2018-07-14, Vacation 2018 - Day 5, Part 1: Over the Hills and O'er the Main ...

 ... but not through Portugal and Spain.

From Brügge we took the coastal road until after Dunkerque (I had hoped that there would be some signs pointing to the beaches from where the BEF was evacuated, but, nope ...).

Lots of photos taken by Anna (I think) from the backseat.

We passed the Nieuwpoort Monument.

About this time, we encountered a series of roadside signs that made me deviate from Gurli's (our Garmin) plotted route. More about that in the next Vacation 2018 post.

2017-07-11, Vacation 2017, Day 8: Trelleborg (Zealand, Denmark)

Nothing quite finished on the miniatures front today, so here's the last installment of our trip to Sweden.

On the way home we made a stop at Trelleborg near Slagelse on Zealand. The 'Trellborgs' are a number of circular ramparts/fortifications built as military encampments by Harald Bluetooth in various parts of Denmark and Southern Sweden, probably to demonstrate his unification of the realm of the Danes.

This particular Trelleborg has a nice museum with interesting elements, such as reconstructed clothings.

How a longhouse is supposedly constructed-

A model of the Trelleborg, based on the excavations at hte site.

The actual rampart from afar.

An older reconstruction of a longhouse or mead hall. Notice how the wooden 'pillars' are different from the newer model in the museum.

An outdoor model of the site.

The following pictures are from the actual site.

The following pictures are depicting various aspects of the Trellborg open-air museum.

And thus ended our rather short vacation trip. Had the car not needed a new transmission after the vacation in Catalonia, we might have had a longer visit to Sweden, but money was tight, and the mortgage cannot be postponed.

There will be one more post from the 2017 holidays, as we also visited Lundeborg Iron Age Market after returning home, but that is another story alltogether.