Cultured

So this is the final post for our short study tour, and I think it might be useful to show you a map of where we went. Please note that we covered all of these distances in a few short hours or less, back and forth. Denmark is small.

Copenhagen to Vejle to Rødding to Ribe to Odense to Kolding to Jelling to Copenhagen

We spent the first night in Ribe, the oldest town in Denmark. And when I say oldest I also mean the quietest. It was tiny and quaint but nada was going on.
In Odense, we went to he H.C. Anderson Museum. He wrote The Princess and the Pea, The Ugly Duckling, and The Little Mermaid.

Humble abode where H.C. was born

Ok to be honest one of the best parts of this day was this:

We also toured the Koldinghus, yet another castle. It was built in he middle of the 13th century, burned down in 1808, and was then rebuilt. Typical.

Random: there was Beatles exhibit

Then we went bowling, but I will spare myself the embarrassment and not post pictures of the knee hight socks and bowling show ensemble I was rocking, or the fact that my score was half of my friends. I blame Somersby cider. 


Our final stop was in Jelling, which is pretty important historically. It is where the first King of Denmark, Gorm the Old, is buried. The Jelling Stones, the main attraction of the small town, were carved in the 10th century and mark the start of Christianity in Denmark.

FUN FACT: Bluetooth, the program thing that allows you to talk on your cell phone hands free was invented by a Dane and is named after Harold Bluetooth, the son of Gorm the Old and the one who commissioned the Jelling Stones. 

This symbol is the H and B (for Harold Bluetooth) in the Old Viking alphabet. 

Another FUN FACT: Vikings really did like to go around and kill people, then take their land. It was fun. After they became Christians, they did not want to give up this past time, so many became Crusaders. 


And then we were back. Back to "real" life in Copenhagen.