Davis Family Visit

This past week, my Uncle Jim, Aunt Barbara, and cousin Matthew came to visit us here in little old Aalborg. They spent a week in Paris, then headed north to spend a few days with us. On their first full day in Aalborg, Andrew and I took them on the standard drive on the northern coast of Denmark. We stopped at the Viking burial ground on the way out of town, drove on the beach, walked out to Grennen at Skagen, and put our feet in the North and Baltic Seas. 

In addition to all of our usual stopping points, we visited a bunker museum in Hirtshals on our way around the coast. During WWII, the Germans built several bunkers along the coast of Denmark in order to control the passage of ships in the North and Baltic Seas, and we got to go inside a few (and Andrew got to climb up and down one - always fun!).

We spent the next day touring the Voergaard Slot, a nearby castle that has the widest moat in Denmark, and several furnishings that belonged to Marie Antoinette and Napoleon. (Also, the castle is supposedly haunted by a previous owner, but we didn't see any ghosts!)

For the rest of their visit we stayed in Aalborg: I gave them the historic tour of the city, we did plenty of shopping (and pastry-eating), and we visited the Aalborg Zoo. They were wonderful guests and we were so happy to have them here. More pictures of their visit are on flickr here.