Christmas in Tivoli

Every year Tivoli dresses up for Christmas. It's an orgy of light in the darkest time of the year. It's a Christmas market where people are selling hot chocolate, mulled wine, æbleskiver, and candy. Others sell ornaments and other Christmassy things. It's a magical place, and there's no way that you can leave there without being in the Christmas spirit.

 

 

The entrance

 

Nimb

 

Swans in front of Nimb

 

 

 

 

The Japanese Tower

 

The Russian Christmas tree

 

 

Tivoli in the summer is amazing. I've heard it's fantastic at Halloween. But Tivoli at Christmas is just spectacular. I can't recommend it enough if you ever visit Copenhagen or Denmark in December.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tange Lake

Tange Lake.

Anchors

Anchors at a museum in Thorsminde for stranded ships. The west coast has claimed the lives of many sailors whose ships stranded there, not least the British ship, St. George, which stranded near Thorsminde Christmas night 1811. Another British ship, the Defence, suffered the same fate the same night at the same place. Between 1300 and 1400 lives were lost. Only 17 survived. 

The museum is named after St. George.

Vissing Church

Interior of Vissing Church.

Vejrum Church

Vejrum Church.

The interior.

Trans

Trans Church. It's another of the west coast churches that the ocean (due to erosion) will claim sooner or later.

Efforts to stop the erosion. Pretty, too.

The beach at Trans.

The Jelling Runic Stones

The Jelling Runic Stones are on Unesco's World Heritage List. The smallest one was erected by King Gorm the Old in memory of his wife, Thyra. This one, the biggest, is called Denmark's Certificate of Babtism and was erected by King Harald Bluetooth. 

The inscription says "King Harald ordered this monument to be made in memory of Gorm, his father, and Thyra, his mother. The Harald who won all Denmark and Norway and christened the Danes." The last sentence is placed below the oldest picture of Christ in the Northern countries, hence the certificate of babtism.