Visit to the North part of Jutland

On Saturday the 14th we - Anja, Karsten, Noémi, Máté and me - had a trip together around in the North part of Jutland.
This map shows the route, what we had taken.


The first place, which we visited was Fyrkat, which famous for vikings. This area used to populated by them and the archaeologist excavated several houses there and these were rebuilt little bit further. We couldn't see the rebuilt village, because it was closed, but we saw a viking castle!

Then we stopped at Voergad-castle, which goes back renaissance time and it is situated between the town of Asaa and Saeby. I was so suprised because it was like the castle stands in the middle of nothing for me. It was just surrended by woods and fields and - the next surprise - some beautiful peacocks. First we just saw one male, he just ran away after that he became braver and three others joined to him: two females and one male. We just walked around the courtyard of the castle. It was an amazing view the way the lake circled the castle and all ot the scenery - trees, the castle - reflected on the surface of the water. We passed the 'first' bridge - we were welcomed by statues of lions - , then we just arrived to the beautiful gate. We passed it and then we got to the back of the castle. The 'second' bridge led us into a wood, where we found a couple of streams and lots of snowdrops.
Unfortunately we had to leave...

The next stop was Rabjerg Mile, which is a moving dune. Dunes are special formation, which are found only this part of Europe. It was like the mixture of desert and the surface of the moon. I felt myself really free there as I strode in the virgin sand...

Then we passed the town of Skagen, because we didn't have time to look around. We went straight up to Grenen, where the two seas - North-Sea and Baltic-Sea - meet...When we got to the seaside we saw a couple of bunkers, which were built by Germans during the II. Word War. Then we started to walk to the edge of the land...there was an outstanding view, what we had seen.
After we stopped outside of Skagen to see the solitary church - Den Tilsandede Kirke - , which was burried by a standstorm the end of XVIII. century. Nowadays only the tower of the church sticking out used as a navigation mark. The rest of the church - the nave - was demolished at the beginning of the XIX. century. The remain of the churh is surrounded by a wood with lots of pines.

The way back we stopped in Lonstrup, which is a little village and it's protected by breakwaters. Earlier this village was always in danger, because the wild sea ate a little peace of the ground in every year. There was a remain of a house, which is the memento of the cruel times...

Finally we finished our trip in Aalborg. It was really dark, when we arrived and it was raining as well, so we decided to have a warm dinner, instead of look around. It was hard to find a restaurant, and we ended up a sort of SOHO of Aalborg, where just only restaurants, buffets, pubs, coffe shops are.
Originally we wanted to eat something real Danish dish, but we couldn't afford that, so we had a big portion of Kebab with fries and salad instead...
We took almost 800 km that day, so I just couldn't wait to get my bed! And I dreamed with vikings, dunes, seas...ZzZzZzZzZzZ.... : )

PS.: This was my best trip here: colourful, unique, exciting, outstanding.... : )