flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn) (03/24/84)
---- ['o\' == o with a \ through it, pronounced like o umlaut] One of the delightful places in Denmark is Aero\, a little town on the island of Aero\sko\bing that has cobble-stoned streets and houses with thatched roofs that come all the way down to eye level - the sort of place one sees in illustrations in books of fairy tales. You get there by ferry from Fyn, which you get to by ferry from Zeeland, where Copenhagen is. I spent a weekend there a few years ago, and stayed in the tiny Hotel Harmonium, run by a nice couple. The wife does the cooking, and when she does ethnic dishes she dresses up in the appropriate costume to serve dinner to the guests. One can bicycle around the whole island in a few hours. If you drive, you have to make reservations on the Fyn-Aero\sko\bing ferry. Highly recommended if you want to make an excursion from Copenhagen and still stay in Denmark.
mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (04/03/84)
Don't forget Roskilde, which contains the cathedral where Danish royalty
from back to the 12th (?) century have been buried, as well as the Viking
ship museum. Roskilde is about 30 minutes from Copenhagen by train, at
the end of a long, shallow inlet. About 1000 years ago, the Vikings
sank several ships to block the passage against marauders. These were
recently rediscovered and the timbers carefully recovered. In the last
few years, the ships have been painstakingly rebuilt, piece by piece.
I saw them in 1969(?) and a few other times, most recently about 3 years
ago. They grow more complete very slowly!
Near Roskilde there is a reproduction of a prehistoric village, but I
forget the name. There is another "historic walk" just south of Aarhus,
but this takes you through the centuries from prehistoric times until
quite recent times.
If you are going to the Kronborg (Elsinore), don't miss the Louisiana
Museum in the little town of Humlebaek, a few miles south. It's worth
an afternoon trip on its own, both because of the setting and because
of the usual quality of the exhibits (it's a sculpture and art gallery
that rambles through a garden overlooking the sea).
What else? Oh, yes -- if you go to a pub, don't sit at an empty table.
Try for one that is half-full (often there will be 12-person tables with
2 or three couples or threesomes there). You may well strike up a
rewarding conversation and perhaps make a permanent friend.
If it still exists, have a smoit'srebrod (not a smorgasbord) at
Oscar Peterson's (Pedersen??), on one of the causeways that separate
the lakes that surround the downtown area of Copenhagen.
Most of all -- make friends ...
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Martin Taylor
{allegra,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmtken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) (04/05/84)
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Take in Aalborg (in North Jutland) on your way to Norway, or else
as a place to get away from tourist crowds. There's the Akvavit
distillery and (as of 1972 anyway) a pub called Duus down in some
17th century cellar with massive oak tables and chairs.
My K0bnhavn friends never took the deluxe ferry to Malm0--it's too
expensive. The preferred route was the old, cheap boat, to Landskrona,
the voyage undertaken to buy coffee, which for some reason was about
twice as cheap in Sweden, and tax-free cigarettes while en route.
Then you turn around and go back, as there is nothing whatsoever to do
in Landskrona. But it makes for a nice afternoon on the water.
Anyway, these two suggestions should be good ways to meet real Danes,
who in my experience loved hearing foreigners try to cope with their
language. It took me several months before my queries in Danish were
not answered in English. Important note in that regard: All the
Danes I ran into enjoyed speaking English, which they must study for
many years in school. They also must study German, which they not
only resent speaking, but often pretend they can't understand.
It's not memories of WW II so much as German tourists, who usually
speak nothing but German, have become the "ugly Americans" over
there.
Final disclaimer: This info is from 1972, though I hope things
have not changed too much. God, it was idyllic!
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