lawrencejmcook wrote:

If you are interested in modern art, then I recommend a visit to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. It's about a 20min drive north of Copenhagen, located on a headland with great views over the sea.

Lawrence

And the other end of the spectrum ... 18thC and in the city ... An amazing place for one man's works

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorvaldsen_Museum

elephant wrote:

lawrencejmcook wrote:

 

If you are interested in modern art, then I recommend a visit to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. It's about a 20min drive north of Copenhagen, located on a headland with great views over the sea.

 

Lawrence

 

 

And the other end of the spectrum ... 18thC and in the city ... An amazing place for one man's works

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorvaldsen_Museum

Thorvaldsens Museum and Standingsmuseet is definitely worth a visit. I'd love to have a cup of coffee with another Beoworlder if you fancy visiting Aarhus - have already been visited by Elephant, Valve1, Søren Mexico and Geoff Martin himself who came to collect his own birthday present 🙂

Otherwise I recommend visiting Jernbanemuseet in Odense if you fancy trains; both diesel and steam engines are represented and you can even enjoy trips with them on selected days during the summer. The first MY locomotive has that nice sounding 16-cylinder two-stroke EMD engine 😕

Thank you to everyone who has responded with so many great suggestions.

I've had confirmation from Struer tourist information that they have booked us onto the factory tour on 12th August so I'm now busy plotting all these places into google maps so I can plan a route and work out where we want to stay overnight (or longer).

Elephant: Thanks for the heads-up regarding the hire costs, you were correct - I've done some online quotes and there is a massive difference in car hire costs as soon as the collection and drop-off points are in a different country (an increase of 300-400 percent!).

MM: Thanks for your detailed route suggestions as well as places to visit - this is where local knowledge is so valuable as it is often not just the places you visit, but also the routes you take between them (even if you're not stopping) that shape the feel you get for an area.

Søren: We will definitely be visiting Aarhus and will likely be spending a night or two there so we would love to meet up with you for a coffee. I'll let you know nearer the time once we know which day(s) we will be in Aarhus.

Thanks again,

Martin.

 

i did this last year, we drove from Copenhgagen to Struer, back and then to Malmo and Ystad - had a great time but should have listened to beoworlders as it was a lot of driving, didnt use the car in Copenhagen and do not hire a small car, you need a big one to cover the distances comfortably.

It is a great trip though and thoroughly enjoyable - have a fab time

Less than two weeks to go before we travel to Denmark, and getting excited now 🙂

We've booked accommodation in Give, Ribe, Struer, Skagen, Aarhus, Odense, Helsingborg, and Copenhagen, mostly alternating between two nights in one place and one night in the next (the idea being to give us at least 24 hours in each location even after taking the travelling time between locations into account).

I've planned an approximate route in google maps which hopefully strikes a reasonable balance between journey times versus scenery and avoids simply travelling on motorways all of the time:-

Looks fantastic -- shows great planning

My only new suggestion seeing as how are you have wandered into Sweden is the motor down from Malmo to Ystad the home of Wallander

That is if you are a fan of detective mysteries

And then of course Fjallbacka as well 😁

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@Martin

May I suggest that you - coming from Ålborg heading south towards Århus - go by a more eastern route, than the motorway.

You could head for hitting the motorway by Randers - maybe stopping in Mariager for a coffee.

This way you would see more of how the east-side of Jylland is - now that you have been driving north along the west-side from Struer.

That is, if your schedule allows for it.

Have a nice trip.

MM

elephant wrote:

My only new suggestion seeing as how are you have wandered into Sweden is the motor down from Malmo to Ystad the home of Wallander

That is if you are a fan of detective mysteries

That's a good idea, thanks. Ystad looks well worth visiting. It will reduce the time we can spend in Malmo but since neither of us are overly keen on shopping that shouldn't be an issue.

elephant wrote:

And then of course Fjallbacka as well 😁

That one will definitely have to wait until some future tour of Sweden, although by that time there may be nobody left in Fjallbacka given it's (fictional) murder rate per head of population would seem to give Honduras a run for it's money 😕

Millemissen wrote:

May I suggest that you - coming from Ålborg heading south towards Århus - go by a more eastern route, than the motorway.

You could head for hitting the motorway by Randers - maybe stopping in Mariager for a coffee.

This way you would see more of how the east-side of Jylland is - now that you have been driving north along the west-side from Struer.

That is, if your schedule allows for it.

Thank you MM, we have plenty of time on the day we travel between Skagen and Aarhus, and I'd already dragged the route somewhat to the east because the google route planner was keen to take us back to the west from Skagen, through Hjørring, effectively repeating part of our route up from Struer, before heading South on the motorway .

I see there is a ferry between Hals and Egense so it looks like we could actually travel down the coastline most of the way, making our way back to the motorway at Randers, via Mariager, as you have suggested. It would mean bypassing Aalborg altogether but we hadn't any specific plans to stop there and the coastal route looks much more scenic.

I wonder if I can get hold of one of those HD car cameras that stick on the windscreen before we go - it could be interesting to make a time-lapse video of our journey...

Thanks again,

Martin.

 

riverstyx wrote:

I wonder if I can get hold of one of those HD car cameras that stick on the windscreen before we go - it could be interesting to make a time-lapse video of our journey...

If you mean a GoPro then they are amazing and good fun. However there is a learning curve so don't leave the decision until the Duty Free shop.

Before I took then plunge into the GoOro world I bought the Dummies Guide and read it cover to cover -- a great investment leading to a good decision

riverstyx wrote:

It will reduce the time we can spend in Malmo but since neither of us are overly keen on shopping that shouldn't be an issue.

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...we have plenty of time on the day we travel between Skagen and Aarhus, and I'd already dragged the route somewhat to the east because the google route planner was keen to take us back to the west from Skagen, through Hjørring, effectively repeating part of our route up from Struer, before heading South on the motorway .

I see there is a ferry between Hals and Egense so it looks like we could actually travel down the coastline most of the way, making our way back to the motorway at Randers, via Mariager, as you have suggested. It would mean bypassing Aalborg altogether but we hadn't any specific plans to stop there and the coastal route looks much more scenic.

If you want to go to Malmö, go see the Emporia.

Not because of the shopping, but because of the architechture/the design of the building: