With Car or Coach

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.

Starting from Rønne, a guided tour on the southern part of Bornholm offers beautiful nature and several sights to visit along the way.I guide your tour to Arnager Klak with the very special green sand and clay which you aught see that.From here we drive to the geographical border zone at Klintebakken at Åkirkeby, where we visit Bornholm's branch of Lund Cathedral, the church Åkirke in Åkirkeby. I'll give you the story about the church.

The tour goes on to the Echo Valley, where we shall have a go at testing the echo. In good weather we also visit Kongemindet the highest place of Bornholm's forest Almindingen, where I tell the story of Kongemindet.Bornholm also has a bison forest which I will show you and where we might be lucky to encounter the European bison, which has been very close to extinction.In Southeast Bornholm we visit the ring castle at Rispebjerg, the geographical hub of Øster Sømarken, from which the precise time named Gudhjem Time is calculated.
Finally we go to Dueodde with the fine sand, installations from World War II and more Cold War installations and from Dueodde the tour goes to Snogebæk, Balka and Nexø back to Rønne.A lovely day in the southern part of Bornholm with interesting places that I look forward to showing you.

Enjoy some of Funes beautiful nature and scenery on a guided coach tour following the romance of Elvira Madigan and Count Sixten Sparre.

Love and death in the Romantic era. The circus princess Elvira Madigan and Count Sixten Sparre's dramatic love story came to an end in July 1889, caused by their deaths in Nørreskoven, a wood on the small island of Tåsinge.

The couple had checked into Hotel Svendborg as "the bridal couple Count and Countess Sparre" after they had fled "the profane mob" in Sweden. The 19th century social norms made their alliance impossible, and because they were both drowning in debt, they decided to leave the town of Svendborg and sail to the island of Tåsinge.

We'll drive through the street Grønnegade, where the couple stayed in a pension. In the town Bregninge, we'll go up the church tower, just like the couple did on one of their excursions.

Their visit to the church tower gives us an idea of what really happened. On Thursday, the 18th of July 1889, they left their lodgings in Troense with a picnic basket, as they were going on a longer excursion. On the 22nd of July the wife of the local raspberry picker Markus Clausen found the bodies of Elvira and Sixten in the wood Nørreskoven. I'll show you where they were found.

The last stop on the tour is Landet Cemetery, where a merciful brother allowed the couple to be buried side by side, provided a wall was built between the two graves.

The coach tour starts from Aarhus to Billund, the home town of the Lego company, Legoland and Lego House. Learn the faschinating history of the Lego company's humble beginnings in a carpenters shop in Billund to the world covering company we now know.

Legoland offers lots of entertainment for kids of all ages with the Legoland Museum, the park and when food is a request. If you prefer a visit in the Lego House to Legoland that is no problem.

On the way to Legoland I will tell you the fascinating history of LEGO which is at play with the Danish words "leg godt" meaning have fun playing.

Lego is the fascinating story of producing wooden toys in humble beginnings in a carpenters shop in the 1930's Billund to the worldwide multinational Lego company of today with its Star Wars toys.

On our way we will pass some of Lego's factories in Billund, which has become the Lego-town of Denmark with almost everybody working at the Lego factories.

It is no problem to start this tour from other cities than Aarhus just let us know in advance.

Would you like a guided tour to an area of utmost importance in medieval Denmark?

A tour to the castle ruins of Vordingborg…

Take a trip with me to Vordingborg and visit the Vordingborg Castle Grounds where you can still see parts of the outer walls and ascend the remaining "Goose Tower". I give you the story of both Viking Age Vordingborg and the three Valdemarian kings of the Danish Middle Ages, who built the castles from where they ruled the area and the country. Perhaps you would like to see the splendid old church too?

If you wish, I would be happy to meet you and your coach in Copenhagen or elsewhere and be your guide on the way to Vordingborg. This give me an opportunity to tell you more about the things we are going to see. We can make a stop at the newly recovered Ring Fort Vikingeborgen at Køge, this being the fifth known to this day. Or, if you prefer, we can make a detour to the town of Næstved and take a stroll through its lovely old centre.

For you who are particularly interested in the history of Denmark and the Vikings tihs is the perfect tour.

We can meet in Roskilde or we can go from Copenhagen. We will go west to Roskilde and drive along the fiord, where affluent foragers lived 7000 years ago. From here we shall continue on a detour south of Roskilde to the area of Lejre and make stops at burial mounds from the Danish prehistory covering the Neolithic Period, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, all in all from 6000 to 1200 years ago. I tell you about the things we see, as we drive through the picturesque landscape of the region.

We shall focus on the Vikings and will make stops at the Halls of Lejre and the "skibssætninger", which are stone rows in the shape of ships. Put together, these features make up substantial evidence that important men and women lived and died here.

Coming back to Roskilde, the city that was made the country's first capital by the Vikings, we shall visit the Viking Ship Museum. The museum houses the wrecks of the five ships discovered at the bottom of the fiord in 1957. The ships were deliberately sunk in the late 11th century in order to stop the advance of a hostile Norwegian fleet, and they have now given us some of our most precise knowledge of ship-building and sailing a thousand years ago. Apart from the various Viking craft workshops that are run at the museum grounds there is a shipyard staffed by boat builders who construct new ships using the ancient techniques.

It was in Roskilde that King Harold Bluetooth had the first Christian church of Zealand built in 980 and subsequently claimed to have christened the Danes. That was probably not quite true, as it was customary in the Viking Age to carry the hammer-pendant of the old Norse god Thor. I will tell you about the Viking mythology as well as the use of runes.

Our final destination of the tour will be Roskilde Cathedral, the latest descendant of King Harold's wooden church. The first bricks of the present building were laid in 1170 during the era of Bishop Absalon, but in the course of time it has been gradually extended by still more chapels in order to make space for the marble sarcophagies of the Danish kings and queens. The earliest is that of Queen Margrethe I, who died in 1412, fifteen years after she had united the giant Nordic realm. 

The sequence may be altered because of service hours in the cathedral.

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.