Runners ascend the stairs of the ARoS Museum in Aarhus, Denmark

While strolling through Aarhus in early July of 2011 I found myself in the middle of a race. The runners had already swam a couple kilometers in the bay and bicycled for 90 kilometers around the hills and suburbs of Aarhus before embarking on this half marathon. At this point in the half marathon the runners ran up hundreds of stairs before running through the museum and out the other side!

Posted on April 24th, 2014 under Denmark. Tags: aarhus, muse, Nikon 18-200mm VR II, nikon d7000. Comments Off on Half Iron distance race through ARoS Museum

Advertisement for Metaxa and Absinthe outside bar in Aarhus, Denmark

Having never tried either, I cannot comment on the veracity of the claims made.

Posted on March 25th, 2014 under Denmark. Tags: aarhus, Nikon 18-200mm VR II, nikon d7000, signs. Comments Off on Today’s Soup

Moesgaard Museum’s Grauballe Man

One of the other notes at the museum said that when the body was first discovered the locals thought it was that of a drunkard named Red Kristian who disappeared one evening when taking a shortcut through the bog. Instead, Grauballe Man turned out to be from the late 3rd Century BC.

Grauballe Man description in Moesgaard Museum (Aarhus, Denmark)

Posted on January 12th, 2014 under Denmark. Tags: aarhus, Moesgard Museum, museums, Nikon 18-200mm VR II, nikon d7000. Comments Off on Grauballe Man

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Moesgaard Museum – Stave Church – Århus, Denmark

One day, while sightseeing in Århus, Denmark, I rode the bus down to Højbjerg to check out the stave church. I knew what a stave church was supposed to look like from playing the “Age of Mythology” computer game so I was a bit disappointed to find this one which looked nothing like my expectations.

Stave church interior

None of the original Viking churches have survived in Denmark. This one is a reconstruction done in the 1990s. The bell tower next to the church was completed in 2004.

Posted on February 4th, 2013 under Denmark. Tags: aarhus, buildings, jutland, Moesgard Museum, Nikon 18-200mm VR II, nikon d7000, stave church. Comments Off on Stave Church near Århus (Moesgård Museum)