Frilandsmuseet

I'm sitting on the back patio in the sun and it's 19°C again and I'm wearing shorts! (although the sun makes it a bit hard to see the computer screen and keeps reminding me how dirty my screen really is.) We'll see how long my battery can last.... (probably not long.)

Today my host family took me to the Open Air Museum (Frilandsmuseet), about a 25 minute drive from Copenhagen. It was SO COOL. It's basically a large area of land (over 86 acres, according to the website) that you can walk around and they've taken different old houses from around Denmark and put them back together exactly as they were. There are houses there from the 1600s and you can just walk in and look around! This is exactly the type of history I love and it was so fascinating to see what it was like to live on a farm in Jutland a few hundred years ago. They also had houses and stores from the early 1900s, and some farm animals (including some baby goats and sheep that I wanted to steal). Even better--it's free, and a great place to go on a walk or have a picnic! It's the type of place I could keep going back to and discover new things...I didn't even see all the houses while I was there, there were too many! (The website says there are over 50 farms, houses, and mills from every region in Denmark and the Faeroe Islands as well as the former Danish provinces of southern Sweden and northern Germany.) It made me want to just step back in time and see the kinds of people that lived in the houses, although I don't think I would want to stay long...a lot of the farms had the stables directly connected to the living quarters and there was no toilets or electricity. We also drove a scenic way home and I got to see some of the Danish countryside and some pretty lakes. I love this country so much! It was a lovely afternoon and I highly recommend seeing it if you ever visit Copenhagen and it's warm out.

Here's the website with some info if you're interested.