Saturday, June 18, 2011
Viking ships and Roskilde aero club
To meet our Australian friends Cris and Ros, we bombed into Roskilde near Copenhagen in Denmark. The club held a season opening flag raising ceremony and we had the chance to meet the local pilots.
We had read about a Danish castle with a historic kitchen garden restaurant in an Australian newspaper over winter so the four of us flew to the grass strip near it to attend lunch. When we landed, while waiting for a taxi, two american classic cars rolled up to the airfield as part of the birthday celebrations of a local. They insisted upon driving out onto the airstrip to photograph the cast with our plane! Why not? The castle, Dragholt, is a lovely place, very simple natural fresh food. Wandering around the gardens and snoozing under a tree completed the afternoon.
Roskilde is the original capital of Denmark and the vast Fjord to the north of town has been the scene of much viking action in the past. The old kings of Denmark are buried in huge elaborate marble tombs in this cathedral;
Copenhagen! Boo ya!
With with Cris and Ros we visited the viking ship museum where traditional methods and materials are used to recreate and restore boats from hundreds of years ago. Several have been retrieved from the bottom of the Fjord.
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