General

Scandinavian Design Seating

Tracking Down the Past

Places in Denmark Mentioned in My Dad’s Stories of His Life

• Tracking Down the Past: the Cottage
• Tracking Down the Past: The Wharf at Siø

Iceland

• Flying into Scandinavia over Iceland
• Flying Over Iceland’s Amazing Turquoise River

Denmark

General

Wanderlust: My First Foreign Trip (Denmark, 1965)

• The Red and White Danish Flag
• Smørrebørd, the Famous Open-Faced Sandwiches of Denmark
• Delicious Memories from Denmark
• Ancient Viking Runes from Denmark
• Nobody Does Orange Like Denmark

Copenhagen

• Fashion Design at the Design Museum
• Old & New Combine in the Copenhagen Main Library
• Street Art in Christiania, the Freetown of Copenhagen

Around Zeeland

• Køge, a Medieval Village Just Outside Copenhagen
• Stevns Klint, Chalk Cliffs and ‘Fish Clay’ that Tells the Story of a World-Wide Disaster
• Kalvhave, an Interesting Meal and Mons Klint
• Time Tripping: Medieval Vordenborg and then Going Further Back into History with the Vikings
• Stop at Helsinge with a Famous Breakfast

Sweden

• The Yellow and Blue of the Swedish Flag
• How to Keep Cool in Sweden’s Tropical Climate

From the coast up towards Göteborg.

• The ferry from Copenhagen to Helsingborg in Sweden, our panicked and overheated arrival in Sweden, followed by a frantic and unfruitful search for a SIM card
• Kullens Fry Lighthouse from 1561
• A lovely evening in Falkenberg, thanks to some lucky old-fashioned booking tricks
• Varberg Fortress from 1650
• My Cousin’s Home on a Lake in Sweden

The Bohuslän Coast of Sweden has tons of tiny towns. As I wrote to my cousin on our upcoming visit to Sweden, “the coastline north of Gothenburg looks like nothing I’ve ever seen before – stunning!” 

• Grundsund
• Fiskebäckskil
• Fjällbacka
• Arriving in Grebbestad, the town with Tanum & its petroglyphs nearby
• An Walk in the Golden Hour(s) along Grebbestad’s Waterfront
• Day 2 in Grebbestad (with more Food & Drinks)

Tanum & Petroglyphs

• Tanum, a UNESCO World Heritage Rock Art Centre & Its Petroglyphs
• A 6K Petroglyph Walk Amongst Farmer’s Fields
• The Five Chinese Elements in Sweden

Leaving Sweden

• Our Last Stop: Grönemad with its Tiny Red Vacation Homes
• The Ferry from Sweden to Denmark

Back to Denmark

Skagen

Aalborg

A Large Wooden Warship, the Frigate Jylland in Ebeltoft

Aarhus and Around

• Half-Timbered Brick Buildings in the Recreated Village of Den Gamle By
• Museum of Modern Art in Aarhus and its ‘Rainbow Walk’
• The Sculpture Park (KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad) in Silkeborg

Odense

Copenhagen

The Thorvaldsen Museum of Sculptures , an entry into the world of the neoclassic Danish sculptor