Halden Norway

Quick trip into Halden Norway. Melanie bought some Norwegian yarn, boys and I bought some sandwiches and walked around. Later we visited Fredriksten Fortress

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Bound for Norway

We just finished breakfast and are getting ready for a 2.5 hour drive to Halden Norway

Sketching over the Kattegat

A misty rain falling at this lookout over the Kattegat Strait (Hovås, Sweden). Still possible to do a watercolour sketch but the humidity makes the results unpredictable.

Dessert

Dinner Tonight

Day 2 in Sweden

We dropped the boys off at the Lisberg roller coaster park and are now at the Nordic Watercolour Museum in Skärhamn.

Breakfast

Hovås, Sweden

Picked Melanie and the boys up at the CPH airport. Got the rental car and drove up the west coast of Sweden.  Hovås is just south of Gottenburg.

Ørsted Offshore Wind Development

One of the first offshore wind developments in Denmark lies just outside of Copenhagen.  We took a boat from the downtown and had a chance to get inside of one of the towers.

Hotel Astoria

I am staying at the Hotel Astoria is a next to the Central Station in Copenhagen. The building is an early example of Functionalist architecture in Denmark. The building was designed as a station hotel for the Danish State Railways by Ole Falkentorp, who had started his career in the State Railways' design office before forming his own practice. The hotel was built from 1934 to 1935 as the first luxury hotel in Copenhagen.

Early morning walk

It didn't get dark until midnight and the sun was up before 4am. I went out for some fresh air at 6am.

Samsø Onshore Turbine

We had the opportunity to meet with a Danish farmer on Samsø today to talk about what it is like to be a local investor in an onshore turbine. We then climbed a 50m turbine on his property.