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The Five-Countries Holiday - Part Four

Category: Ramblings | Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:19 am

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The Lion Park, or Givskud Zoo is a safari park where one can drive around or walk about. There are lots of different animals and small activities for children, but it's not quite a play park. We like to visit it and look at the inhabitants there.

South-American ostriches, I can't remember what they are called now:



North-American buffaloes:



The Africans had a field day:







People are so silly sometimes. A couple with a trolley had put a banana in a bag and left it open. Too good to miss said Mother Monkey and promptly stole the banana:



Mommys and babies look pretty much the same, wheter monkeys or humans:



The lemurs didn't want to do much. It was too hot:



The red panda bear is the cutest critter:



Flamingos:



This sign really says it all:



And here they are, some of them:



We also had a look at the camels. I think they wanted to be petted, but we didn't:



Then we went to find somewhere to sleep, and found a very nice, small site near a river. The Danish are very proud of their rivers. Most have their names on signs by the road, and half the time it's more like a creek than a river. This one, "The King's River", was less than 10 meters wide, and that includes the wetlands on both banks. Not very impressive for a Norwegian:



The following day we went to Ribe to go on a tidal safari and to check the old medieval town out.

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The Five-Countries Holiday - Part Three

Category: Ramblings | Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:35 am

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Oh, Legoland, wonderful play park with the most fantastic creations in Lego bricks, a very nicely planted-up ground and the mini-trees and other plants in the mini-town. It's so nice to visit, and this year we were lucky enough to pick a day without the big crowds.



Some of the wonderful scenes:









I thought I had photographed Mount Rushmore, but I obviously haven't. Sitting Bull is very big and the pirates are life-size.

This donkey was in Legoredo town, a western-inspired collection of shops and restaurants.



There are lots of roundabouts, roller coasters and stuff. I had to go with the girls in three of them and came home with three "Scream"-by-Munch-lookalike photos. *lol* This was't so bad, though:



Some of the planting arrangements:







There's lots of water everywhere, all nicely laid out and planted up:









From the tower, an overview:







The miniature Lego towns and landscapes. The details are amazing. I put some of these photos in "My Garden". They're a bit bigger than these:



The fountain is working:



Amalienborg, the Danish Queen's castle:





Swedish mid-summer celebrations:



Scottish scenery:





There's also a very pretty aquarium, a rather new feature. I found these upside-down jelly fish very interesting.



And this sea anemone too:



I obviously had too much fun to photograph much. Oh, me, what am I like. Anyway, our next stop was at a safari park called Billund Zoo, where we could drive among giraffes, zebras and even lions.

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The Five-Countries Holiday - Part Two

Category: Ramblings | Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:54 am

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Denmark is our favourite holiday country for camping. The grounds are big, the country is small and there's never far to go for anything.

We started by going to Grenen, the northenmost point of Denmark:



Transport. It was a bit far to walk:



Lighthouse. We went up there:



The view from the lighthouse:



Skagen town in the distance:



A house from Skagen. It's a lovely, little town:



Some Danish landscape. Denmark is flat:







Here's the beach by our favourite camping site, Hov Camping in Jylland:



We went swimming a couple of times:



When in Denmark there are a few things we like to do every time we visit. The rainforest in Randers is one:



It's made up by three domes like this, one for Africa, one for Asia and one for South America:



It's so nice inside:



Lots of animals roam free in there. The girls are studying some big toads:



Some of the inhabitants in the rain forest:







The little monkeys were everywhere, and the girls loved them:









Snakes and butterflies had their own department. Most snakes were locked in, fortunately:











We had to eat too:



Next stop was Legoland.


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The Five-Countries Holiday - Part One

Category: Ramblings | Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:27 am

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That's what we'll be calling this year's holiday. It's been a long one, but we've had such fun. :) Here are some photos. We started, of course, here in Norway.

A mountain crossing called Valdresflya. I kept thinking about Toni and the Texans when we drove passed all the snow. Notice the tall stakes by the side of the road. They need them in winter to navigate by when they plow the road:



Our first stop was by this lovely beach. We went swimming, and the water wasn't too cold even though it's a river/lake:



Then the zoo and play park in Kristiansand:







Captain Sabeltann's pirate ship:



We got to see the celebrations in Cardamom Town:



Tobias in the tower:



Aunt Sofie, the strictest aunt in the world:



The Zoo's got lots of different animals but each species' grounds are so big we won't always get to see them. We did see the lions:



Cardamom Town is very pretty, and there are plant arrangements all over the place:



Then we went to an outdoor museum while waiting for the boat to Denmark. There's a mini-town showing what the old town in Kristiansand looked like:





There's also a collection of houses rescued from the old town:



A farm from Telemark somewhere:



This is how the hay was dried before silage bales and hay driers were invented:



And here's the ferry we took to Denmark. Three and a half hours to cross, and we ate most of the time:



So the next entry will be about Denmark and Denmark only.


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