Here’s an interesting point of view from a Norwegian responding to a newspaper report about the reasons for his country coming top of the Happiest Country table. “Norway is only affluent because of gas and oil.” This is a common misunderstanding, also shared by many young Norwegians. That we became affluent because of the oil […]
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That’s Aros, the super modern art gallery in Aarhus, a growing city in Jutland. Terrific though the collections and exhibitions are, they have to work hard to compete with the building itself. The modern building has all of the features you would expect. Nice light, internal vistas and sweeping staircases. A pervading air of Danish
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Right up at the tip of Jutland is an area often overlooked by travellers in their haste to get to Hirshals in order to catch the ferry to Kristiansand, Norway. For a start there’s the bustling town of Skagen, a hospitable place with a nice feel to it. Traffic free and with it’s tourist tat
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We have discovered have we not that one of the noticable features of getting older is the tendency for people to generally ignore you. Not necessarily in a bad or aggressive way. That wouldn’t be too bad. At least you would have been recognised as a sentient human being. No, the way I mean is
Sea, sun, sand and seals. The pointy bit of land out past Skagen is called Grenen. There’s a spit of sand which seems to be a place of pilgrimage for a lot of Danes. It’s here that two seas meet. Grenen marks the junction between the strait of Skagerrak (part of the North Sea) and
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Just love Wiltshire. Stayed with our friend Ronnie for a couple of nights and took the opportunity to visit a couple of National Trust properties. The Courts Garden – was a repeat visit and we were just as impressed as on ourlast exploration of the large, but still human sized, mainly formal garden. The garden
Arriving back from along stay in France can be very disconcerting. Moving from a super quiet environment to the go go atmosphere of southern UK is a shock to the system. So after a week of bravely coping we decide that the peace and quiet of Somerset is just what the medical staff at the
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In typical fashion when we were looking for somewhere in France to break the journey back to the Limousine, we did a lot of research, looked at the maps, decided on a destination. Then went somewhere else. What a stroke of luck then the we have finished up in Bourg-de’Oisans in the French Rhone Alps
To be continued. No wifi Enough of this we said. Time we were getting home. So we thought we’d have a look at the Italian Lakes on the way. Rather than going to the most crowded and popular we plumped for Lake Iseo.
I don’t do this very often: but let me quote the words of a local guide to Udine which captures the characteristics of the city. “Reserved and elegant but also cheerful and friendly: this is Udine, the city that is tinged with the colours of Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770), the famous Venetian painter who left works
