Odense and Arhus

Denmark 2014
P001 Denmark, world's leading 'green' country - wind energy supplying more than 25% of country's electricity consumption. Famous for the bicycle culture, world's...
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P002 ... wind farm off Sprogø in Storebælt (Great Belt) - Storebælt, a strait dividing Denmark between the main islands of Sjælland (Zealand) and Fyn (Funen), the...
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P002a1 ... strait of Øresund or the Sound, separating the Danish island Zealand (Copenhagen at its east shore) from the Swedish southern province of Scania; with...
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P002b ... after crossing Great Belt on the 11 miles long Storebæltsforbindelsen suspension bridge, here we're at Odense, day 3 of our Scandinavia tour......
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P002c Odense, hometown of Hans Christian Andersen; Denmark's third largest city and capital of Funen island located at the heart of the country, named after Odin, the...
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P003 Hans Christian Andersen Museum... exhibitions presenting the life of Andersen, the world he lived in, his distinctive appearance and his mind, with the writer's...
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P005e ... exhibit of fairytale collection with Andersen's handwritten inscriptions, Hans Christian Andersen Museum
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P008 Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) put Denmark on the world map through his fantastical 19th century fairy tales - sculptures in different styles in the old...
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P009 ... unlike the other sculpture, this bust sculpture of Andersen has a dreamy or painful look, don't you think?
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P009a ... after the Odense short visit, on our way crossing the Little Belt waterway to our next tour city...
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P010 Aarhus (Århus), Denmark's second largest city and a main port located on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula; by road, approx 89 miles north of Odense, 116...
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P011 Aarhus, one of the oldest Scandinavian cities founded during the Viking Age, its historical and cultural developments preserved and portrayed at Den Gamle By...
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P012 Den Gamle By (The Old Town), founded in 1909, world's first open-air museum of urban cultural history, a llive image of what life was like in the old Danish...
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P013 ... 75 historical houses originally erected between 1550-1900 from 20 townships all over Denmark recreated and organized into a small old Danish town, with...
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P014h ... 1600-1625 half-timbered building from Aalborg, housing a baker's shop and a distillery...
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P016 ... the old distillery facility...
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P016d ... wood barrels used for aging in the distillery or for hot-soaking in winter?
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P020 ... a baker's home and shop from 1885; bakery selling sugar pretzels and vanilla rings, all pastries baked using historical recipes from the old days before...
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P021 ... the baker's house and its beautiful backyard garden...
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P022g ... the Aarhus Mayor's House, half-timbered renaissance building from 1597, the first historical building recreated in Torvet (Old Town Square), regarded as the...
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