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Tour around Skagen

mandag 15. juli 2019
af Christina Ninou

The day started calmly in our living room, drinking our coffee and tea and finishing up our video about the Whitethroat. You can check out the video in the following link: https://www.facebook.com/Skagenfuglestation/videos/2104643632981308/?t=0

At 12:30 Lene came and picked us up (Martin, Joakim and me) to take us on a super guided tour around Old Skagen and not only. We started with an architectural tour of the amazing buildings and houses of Skagen. We also got to see the sea on both the East and the West side of the area and walked up to the hill of old Skagen and had a nice view of the sea and the town.

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The first highlight of the day was the visit to the Natural History Museum of Skagen with a superb collection of stuffed birds and mammals that have ever been seen in Denmark. The owner of the collection informed us that the exhibition we saw was only 20% of his total collection! After that, Lene took us, to her office. The interesting thing about that is, that this building used to be the house of the famous Danish painter, Krøyer. We were lucky to get to see the house from the inside. She showed us all the rooms and the beautiful little kitchen. What was also amazing though were the huge windows in one of the central rooms with a view to the garden. In the end, we visited the Skagen Museum. We learned a bit about the history of Skagen and saw some very interesting paintings of local famous painters such as Krøyer, Michael and Anna Ancher, Viggon Johansen and others. Also, there was an exhibition of some of the huge masterpieces of Krøyer, which were very impressive!

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In the meanwhile, our new visitors, Irene and Hue, had a nice day, visiting our exhibition and then going up to the lighthouse. Later in the day, we met Kim, Benjamin, and Andreas, the rest of the family that will be staying next door for the rest of the week! We are very excited to have new people around and we have already planned to do so many things with them!

After having dinner, we prepared for the Nightjar counting! So all of us together got ready and left the house at about ten in the evening. It was a long but really interesting walk and we came back at three in the morning.

People: Joakim Matthiesen, Simon S Christiansen, Martin Y Georgiev, Christina Ninou, Kim Haselmann, Benjamin Haselmann, Andreas Haselmann, Hugh Mayo and Irene Mayo.