \"The Princess and the Pea\"
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Posted Jul 5, 2011, 6:28 pm
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Nørre Vorupør, Denmark - 16th June 2011
By: fam-united
Today we had a lazy day at home. The weather wasn't that brilliant, so we read, played games and just hang around.
For dinner we had some scambled eggs with sweet corn and onions.
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Posted Jul 6, 2011, 1:55 pm
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Nørre Vorupør, Denmark - 17th June 2011
By: fam-united
It wasn't really a big surprise, that our hosts told us in the morning, that we would stay at home again. Petra's knee hurts too much. She limps from her bed to a chair and on the terrace and has her leg rest on another chair. We didn't want to only hang around, so we searched to house for some activity. We found a nice jigsaw puzzle from James Hamilton with 1000 pieces, which Petra had taken with her on the trip. Here you can see, that we did it rather well, but I can tell you, that we needed hours for it.
While we worked at the puzzle, Petra went outside to play football (English or German) with her family. She came back limping and sat down on the balcony.
Later I read a bit more in the "Eclipse" book - it's English, so I understood everything. Petra helped to hold the book open.
Although she was limping, she didn't want to miss the sunset at the beach. This time we watched it at the beginning of the pier.
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Posted Jul 6, 2011, 2:17 pm
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Nørre Vorupør, Denmark - 18th June 2011
By: fam-united
Another lazy day at the house, because Petra can't walk more than from her bed to the chair and back.
So here is only a photo of our dinner - a slice of bread, cooked ham and cheese.
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Posted Jul 6, 2011, 2:35 pm
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Nørre Vorupør, Denmark - 19th June 2011
By: fam-united
Back at Nørre Vorupør again we decided to go to Klochs spisested, a restaurant. My hosts' family was invited by friends to have dinner with them there and we were allowed to join them, too.
I had 26 Fiskefilet............................................................75,-
2 stk. med pommes frites, remoulade og citron
2 Fischfilets mit Pommes Frites, Remoulade und Zitrone
It was yummy
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Posted Jul 7, 2011, 2:58 pm
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Klitmøller, Denmark - 20th June 2011
By: fam-united
And we had a last stop at Klitmøller to take a look at the kite surfers and surfers. Okay, you're right. It seems like a bird in the sky, but it was a kite surfer.
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Posted Jul 11, 2011, 7:30 pm
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Rubjerg Knude, Denmark - 21st June 2011
By: fam-united
After visiting the most spectacular part of the land of light - that's how they call the northmost tip of Jutland too, we decided to stop at the lighthouse located at Rubjerg Knude. Petra and her family were there in 2008. You need to see an old photo, so you can understand, what happens here.
(photo by one of my host's sons)
On the first photo you can see the dune wandering and the sand flying, too. It hurt in my face
Although this wikipedia theme is written in German, the photos are interesting for you and me, so you should take a look here.
Rubjerg Knude is a wandering sand dune, the highest point of the steep coast of Lønstrup with a length of about 1900 metresand width of about 400 metres. We stood nearly at the same place like in 2008 and you see, that the shape of the sand dune changed a lot. The entrance of the lighthouse was nearly full of sand. Some people crawled into it, because they could have a rest from the strong wind outside, but it was somehow creepy. It had been so windy there, that Petra and I had to hide behind her son's back to take this photo. Even if you can't see the sand flying - we had sand everywhere, even in my ears and in my eyes - and in Petra's camera, too.
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Posted Jul 16, 2011, 5:00 pm
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Fur Island, Denmark - 22nd June 2011
By: fam-united
Today we decided to a place, where my hosts had been three years ago already. This time they wanted to explore other parts of this little island called Fur (alternative older spelling Fuur). It is a small Danish island in the Limfjord at the northern tip of the Salling peninsula. Fur has under 900 inhabitants. The island covers an area of 22 km².
The crossing of the Fursund with the ferry takes only 3/4 minutes.
Then we drove on by car. The weather wasn't that great, but we found a nice place near the beach and we decided to walk a little.
I hope, you can see the little path, which we followed down to the beach. The erosion gorges, Langstedhuller, were formed after the Ice Age. The area is one of the most beautiful nature areas on Fur. In early spring, the slopes are covered by cowslips and nodding pasqueflowers.
This flower is really lovely. I would have liked to pick it for you, but Petra said, that it wouldn't make it well until it reaches you. You I just want to send this photo.
The whole beach was covered with shells. Do you see me?
Then we drove to Stendal Høje, which is the hightest point of the island (75 m above sea level). From here you have a view of most of the island and the northern part of Salling and Livø, the coast Himmerlandskysten and Mors. Stendal Høje are also called “Bette Jenses Hyw” stemming from a mound situated further to the north. The island’s largest active moler pit is located towards the north beneath “Stendal Høje”.
At last we visited the church. For us it seems like a part of Greece in Denmark. Here comes some information about the church: The church Fuur Kirke is called Sankt Mortens Kirke, and it was erected in 1126 by three nobles Gutchi, Atti, and Agli together with the vicar Bo. It is extemely rare that written sources are so precise about the origin. The present appearance of the church is of a later date. On the western side of the tower you will find a carved face at 13 metres’ height in memory of a builder who fell down.
In Denmark there are flags on the graveyards and also on many houses. They run it through daytime and hoist the flag to half-mast, if there is a funeral.
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Posted Aug 1, 2011, 8:22 am
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Nørre Vorupør, Denmark - 22nd June 2011
By: fam-united
Back at our house we only wanted one thing: Jump into the water! Petra, can you please leave the camera in the living room? We don't want to be photographed now.
Emmh, Petra. Please don't take photos here! We want to relax a bit now.
Seems, she doesn't hear us. Maybe we should look at her and not at the water, but it is just too exciting to be allowed to jump into the water today. We can't turn around to face her. So, Petra, even if we don't look at you and seem to talk to the water - we mean you, who should put down the camera now.
Okay, okay! One last photo, but then this is it!
Ahh, was that fun! Sorry, Mum, that we all didn't want photos of us in the water. But afterwards Petra was really thankful, because we splashed around a lot and maybe her camera would be broken now. Because she stayed calm, we allowed her to take two photos of us relaxing in the sun, after we all had been under the shower.
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Posted Aug 1, 2011, 2:02 pm
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