"The Princess and the Pea"
by evaanna
This year's Flower Festival in Odense was devoted to Hans Christian Andersen and his fairy tales. My favourite was the flower illustration to "The Princess and the Pea". In case you don't remember the story ( but who doesn't?) it's a tale of a prince who wanted to marry a real princess but none of the girls he met came up to his expectations. One rainy night a girl knocked on the town gate - soaked through, she looked awful but she said she was a princess. So, to check if this was true, the queen, the prince's mother, put a pea under the twenty mattresses and the twenty eiderdowns on the girl's bed. Asked in the morning if she had slept well, the girl complained that she hadn't slept a wink - there was something hard in her bed which had left bruises all over her body.
That proved it: she was the real princess the prince had been looking for. They married of course and lived happily ever after.
Now look at the flower arrangement - isn't it the perfect illustration of the tale?
A very old pub, Den Gamle Kro (1683)
by ATLC
This pub has entrances for women and men separately. It was said to be 'not done' for a man to be seen leaving the pub with a woman. As we were a group of all women (except Per who was cycling around Lorna), we naturally scoffed at the idea!
Bagenkop
by globetrott
Bagenkop is a small village in a distance of about 40 km south-east of Odense, at the south-end of the island Langeland. One of the cousins of my mother was living there, and she had invited us to spend some time there in 1964. In the year 2000 I returned there and I think that Bagenkop might also be an interesting place to go for ordinary tourists, who care for lovely landscapes and a quiet vacation.
My favorite building was the church, where you may also see a sailing-boat hanging down from the ceiling, in order to get a safe return of the fishermen of Bagenkop. The husband of our relative was one of them, beeing out on the open sea fishing for several weeks, so we actually never met him.
The Museum of Photographic...
by ClaesDenmark
The Museum of Photographic Art
This museum is the only one of it´s kind in Denmark. Apart from a permanent collection, the museum offers 10-12 different exhibitions during the year. There is a 'friends of the museum' circle, which offers reduced prices. Own magazine is published.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN'S...
by ClaesDenmark
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN'S CHILDHOOD HOME
The house where Hans Christian Andersen lived as a child from 1807-1819, is now a branch of the Hans Christian Andersen Museum proper in Hans Jensens Stræde. A couple of the rooms contain a small exhibition on the writer's childhood in Odense.
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Odense, H.C. Andersen Museum, fairy tale stage
Vollsmose
Egeskov slot - 40 km south of Odense
A few of HCAs papercuttings
