Sønderjylland / Southern Jutland

I weekenden tog jeg til Sønderjylland for at komme til 3 gange fødselsdag. Lørdag tog jeg toget til Kolding og nåede lige at se et glimt af Koldinghus før bussen videre sydpå skulle køre. 

This weekend I went to Southern Jutland for a 3 times birthday. On Saturday I took the train to Kolding and got to see a glimpse of "Koldinghus" before the bus was leaving to go south. 

Jeg havde booket hotel i Christiansfeld, som jo virkelig er en meget smuk by! (Flere billeder i morgen!) 
For nogle år siden var jeg på rundvisning, og denne gang var jeg inde og se kirkegården. Mest fordi min farmors søster er begravet der. Hun ligger i den ene side, hendes mand i den anden side, eftersom selv kirkegården er kønsopdelt! I det hele taget er det meget fascinerende at høre om Brødremenigheden. Det var utroligt meget anderledes!

I booked hotel in Christiansfeld, which is such a pretty city! (You'll get more photos tomorrow!)

A few years back I took a tour there, and this time I went to see the graveyard. Mostly because my paternal grandmothers sister is buried there. She is on one side, her husband on the other side, since even the graveyard has specific sides for the genders! All in all it was very fascinating hearing about the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. So very different!

Sønderjylland er jo noget af det mest danske og kongetro man kan finde! Så søndag morgen spiste jeg morgenmad under billedet af kong Frederik d 9. og dronning Ingrid. Det føltes vældigt royalt!

So Southern Jutland is extremely Danish and faithful to the royal family. So on Sunday morning I had breakfast beneath the picture of king Frederik the 9th and queen Ingrid. It felt so royal!

Jeg kunne ikke helt forstå at dronning Margrethe ikke fik lov at være der, men senere fandt jeg et billede af hende som dronning. Først fandt jeg dog det her! Hun står halvt gemt bag sin mor, med en fin sommerhat på. De besøgte Christiansfeld lige efter den nye grundlov som gjorde prinsesse Margrethe til kronprinsesse. 

I didn't quite grasp why queen Margrethe didn't get to be there, but later I found her photo as a queen. Before that, I found this! Here she is, half hidden behind her mum, wearing a pretty summer hat. They visited Christiansfeld shortly after the new Danish constitution that made princess Margrethe the crown princess. 

Efter en god morgenmad gik jeg en dejlig (og LANG) tur til fødselsdag. Det var temmelig koldt, men man får jo varmen når man bevæger sig. 

Fødselsdagen var virkelig hyggelig. Det var dejligt både at se familie, men også at se det nye sted de er flyttet til. 

Så var den weekend også godt brugt.....

After a lovely breakfast I took a very nice (and LONG) walk to the birthday. It was quite cold, but as always I felt warm after moving a bit. 

The birthday was so nice. It was lovely seeing family, but also the new place they moved to. 

And then the weekend was really well used.....