2017-07-11, Vacation 2017, Day 8: Trelleborg (Zealand, Denmark)

Nothing quite finished on the miniatures front today, so here's the last installment of our trip to Sweden.

On the way home we made a stop at Trelleborg near Slagelse on Zealand. The 'Trellborgs' are a number of circular ramparts/fortifications built as military encampments by Harald Bluetooth in various parts of Denmark and Southern Sweden, probably to demonstrate his unification of the realm of the Danes.

This particular Trelleborg has a nice museum with interesting elements, such as reconstructed clothings.

How a longhouse is supposedly constructed-

A model of the Trelleborg, based on the excavations at hte site.

The actual rampart from afar.

An older reconstruction of a longhouse or mead hall. Notice how the wooden 'pillars' are different from the newer model in the museum.

An outdoor model of the site.

The following pictures are from the actual site.

The following pictures are depicting various aspects of the Trellborg open-air museum.

And thus ended our rather short vacation trip. Had the car not needed a new transmission after the vacation in Catalonia, we might have had a longer visit to Sweden, but money was tight, and the mortgage cannot be postponed.

There will be one more post from the 2017 holidays, as we also visited Lundeborg Iron Age Market after returning home, but that is another story alltogether.

Vacation 2016 - Day 16: Guédelon Castle, Part 14, The Last Photos, and Farewell to France - for this Time Being

After visiting the mill, we took a closer look at the rope-maker's workshop, and that concluded our visit to Guédelon.

We returned to the camping site for supper and a good night's sleep, before setting the course for Denmark and home the next morning.

Our GPS receiver for some reason led us through Paris, so we actually got a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower from a distance (while driving in queue for quite a while).

We had to drive all day and all night to return home the following morning, as we had to pick up Molly from the kennel, but the journey was fairly smooth, and in Northern Germany, the petrol stations are open around the clock (as opposed to the south-eastern Catholic part of the country where they close at midnight), so there was no stress regarding fuel.

I want to return to Guédelon to see the completed castle in a couple of years, and France will probably be a regular destination for our family vacations (we went there this year (Normandy and Brittany 2018), and I imagine we shall probably go to the central region next year, as I want to take the kids whitewater rafting in the Massif Central).

Thanks for staying with me this far - I have an appointment coming Wednesday with a guy from work for introducing him to Sellswords & Spellslingers, so expect an AAR to pop up on these pages very soon!

Vacation 2016 - Day 16: Guédelon Castle, Part 13, The Mill and Surroundings

Vacation 2016 - Day 16: Guédelon Castle, Part 12, The Road to the Mill

Somewhere in the woods, somewhat distant from the construction site itself, lies a small watermill, according to the site map, so we decided to go there and have a look.

The road from the mill is well guarded.

It is quite a long walk, but it was very nice to be in the shade of the trees, and there is a lot of places where you can sit down a small break, should you be so inclined.

The woods also harbour a kind of school house, apparently used for teaching the principles of medieval architecture.