With Car or Coach

A visit to Aars starts just outside the town at the Borremose fortress. Around here, almost everything started.

You could sail to the fortress. You could travel from here to the rest of the world.

After our visit to the Borremose Fortress, we taker a short drive to be able to visit Aars by foot. I will tell you about the past, about art and about present day Aars.

The artist Per Kirkeby has left his mark on Aars. As Aars is best experienced by foot, we will walk a distance of approximately 3 km from the Museum of Contemporary Art to Vesthimmerland's museum. I will make sure you see Per Kirkeby's buildings and get a hang of what life in Aars is like. The museums provide insight into much of the area's development. From one of Denmark's largest finds, the Gundestrup cauldron to the most common pieces of our time.

Visit beautiful Hindsholm and the impressive and wild Fyns Hoved.

The nature here is unique, you will not find like it anywhere in Denmark.

Visit the small and picturesque villages, and learn about the people, who lived there, how they built their communities and hear the rather scary legends about pirates, ghosts and evil noblemen. See the impressive Scheelenborg Castle and hear about Marsk Stig who assasinated a danish king. See one of the few road crucifixes in lutheran Denmark and hear about the lady who put it there. Drive on to Korshavn, where we have time for a walk on the narrow path to Fyns Hoved where we can enjoy a spectacular view.

On the way back you will hear about the scary funeral of Marsk Stig, you will drive along the coast past Hverringe and finish back in Kerteminde.

A very beautiful – and also exciting – tour.

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.

Coach tour to the Southwest of Zealand where the Hvide genus originates from. We will visit Sorø Kloster church, Bjernede church, Fjenneslev church, Skt. Bendt's church in Ringsted and Haraldsted church

The Hvide family plays a very important role in Denmark's history, churches and monasteries. The most important source for knowledge about the Hvide is Saxo's the Chronicle of Denmark.

I will tell you about Skjalm Hvide, Marsk Stig and Asser Og. Valdemar becomes king, Esbern Snare a powerful great man and Absalon archbishop. Together, the three were a very powerful group. 

Sorø Kloster church is the Hvide family's burrial church. Bishop Absalon is buried in the church.

Bjernede Church is the only round church on Zealand. Bjernede Church was built by Sune Ebbesen, whose father was the uncle of Bishop Absalon.

We can order lunch or dinner for you if you wish. A very good coach tour as an activity for groups.

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.

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.

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.