Blogs from Denmark, Europe - page 111

Things in Svanholm are still going great. New Years in Copenhagen was just insane! Everyone bought their own fireworks and we all headed out to a big house party in the middle of the city. At 11:00, everyone rushed out onto the street and started shooting them off in every direction. It felt a lot more like Baghdad than downtown Copenhagen. After the New Years, things have returned to normal. We continue to find little jobs here and there, working from 8 until 3 from Monday to Friday. Some of us at Svanholm have cleaned up the 'teenager room' aka Galaxon and we've set up a Wii inside with a TV and some couches. I've become really good friends with the guys who live in Svanholm and we're even tossing around the idea of renting an ... read more

Little behind on the BLOG, we know... but figured it would take this long for anyone actually trying to read every word of it. (Thanks again to those of you who do, and yes, we understand that a lot of you are handling this BLOG the same way we all got through grade-school... look at the pics, read the captions and make up your own story. We still appreciate your interest!) København, Denmark ...an exhaustingly exiting weekend of site-seeing and such. So, after a grueling bus/ferry combo through the night we kicked off our adventure on Saturday as we pulled into town around 5:00 in the morning; walking, napping, sailing, walking, drinking, listening, walking, riding, swinging, walking, eating our way through Copenhagen and sleeping (in shifts) on the bus-ride back, Sunday at midnight. Highlights: - 5:00AM ... read more

Founded in the beginning of the 8th century, Ribe is the oldest existing town in Denmark. At that time the vikings used Ribe as a trading centre before leaving for "sea expeditions". The first Scandinavian church was built here around 860. The town continued to grow and became very important not just for Denmark but much of Scandinavia. Although there was a great fire in 1580, many of Ribe's original medieval houses are still standing. The great cathedral situated in the heart of Ribe can been seen from far away as the landscape surrounding Ribe is very flat, much of it marshland. The cathedral was built in the 13th century. Many famous people was born or lived in Ribe during the centuries. A few days before Christmas my brother Aage and our friends Charlotte and Henriette ... read more

I haven't written in the blog for the last few weeks but the reasoning for that is fairly simple...things haven't really changed all that much. Besides the Christmas festivites here at Svanholm (Christmas trees, small parties, a large Christmas festival - similar to the farmers market back home) things are still the same. I work from 8-3 and learn Danish and hang out here. Then to Copenhagen and Roskilde on the weekends. At the moment it isn't really a nice time to go touring around Europe so I'm having loads of fun just staying here and partying with the Svanholm gang. We spend our weekdays planning for the weekend and I practice my Danish little by little. My understanding of Danish is getting quite decent but speaking is still difficult. Writing Danish...forget it. Give me at ... read more

Tout le monde, It's the start of my third week at Svanholm and fortunately for myself things are going just great! The work is comfortable, I have some great friends at the farm, and the chances of getting that tourist visa are looking better and better. My weekdays are fairly simple, I get up at 7:30, I start work at 8:00, I have lunch in the main kitchen (prepared for us by a small army of cooks) at 12:00 and am off by 3:00. After 3:00 I usually hang out with my friends at Svanholm and play video games or learn Danish. On the weekends we try to go to night clubs in Roskilde or Copenhagen (we went to Copenhagen this past weekend) and it's all worked out just great. I'll be heading to Trina and ... read more