Today was the touring day, where we got to go by bus to the northern part of the island, which, unsurprisingly, is also very pretty. More a rugged, windblown kind of pretty, but still with utterly charming houses all over. Curious spotting on the way: A little trawler-like boat carried the original American flag, the one with the stars in a circle ( Read more... )

Time flies here. Day two has already passed with more lovely landscape, including view from the tallest hill on the island, "Dyret" (the animal - though that's not the origin of the name), a brief visit at the Energy Academy, a stop at a holy wellspring on the beach (!) surrounded by 3000-year-old oak, and other interesting tidbits. quaryn_dk stayed home, ( Read more... )

Getting up early to a very different morning (not raining! Sunny!), we got the earliest breakfast we've had in a long time, and after the morning get-together set out on our bikes at 9:30. I was armed with my camera and 18-125 mm walk-around lens, set at f/8, 18mm and a fixed focus distance for quick snapping of any interesting houses we might ( Read more... )

quaryn_dk and I are doing a one-week stay at Samsø Højskole as our anniversary retreat this year. Today, we packed up (with only a slight bit of panic as some rainclothes had disappeared temporarily) and took the Oddergris down to Odder, followed by a taxi (quaryn_dk trying to not overdo it too early) to the ferry. On the far side, in a slight drizzle, we met ( Read more... )

We haz it! Two nights in a row of the white'n'fluffy frolicking out of the sky! About ten cm each night, and frosty, so it's sticking around. I feel much more christmassy just watching people drive like shitheads ( Read more... )