Monday 11 June 2012

Frilandsmuseet

An open air free admission museum that we visited also in Denmark. It's a bunch of relocated olde houses, from the 1600's all the way to one that is from the 1900's, but most of them are from the 1700's. They're all thatched roofs, and a lot of them have courtyards as well. I noticed that no matter what the inhabitants do (farmer, cobbler, weaver etc.), they all have at least some chickens and pigs. Most of them also had a cow, horse or goat though.
It was really dark inside back then, so I can see why they wanted to spend most of their time outdoors. The doors and doorways were super short as well, about half the height of a modern door. The best thing about those houses is the beds looked very cozy, because for one thing they were short small things in large cupboards, and for another each place only had two or three beds which meant for the families with five kids that all five kids would share a bed, mom and dad would get one, and any grandparents still living would get the third.
After the museum we had dinner with some cousins, and when they were giving us a ride home Hillary Clinton made us turn the wrong way and cross a bridge. There was huge police escort: at least 11 motorbikes and a line or two of cars after that; we didn't even see the vehicle they were escorting.

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