Blogs from Ribe, Ribe, Region Syddanmark, Denmark, Europe

Monday 30th August 2010 Not a bank holiday here and now we are in low season fairly quiet and cheaper to camp ! Having said that Denmark is quite expensive for normal day to day things. Today beautiful blue skies and a fresh breeze as we head up the coast towards Esbjerg. Half an hour and twenty miles brings us to Ribe founded 1300 years ago and home to the Vikinge Center. This living museum is designed to give the visitor an impression of how the local population lived in the year 980 AD. Following a fantastic day here we drove north to Esbjerg and set up at a site just north of the town. Just about the best equipped site we have ever stayed at with a playground to die for, heated swimming pool and ... read more

This past weekend I traveled to Ribe, Denmark, the country's oldest town. Because Denmark was never reached by the Roman Empire, no cities popped up until the small regional harbor was established at Ribe on the Western Coast of Jutland, Denmark in 704 AD. It took four hours to drive across the island of Zealand, Funen and then to the mainland peninsula of Jutland to Ribe. To get there we traversed the second largest suspension bridge in the world. Very cool. One of the small islands connecting the bridge to the two larger islands used to be the asylum for "hypersexual" women. Up until the later 20th century, women were not seen as sexual beings in Denmark and so any woman who seemed prone to wanton desires was removed from society and relocated to this tiny ... read more