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On April 21st I took a long drive to the northern shores of my island Zealand and visited a few places - we start with Gilleleje a cozy fishing village 45min north of Copenhagen

GILLELEJE

The northernmost point on the island of Zealand and a very cozy traditional habour village



The northernmost point - Sweden in the horrizon


A lighthouse


The habour


The old town..














"Skyline"





Cozy streets, nice old houses and a nice beach but a bit dead, atleast in April
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Small danish towns like that are cozy.
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great photos

so Colorful, so beautiful, such great looking houses.

I always wanted Scandinavia so badly. Norway, Denmark, and Sweden just seem incredible!
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Certainly looks like a ver nice place when the weather is good, which seems to be represented in those pix.
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Old Posted Apr 22, 2008, 3:12 PM
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Rågeleje

Moving west of Gilleleje we get to a larger 'summer home' area Rågeleje with a new lovely beach promonade and some funky terrain



The route west of Gilleleje is very scenic with the ocean on your right and nice homes and hills on your left


Ta da!!! Rågeleje downtown!!!


Yeah.. it's not exactly the urban feel people come here for, but the promonade is nice




And the beach is lovely




The air is warm, but the water is still a tad too cold for me


Rotten old shack blocking my view


Moving a bit west we get to a nice hilly area


With a nice path to the ocean


Perfect kite weather it seems


The shore..


Some dude out fishing..


More shore..


And time to head back to the car..


All in all a very lovely place - I especially enjoyed the hilly area - it seemed perfect for a picnic

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i can definitely live in a place like that. kinda reminds me of the new england coast.
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i can definitely live in a place like that. kinda reminds me of the new england coast.
Perfect reason to change their name

Anyway I like it up there but I don't think I could live there - I'm an apartment and city person..

But a 'summer house' up there would be nice - it's only a 45-55min drive from where I live, so perfect for the weekends
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Tisvildeleje

Moving even further west along the coast we come to another small coastal town Tisvildeleje


The town itself isn't anything special - pretty much just summer homes for Copehageners, but the beach is sweet!






Wooded houses are fairly common up here - a nice example


As high as posible seems to be the goal




Old traditional house for this part of the kingdom..


Spring - finally!


Empty parking lot - won't stay like that for long anymore..


huge white bird tracks?


End of the road



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awesome. I love the beach shots, I had no idea the water was so blue over there. Keep them coming!
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awesome. I love the beach shots, I had no idea the water was so blue over there. Keep them coming!
Thanks - plenty of pics comming!

We have very shallow waters with lots of sand - it's not "tropical green" but it does the trick

Sadly we get lots of algees along the summer because of those conditions - but at this time of year it's perfect - except 10C too cold
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Anyway I like it up there but I don't think I could live there - I'm an apartment and city person..

But a 'summer house' up there would be nice - it's only a 45-55min drive from where I live, so perfect for the weekends
for me, the great thing living in a place like that is that there is a big city very close by.

btw, the second beach is just as nice.
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Looks a bit boring - maybe because I'm so used to these kinds of landscapes.

Great pics nonetheless, and Nordre Själland looks cosy.
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i don't understand?
Doesn't 'New Denmark' have a much nicer ring to it

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for me, the great thing living in a place like that is that there is a big city very close by.
We are all different like that...

I work with many who lives in small rural towns and have more than an hour to work - it's certainly not for me, but if they want it like that then by all means..

A problem for me with those places is that we do have fairly long and dark winters here - we rarely get any snow so instead there's just darkness and brow colours everywhere - even with the sea closeby I would imagin such places becomming really depressing - espcially when almost half the houses up there are vacation houses only used in the summer half of the year...
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Very hygge!
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Took a trip up there again today to finish covering the area - so here's some more pics from up north..



Frederiksværk

One of the "larger" cities up north located between the Roskilde Fjord and Arresø Lake - a very suburban and sprawly place


The old city moat still around...








The ever present pedestrian street..












I think it's a storck taking off...




And that's about that...

All in all I guess it's an okay place for suburbanites - but the center offers very little - there is also a habour and all the usual marts and all that, but certainly nothing special..

What I did like about the place was that is was located inside a wood - sadly most of the trees haven't gotten their leafs yet, but I can imagin it being nice in the summer..


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Just awesome man, Scandinavia is definitely near the top of my travel list. I could probably live there too.
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To add to that. I don't really know the reason why I think I could live there, it's just that every time I look at these threads I get a warm, cozy feeling about the region.

It's likely I'm going to London in the fall, if I can I'm going to try and make a trip to Denmark to find out if my feelings of the place are reality. I have a friend that's planning on going to Norway sometime anyway, maybe I'll go with him.
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Don't go anywhere near Denmark/south Sweden in the winter though - they are officially the most depressing places on earth by then.


Frederiksvärk's moat makes the place look really nice, actually.
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lovely shots right out of a movie scene. is it usually that sunny? looking forward to the next round.
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