Peter’s Blog

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.

Again out on my 30Km route. Now I’m starting to get familiar with the detour from the 26Km route, knowing where to turn without counting the turns etc. I still think it’s a very nice route and the narrow roads are just fun now.
Speed was very good too, as my average speed over the total of 30.7Km was 30.8Km/h !

Tine and I went out for her 25 minutes without any problems. I’m sure she will finish her running program with 30 minutes this year !

After that I went out on my 6660 meters and did it with an average speed of 5:01 minutes/Km.

Today Tine was feeling better and wanted to run again. She decided that the best idea was to jump into her running program with a week left to get ready to attack the 30 minutes again a week later. I totally agreed as I can’t see any point in forcing oneself to something that might be too much, especially when you do have the opportunity to take it slow and easy - and by that actually enjoy it !
So we did her 23 minutes and I think she was happy with the result.

After that I went for my 5540 meters and as it’s Thursday it’s the day I do speed instead of distance. Today I was allowed a pulse of 160 so the conditions was the same as 2 weeks ago so I was hoping for a speed similar to that but I have to say I was in for a surprise !
While running I could somehow feel that I was going quite faster than I thought I would but I was not sure. When I got home and checked the speed it said an average of 4:39 minutes/Km !

Yet again I went for my new 30.6Km (19 miles) route. The weather was quite a bit colder than last time so I needed to find my long legged bicycle pans and a bicycle jersey with long sleeves again. On the other hand the colder and more cloudy weather was nice for a change and I did not need to use suntan lotion.

I had a great ride and again I have to say that it’s a great and beautiful route. I saw quite a lot of small calfs, foal and lambs too. A little over half way I could see that I have had a rather good speed, so that made me push a bit on the last part of the ride.

I ended up with my best average speed this year with 30.9Km/h (19.2 miles/h). Guess it will be hard for me to top that but if I can stay around the (30Km/h) I will be very happy. As I have said before, I have not been bicycling for quite some years now so I didn’t expect to get around the 30Km/h before next year.