Peter’s Blog

On our way to Tivoli we passed city hall with the big Christmas tree in front.

And here we’re passing it again on our way home.

I like taking night pictures, so here is a few more hand held ones….

Once again Tine and I did a trip to Tivoli to see there Christmas decoration. We decided to go again as there were so crowed the last time we went. This time we were more lucky, there wasn’t that many people so we had no trouble walking around, looking in all the small shops and just enjoying everything.

We came a little before it was dark…

But already after 30 minutes or so it was starting to get dark…

And then it was just like night time, even it was only about 4:30pm.

It’s always so pretty at the lake with all the lights !

This time we saw the light show.. It was fine but as we talked about afterwards, we were glad that we didn’t have to stand in line for the show as it wasn’t that spectacular…

Here is one small shop that had a lot of funny stuff. Look how many there are in a very little space. We decide not to count them…..

Inside there were a quite large pixie scenery with mechanical pixies…

Outside again we decided to head home again so here is just a few pics on our way out…

We both had a great time and we are doing it again next year !

As always, just click on the pictures to see them in normal size.
There are more pictures here.

This morning at 5 am we saw a sunrise out of the ordinary. Actually I think I have to say that this was the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen, at least here in Denmark !!!

Here is a couple of shots but I have to say: They dosn’t nearly show how beautiful it was in real !

Remember to click on the pictures to get it in full size !

Ok after almost 4 weeks without riding the bicycle due to rainy weather I finally got a chance for a ride.

As I havn’t driven the bike for a long time I decided to just roll nice and easy. To get even more out of the ride and the nice weather I took my camera with me. The plan was to take some pictures along my 30Km route so you can see why I love riding this route. Unfortunately the nice weather didn’t hold for long. Actually the sun disappeared more or less as I got outside and after 15Km of riding big black clouds were coming way too close so I did a shortcut home before the rain started.

So here are some pictures from the first 15Km of my 30Km route. I wished the sun had been out as pictures always look greater with sun but I hope you can get an idea of how pretty the nature is. There are more pictures here if you’re interested.

Today we went to The Open Air Museum. It’s a museum that takes the visitor back in time, from the 17th century to the early 20th century, to explore how people lived. The many buildings are all original, moved from their site piece by piece to the grounds of the museum. The landscapes are made to match as closely to both the time and area from where the individual buildings are from.

You can use days here, in fact we were here once last year and only managed to see about half of it. Today we wanted to see the rest - and that took us over five hours as time was just flying.

This time I think it was more interesting as we saw buildings and interiors from a wider range of time so there was a lot more difference between them. Last year we mostly saw buildings and interiors from the 17th and 18th century and got kind of tired of seeing more or less the same again and again.

I ended up taking 284 pictures but that includes information signs for the buildings, gardens etc. Here is just a few pictures and I have places 184 pictures on my online photoalbum.

Here is a smallholders’ cottage from Dannemare, build in the 18th century. The occupants of the house lived as farmers and day-labourers. At the end of the 19th century one of the occupants was a fiddler and dyke attendant.

The household of 1890 was : The owner, a divorcee, her daughter, a farm hand and one pensioner. The had two cows, five sheeps, two pigs and some chickens and geese.

Here is a smithy from Ørbæk, build 1846. The smithy was build to be rented out by the pastor in the town Ørbæk. No land belonged to the smithy, but the smith had poultry and a single pig. He was paid in money or kind: grain, pork or poultry.

The household of 1858 was : The blacksmith, his wife and son and a journeyman. They had one pig and some chickens and geese.

Many of the houses had garden with flowers, vegetables, herbs etc. Here is a flower and my wonderful girlfriend.

The museum is in the process of creating a small community from the years 1880 to 1940. Here is the Co-op store from Sundby, build 1907.

And here is the backyard of a Carpenter from Borre. Inside the house electricity was installed.

Here is just a few farm animals from a co-operative farm.