The oldest of four round churches on Bornholmis Østerlars from 1100AD. The round churches were
used as fortresses when pirates from Northern
Germany raided Bornholm.
I'm finally online again after a working trip to the Danish island of Bornholm last week. Thank you for all your comments on my posts. I'll comment on them in the comment section of each post. And then I'll have to catch up on all your posts too.
In this post I'll show you a few of the 500 photos I got home with me. I hope you like them.
In this post I'll show you a few of the 500 photos I got home with me. I hope you like them.
The ruin of Hammershus Castle is the biggestin Northern Europe. It was build in ca. 1100 by
the Archbishop of Lund as a base for the crusades
to the Baltic Countries. I didn't get many photos
here because we went there at night.
We went to a Bird-of-Prey Show where we were shown this little American kestrel.
And then the birds got bigger...a lot bigger!
The falconers were extremely friendly with the birds, here a Harris hawk.
This eagle was aiming for me...and hitme in flight. Talk about the audience
getting close to the birds!
It is a big eagle. 5 kg and a wingspan of 2 meters.
The eagle has landed (almost):-)
The final bird was this vulture. 9 kg and awingspan of 3 meters. And it flew just a few cms
above our heads. I can warmly recommend
a visit to this kind of show. It was absolutely fantastic.
The Baltic Sea hammers the rocks
The Shrine
The Shrine
On Bornholm the local speciality is smoked herring.They are smoked locally in these smokehouses.
It's a treat with blackbread, salt and egg yolk.
This is the last working smokehouse in the
beautifull little town of Gudhjem.
Gudhjem with smokehouse chimneys
Rønne
Sunset
Aa Church is considered the oldest churchon Bornholm, and the main one. It's
from around 1100 and is in Aakirkeby.
As you can see it really is an island worth visiting even when actually working:-)
It is quite difficult to comment all these images. The first churchhas an almost house-in-the-country look. I like the birds shots, the eagle one is great! Impressive the last church and the red & yellow timber house.
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoyed your trip. I enjoyed viewing your photos, they are all wonderful, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful, Christopher! I've never been to Scandinavia (or lots of other places, for that matter), so these photos were not only enjoyable, but enlightening!
ReplyDeleteGreat photography, too, which makes viewing them that much easier.
These old churches kind of blow my mind. Anything in Florida that's more than 100 years old is considered to be of ancient antiquity!
Have a great rest of the weekend.
Sterling photos... you've really captured the beauty of Bornholm. I especially love the images of the 'Round Church', the 'Aa Church' and the 'Sunset'... Hmmmmmm - I'd definitely love to visit. Well, it's good that you had a positive and fruitful time on your 'working holiday' (smile)!
ReplyDeleteOooh, Ahhh...these are spectacular!!!! Love the Kestral photos in particular...but the first church photo is fabulous...I think I'm going to have to mention you on David's blog for these!!!! Cheers! ~Janine
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a round church before. You have great shots on this blog.
ReplyDelete(I came here from Janine's site.)
Looks like you arranged the blue skies in time to show off the colourful houses!
ReplyDeleteThanks to you all for your nice comments. No, it wasn't a holiday (trust me on that:-)), but I did get the chance to shoot a bit. Bornholm is a nice place to be and a favorite tourist destination in the summer. We were lucky with the weather as can be seen, even though it was a bit windy.
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