Category: Europe

We are staying in Helsingør tonight. By the time we arrive, it is very late in the afternoon and, while it looks as if it could rain at any moment, it is not actually raining. Read More …

The rain lets up just as we reach Frederiksborg Slot, a grand Renaissance palace surrounded by a moat and vast gardens. We should have gone inside. Spring in Denmark 

We stop at Jægersprise Slot in part because it looks charming, in part because it is reputed to have Zealand’s largest collection of rhododendrons, and mostly because one of my books made it sound like Read More …

Liselund Slot is described in my guidebook as “a diminutive palace” which is “set in a large park and its whitewashed walls are reflected in the waters of a small lake.” Furthermore, it explains that Read More …

Møn Klint is the reason most people come to this lovely island and it is what has drawn us here as well.In a perfect world I would have reserved a tour of the cliffs via Read More …

I want to see Møn’s famous fresco-filled churches by the Elmelunde Master, a 15th century artist responsible for the decoration inside a number of churches about whom almost nothing is known. We come first to Read More …

Nysted , situated on the southern coast, is a bit out of our way, but distances are short and it sounds like a charming place, so we make a detour. Nysted is a lovely historic Read More …

The rain is followed by beautiful blue skies and bright sunshine.Like Fuglse, the North Ulslev church also sits on a bit of a knoll near the farm town of the same name. It gleams brilliantly Read More …

Today I am in search of my mother’s father’s past. My grandfather on my mother’s side has always been sort of an unknown to me – he emigrated from Denmark, he was much older than Read More …

We are staying in Bandholm tonight, at the Bandholm Hotel – a bed and breakfast within view of the sea. There is just enough time before dinner to check out the immediate neighborhood. To one Read More …