DENMARK | by Freki

[FREKI]

Hillerød

Desided to go visit my favorite castle 'Frederiksborg Castle' in the city of Hillerød today


There are main roads going there, but the sideroads are more fun


With 30.000 people Hillerød isn't exactly the largest of cities - and as usual in Denmark it's very sprawly
















The ever present pedestrian shopping street


Pretty dead at 9am








The city's shopping center "The Castle Arcade"




Cars are usually allowed to bring goods to the shops before opening hours




The City Hall.... I think




Frederiksborg Castle in the horizon












Entering the Castle Gardens




The castle


The old baroque garden




The old Royal bath house


The castle and city


Getting closer..


Closer....


Almost there..


And viola - Frederiksborg Castle


Alternative entrence


Main entrence


Harry Potter.. is that you?


And that would all for this time..

[10101000]

Wow, the water is so blue there.

[FREKI]

Fredensborg

Not far from Hillerød we find the small town of Fredensborg where the Royal Family spends much of their time


Not much of a town, barely have any stores, but it does have some nice houses..












I think this is an old storage building turned house...








Monument stone - these can be found everywhere around Denmark - the tradition dates back to the Vikings Rune stones


Fredensborg Castle - currently the home to the Crown Prince and Princess and their kids












One of the very few places in the Kingdom where you will find armed guards




The castle is protected by my old regiment the Royal Guards


The backside


A patch trough the large Castle park..


And that's all for my drive yesterday - new pics will come soon

[JManc]

nice pics! have you explored much of denmark? do you take road trips on a daily basis? is denmark really yours?

[FREKI]

^Denmark is mine - well one 5,4th million is

I have seen most of Denmark, mostly as a kid and in my time of service, but it's not that large a country, so that goes for most people around here...

Daily road trips no, but all the places so far here is between 30 and 60min away from where I live by car, so in terms of time it's not much more than when I take a walk around Copenhagen taking pics

[RafflesCity]

The pics of that castle are simply amazing!

A splendid piece of architecture with nice grounds, and excellent weather for pictures too!

[staff]

Frederiksborg is stunning!

[FREKI]

Dragør

Right next to Copenhagen Airport you find a charming little village that has managed to keep the authentic feel


Not much of a skyline..




I hope you like the colour yellow - you are about to get a huge dose of it


Taking back the streets




The habour




The ever present pedestrian shopping street






















Old well










Not yellow - how dare they!




Strange tower at the border to normal suburbia


Out by the coast..




Sweden on the horizon




Beach hotel..


And that was all for this time... stay tuned

[FREKI]

I've been a bit lazy lately with covering anything outside of Copenhagen, for that you have my apologies - I will get my ass in gear one of the days..

Until then here's some pics of Køge from last years spring


Køge

At the southern tip of urban Copenhagen you'll find the old city of Køge


Køge today is two things, it's the historic old town.. and the sprawly suburbs..


We start off in the suburbs








Older suburban style


Getting closer


Cha-ching...




The towns iconic watertower


The border to the old town


The old towns mainstreet with some of Denmark's oldest houses














Køge Square - the largest medival square left in Denmark














The ever present pedestrian shopping street




More than 400 years old and still going strong

[LAsam]

First of all, thank you so much for posting all these photos from around Denmark. The landscape looks completely tranquil, and the towns are wonderfully quaint. I do have a question for you though... I have never seen the style of roof as seen in the photo below. It looks fairly common through Denmark. Is that some kind of covering they put on the tiles to weatherproof it? Are the crossed wooden sticks on the top functional, or purely there for design. What's the story behind this?

[FREKI]

Originally Posted by LAsam

First of all, thank you so much for posting all these photos from around Denmark. The landscape looks completely tranquil, and the towns are wonderfully quaint.

Thanks mate!

Originally Posted by LAsam

I do have a question for you though... I have never seen the style of roof as seen in the photo below. It looks fairly common through Denmark. Is that some kind of covering they put on the tiles to weatherproof it?

Nope, well it does look it in this case, but usually there's no tiles or any other tricks, just pure conpressed straws..

There are ofcause exceptions like it looks in this case..

Originally Posted by LAsam

Are the crossed wooden sticks on the top functional, or purely there for design.

In that pictures case it looks like it's there for design.. but I do believe there is some functional use or that there used to be in the old days...

The straws needs to be bend and remaind waterproof on the top, so I'm guessing the sticks are used to keep pressure and such..

Originally Posted by LAsam

What's the story behind this?

Thatched roofs are an old tradition in Denmark that dates 1000s of years back.. ( Denmark never had caves so people lived in wooden huts with staw roofs..

In the age of the Vikings tared wood was mostly used for roofs, but as we cut down most of our forrests thatched roofs became the cheaper and better alternative...

These days a thatched roof is much more expensive than a tiled roof, but it's still pretty common... and almost a must with certain types or tudor houses..

More info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatching

[gilpel]

Everythings is so clean ......

[FREKI]

Dyrehaven

I went for a walk in the woods today.. thought I might share a few pics..

The "woods" in qustion is 'Dyrehaven' ( "Animal Garden" ) and old Royal hunting ground opened to the public and among the favorite places for Copenhagen'ers to spend a sunday picknic or simular..

The park is als home to 'Bakken' the world's oldest amusement park - pics of that can be found in my 'Wonderful Copenhagen" thread..



Here we go..








The area is litterily packed with woodland critters and to avoid starvation in the winter there are feeding stations around the forrest for them




Enemy sighted 12o'clock... ready to fire!


We've been comprimised - pull back pull back!


Sh*t, we're surrounded!


We need airsupport ASAP!




Another feeding station..








And finally 'Peter Liebs' a well known restaurant placed inside the forrest



That's it for this time, sorry it wasn't urban

[kanhawk]

What a great tour of Denmark. I congratulate you on finding such bright sunny days to take your pictures.

[FREKI]

Furesøen

Went to take some picks of the fall colours today - turned that I was a little too early and most was still green, but I had a nice time anyway

I went to the Furesøen area just north of Copenhagen, it's a large lake surrounded by forrest ( and suburbia ) within easy access of the the city


Great weather today






Time to enter the woods




The cute little fellow was chillin' on the road










Getting close to the lake










Narrow parth




Following the stream to the lake


And there we are..






Time to head back to civilization




Cute little cow














And that's all folks..

[PHX31]

Beautiful woods/countryside and cities/towns.

I love that castle... looking forward to more pictures.

[FREKI]

Vallø Storskov

As snow is rare here and Denmark suddenly got it's share of it I thought I'd venture out and show those damn Norwegians who's boss..

Sadly when I finally got "out there" the snow coverage was rather dissapointing, but hey snow is snow


Vallø Storskov ( forrest ) is located about 5km from Herfølge and roughly 50km south of Copenhagen


The area is pretty rural


I effing love driving in the snow - summer tires only makes it more fun - takes me back to my army days


Fields of snow - the dream of any respectable Colombian druglord!


Small farm


Look at that snowdept - I'm guessing 18m atleast!


Entering the woods - I'm not even alone..


I'm guessing this is the caretakers house..


Big foot.... biiiiig foooot... where are yoouuuu?




Oh look... a tree....


-insert Bush related joke here-


The weather was great 1C and calm..


Should have brought my running shoes..


Yes you guessed it - more trees and moresnow..








End of the forrest


Heading back to the car


And that was that...



Yeah not the most exiting today... I know, but hey it's snow.. and it's in Denmark.. and well.. ehmm... bye!

[FREKI]

Skjoldnæsholm

Weather wasn't at it's best today, but so what, here's a couple pics from the area around Skjoldnæsholm in central Zealand

The area is very representative of inland Zealand with soft rolling hills, small lakes, streams, lush fields and forests..










































And that's it for this time.. stay tuned

[ShadowMaster]

This is a splendid thread. Like I said, nothing but accolades for Freki, top tier work. I'm loving your Danish threads, from the big city Copenhagen to the smaller towns to the country side. Excellent work.

Maybe one day you can expand your boundaries into Skane.

[FREKI]

Originally Posted by ShadowMaster

This is a splendid thread. Like I said, nothing but accolades for Freki, top tier work. I'm loving your Danish threads, from the big city Copenhagen to the smaller towns to the country side. Excellent work.

Glad you like it mate

Originally Posted by ShadowMaster

Maybe one day you can expand your boundaries into Skane.

Southern Sweden is deffinetly planned, but how much and where I don't know just yet..

A visit to Malmö is 99% sure but how much else we'll have to see as I really want to show some other Danish islands than just my own Zealand for a change..


If you like Sweden then there's some Stockholm pics I took last year here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=155085