Blogs from Roskilde, Region Sjælland, Denmark, Europe - page 4

Tout le monde, Mickelsen Family, Sorry that I haven't written in awhile. The last week has been really busy and TONS of fun! I'm currently staying at a large commune about 50km north of Copenhagen and working as a volunteer with the building group. At first I was fairly lonely since Danish people are quite shy and I didn't really understand how the farm functioned. Now that I've been here for a week, I now have some really good friends and I am always free to be as private or as social as I want. Anyway. This weekend I met some of the teenagers who live at Svanholm and they asked me to come to a party they were having above the giant kitchen. I decided to help them out so I was busy with that ... read more

Friends and Family, I arrived in Copenhagen on Tuesday and have been all around the Zealand Area and even into Sweden. I met up with a couple people and travelled around Copenhagen city seeing lots of Palaces, a Fortress, Museums and even a Little Mermaid Statue (very famous due to the Hans Christian Anderson story). I caught a train up to see Fredriksborg Slot (castle), Kronborg Slot (also known as Shakespeare's Hamlet's castle), then the Karnan Tower and the Malmohus castle in Sweden. I didn't make it back over the 7.8 km Oresund bridge joining Sweden and Denmark until late in the day. Today I caught a train to Rosklide and Lejre and visited an archeolgical experimental centre, the famous Rosklide cathedral and the viking museum. The Rosklide cathedral contains the graves of all of the ... read more

We got up in Helsingor with plans to see the Kronborg Slot (where Hamlet's character is suspected to have originated) and ended up with the most surprisingly delicious brunch outside the castle walls at the cafe called Kronen. It was so much food, with sausages, brie, salad, yogurt with muesli, eggs, bacon, an American pancake, fruit, and salami. I recommend it to anyone who ever visits the Kronborg Slot, or is anywhere near Helsingor. Mom appeased me by taking me to the Oresundsakvariet (aquarium). You could pet starfish and they had killer jellyfish there that were tiny white creatures that had rainbow currents flowing through their bodies. I want an aquarium now, just so I can keep some killer jellyfish. We left Helsingor in search of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humblebaek. It was ... read more

Goddag! Nous voici encore une fois, partis a l'aventure... cette fois en terrain plus connu, le Danemark. Pourquoi encore le Danemark? (ca fait quand meme, dans mon cas, 4 fois que j'y mets les pieds) Cette fois, nos amis danois, Karen et Lars se marient!!! Nous allons vous expliquer brievement, pour ceux qui ne seraient pas au courant, qui sont ces célèbres danois... En 1995 (apres etre tombee amoureuse des pays scandinaves lors des jeux olympiques de Lillehammer en Norvege), nous avons accueilli, dans la famille Isabelle-Turpin, une jolie danoise du nom de Karen Hyldegaard-Pedersen. Nous nous sommes revues ensuite plusieurs fois, en Amerique et en Europe. En 2000, son copain, Lars Von Gersdorff, est egalement venu au Canada. Bref, Karen est ma soeur danoise! Nous ayant invite au mariage, ma mere (Lou), son copain (Jean-Pierre), ... read more

In the grand tradition of Eirik the Red and other Viking adventurers, I set sail on the open seas, an oar in hand and a square sail flapping in the wind. On the first lovely day in a while, I made my pilgrimage to Roskilde, a former seat of Danish power in the medieval era, to see the Vikingeskipmuseet (Viking Ship Museum) -- my first real immersion in the Viking theme since I arrived in Denmark. Although there are many Viking museums scattered about Scandinavia, and some with Viking ships, the Roskilde museum is unique in being a center of marine archaeology and for historical reproduction. Nine ships, of various types, were discovered in the Roskilde Fjord and, as much as possible, reconstructed. Apparently these vessels were deliberately sunk to slow an attack on Roskilde ... read more