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Posted Jan 12, 2018, 7:27 PM
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Kicking it Viking style..
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Copenhagen
Posts: 7,085
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Freki presents Bornholm Island
Far far away in the Baltic Sea lies a small Danish island, twice the size of Nantucket, with a population of only 40.000.
While fairly unknown to most of the world it is a popular vacation destination for Germans, Danes and Swedes as it offers a nice mix of sandy beaches, calm nature and cozy villages.
To Danes it's popular for 2 main reasons - the first being as it has bedrock ( the rest of Denmark is old coral reef without bedrock ) and the second is that it's the island in the kingdom that get's the most sunshine.
Other famous things are the castle ruins, trolls, the rocking stone, smoked herring and bisons..
Anyways enough chatter, here's some pictures from me and my gf's trip there doing the summer of 2017
Bornholm (1) by FREKI, on Flickr
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"Echo valley" - named such due to the echo from the cliff
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Klemmensker
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Hammershus ruins ( anno 1200 )
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Hammeren lighthouse
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Natives
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Opal lakes
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Sandvig
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Allinge
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Rønne - the "capital"
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Østerlars "round church" ( anno 1150 )
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Næs strand
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Gudhjem
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The iconic chimneys are Herring smokeries
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Bølshavn
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Svaneke
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Almindingen forest
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The "rocking stone" - a 35ton heavy rock that.. well rocks..
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Nexø
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Dueodde
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Balka Strand
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Dueodde Strand
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Almindingen forest
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European bison - recently reintroduced to the wild here
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Lilleborg castle ruins ( anno 1190 )
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Hammered ( northern part of the island )
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The navy keeping the Russians at bay
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Freeroaming cows chilling on the beach
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Dueodde lighthouse
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Dueodde strand
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Thanks all folks!
Bornholm (146) by FREKI, on Flickr
Last edited by FREKI; Jan 12, 2018 at 7:49 PM.
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