With Car or Coach

Ellen Marsvin was the mother of Kirsten Munk who officially was king Christian IV's mistress. On a trip to Ellen Marsvin's estate in Nørlund, we will visit Nørlund Castle, where I will reveal whether we have really had robbers around here.

I will explain how the estate and the area around Nørlund have developed through time until now. To get the best experiens and understanding of Nørlund estate we make a visit to Nørlund sawmill as well. Here we will look at the significance of the sawmill and the estate and the impact on the development of the area.

I will spice up the visit with stories about the locals and about the community that has lived on the estate as well as its employees. Including the significance the big world has had on the Nørlund estate.

The trip is told based on my own experiences as I was born in this area.

The trip starts at McDonalds near Haverslev. We go to Nørlund Castle, Nørlund sawmill and to Ladelund before heading back to McDonalds in Haverslev.

The tour focusing on food and the good stories is a guided bus tour starting in Vejle, from where we drive towards Jelling. We can of course start somewhere else according to your choice.

We visit a traditional old grocery store which is now also a museum. If you are into nostalgia, be sure to make a few purchases at the counter. It's hard not to.

We carry on to the beautiful Nørup Church, an old medieval church restored to its present day's unique look with a Russian style onion dome, which is very unusual for a Danish church.

From Nørup church we go to the UNESCO World Heritage site at Jelling. See the large runic stone where king Harald Bluetooth in the year 965 claimed that he made the Danes Christian. The runic stone is said to hold the birth certificate of Denmark as a nation.

We end our morning with a delicious Viking lunch in one of Jelling's nice cafes, known for its locally produced, high quality food and drink. We might be able to listen a story by the proprietor while having lunch. 

After lunch you will have time to enjoy the historic experience centre Kongernes Jelling, Royal Jelling, before we head back to Vejle.

Beautiful round tour on the sunny island of Bornholm to the most beautiful places.

We drive along the coastal road north around the island and all the way to Svaneke. The most beautiful drive with sea view and a visit to the 3 picturesque towns of Allinge, Gudhjem and Svaneke.

The 3 towns are charming and perfect for a stroll through the beautiful and pleasant streets. On the way to the north of Bornholm we visit the Hammershus castle ruin and the new welcome center. I reveal the castle's secrets through history till today.

Between Allinge and Gudhjem you have an opportunity to visit the Art Museum in Rø or hike to the cliffs Helligdomsklipperne. After a detour to the island's largest Round Church in Østerlars I suggest a visit to the "Baltic Sea glass" a glassblower between Gudhjem and Svaneke. A visit to a glassblower is a "must" to complete your visit on Bornholm.

Bornholm is known for its smoked herrings and in Allinge you have an opportunity to have lunch at the lokal smoke house. If you have not yet tasted a freshly smoked herring this is the right place to do so.

If your group is larger than 8 Guideservice Denmark has to prebook for lunch so please let us know in advance if you need this service.

One of the things that people associate the most with Denmark is the ferocious Viking warriors familiar from films and fiction. However truth is often stranger than fiction and this tour will show you who the people known as the Vikings really were and what the truth is that lies behind these stories.

On this tour you will join a guide with huge interest in the Vikings who will take you on a journey through the mythology and lifestyle of these fearsome people.

Start at the National Museum in Copenhagen where some of the most important treasures from the Viking Age are preserved. We then head to the reconstructed Viking village in the west of Copenhagen where you will meet re-enactors and learn how the Vikings lived. From the village we will go to explore the monuments at Lejre, the old royal centre for the Danish Vikings, and the location of the hall of Heorot from the poem Beowulf.

We finish the tour by the shores of Roskilde fjord at the Viking Ship Museum before heading back to Copenhagen.

Visit Odense in a different way. We visit and hear about the ghettos of the city – anything from Vollsmose to the ghetto of the wealthy at Langelinie. About the old working areas in Bolbro and the development in the western part of town. About the small “secret” and incredibly beautiful areas Gerthasminde, Dæhnfeldts Villa town, and the housing of the previous glassworks in the city centre, also ghettos which barely any has ever heard of. If interested, it is possible to heave lunch in a café or restaurant in town.

The region of Southern Jutland has, through the history, been a place of conflicts. From the medieval times the Danish king was the duke of the duchy of Slesvig.

So we are in border-areas where wars have been fought and borders have been moved. And also an area where beautiful buildings and marvelous constructions witness the recognition of the importance of being able to survey and defend the area, if necessary.

The town of Fredericia was built as a fortress back in 1650, and the town also played an important role in the first war between Denmark and Germany in the late 1840s. This was when revolutions spread in Europe and a rebellion broke out in the duchies of Slesvig and Holsten, which culminated in Fredericia. We take a brief look at the ramparts and the national monument of the Soldier defending Denmark.

In Kolding; 20 miles away, we have the fantastic castle of Koldinghus, built as a castle on the southern border of Denmark. The border followed the river through Kolding up to 1848. The castle now stands as a renovated ruin, where the walls tell the history of the building and the architects Johannes and Inger Exner have managed with the help of fantastic architecture to preserve the ruin within the castle.

On a coach tour through the beautiful landscape we reach the highest point of the area, Skamlingsbanken. At the altitude of 113 meter there is a beautiful view over the belt between Jutland and Funen. The place has played an important role as a meeting place focusing on Danish national identity.

OPTIONAL: The tour can be extended with ½ hour which will give the opportunity to have a coffee and Danish pastry at the beautifully situated restaurant by Skamlingsbanken.

Another option for extending the tour will demand app. 1½ hours. This will bring us to the beautiful Moravian town of Christiansfeld, where the ceasefire agreement was signed after the war in 1864, and could include a coffee stop to have a coffee and a honey cake. A short walk in this very special, planned town from the late 1700s willl also be included.