Plaudereien aus dem Nähkästchen
It’s the first day starting with sunshine – good for visiting two world culture heritage places: the Jerónimos Monastery (pt. Mosteiro dos Jeronimos) and the tower of Belém (pt. Torre des Belém). Both buildings had survived the big earthquake of 1755. Nevertheless the fortified lighthouse is only a replica build in 1846 as the original was destroyed by Napoleon’s invasion.
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After some shopping a visit to the old castle San Jorge is due which looms over our flat only 200 m airline 90 meters above us, around 900 meter to walk.
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The day starts again with rain, really heavy rain. So what should we do? Visit the ozeanium, of course, as we are very fond of aquariums (therefore we visit each year in Denmark the ocean museum in Esbjerg)!
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Having enjoyed Malta so much during last year’s autumn vacation we chose this year to explore Lisbon. So many friends have told gorgous travel stories about this city. And what would be better to enchant the children with geography and history than travelling to a place with so much touchable history?
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This night the clock was changed from summer time to winter time and I love to have another hour of sleep.
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Here in Lillebaelt there are so many pretty villages and so much to discover, i.e. the old fortification of the planned city Fredericia which was founded by Frederick III in 1650. Today the fortification together with the moat is a wonderful parc to roam, the old cannons which brought death in former times are now eyecatchers and lookouts.
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We would call it a castle but with an elegant understatement the Danish just call ist Koldinghus. It was erected in 1268 and for seven hundred years it was frontier post, a residence for kings and queens, a governmental seat. The western wing was build by Christian I. If he felled his decision in favour of a Morovian settlement in Christiansfeld when he was sitting in his 57m long knights’ hall with the tall gothic windows?
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When we were in Christiansfeld a couple of days ago we saw this litte toy museum that is only open on some days in August until it is closed forever. Today was such a rare opening day and we took the chance to dive into history with the children.
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When the danish king Christian VII, who was at the same time the Duke of Schleswig, visited the village Zeist in the Netherlands in 1768, he was impressed by the artisans of the Moravian Church, of their diligence and their skill. He was so impressed that he allowed them 3 years later to settle in Schleswig. On the 1st April of 1773 the foundation of the first house and therefore the city was laid. Grateful the settlers named their new city Christiansfeld. – And as impressed as the danish king was 250 years ago, todays visitors of this historc place are also – at least we were.
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Ribe – a pretty little town in the heart of Denmark that we have liked since we first saw it 8 years ago. The last years we mainly visited the old viking village with the children where you can dive into history. But this year we acutally visited the town itself.
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