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From: Paula Goodfellow <>
Subject: Re: [DK] Denmark trip
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:21:20 -0700
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Oh-- I second getting a gps. When we went last, my husband was still in his phase of thinking that using a nav system would make you soft and weak, unable to navigate without technology. :) But I just got one when we went to New Zealand without conferring with him, and it totally converted him to having one for travel. Paula
On Apr 26, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Arlene Camp wrote:

> Hi Tami,
>
> We're leaving for Denmark on May 14. We return home on May 28. We made our
> plans through AAA. In 2002 we went, and I made all the plans. At that time
> we flew into Hamburg. It worked out great. We took a ferry from north of
> Hamburg to the southern tip of Denmark. You can also drive up through
> Jutland.
>
> We've been to Denmark four times. This trip will make five. The two
> previous trips and this next one have been to meet living relatives. I
> found them through my genealogy research and through some wonderful help
> from Børge Fogsgaard. We had fabulous times. The Danish people treat you
> like royalty.
>
> The last time we went we brought along a laptop computer and had the program
> Microsoft "Auto Route" and a Magellen GPS and had no trouble finding
> anything. This time we'll bring the "Auto Route" and a Garmin hand held
> GPS. The computer gives a great total view of where you're going. The
> Garmin (or a Tom Tom) gives point to point directions. If you've ever used
> Microsoft "Streets and Trips" it's just like "Auto Route". "Auto Route" is
> for Europe. We drove right up to the door of the people we were visiting.
>
> Arlene
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On
> Behalf Of Tami Williams
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:04 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [DK] Denmark trip
>
> Paula:
>
> Thanks for your words of encouragement. I keep thinking I'll go and then I
> think I won't go. I'm going to do it for sure after your e-mail.
>
> What airport would you suggest flying into?
>
> I appreciate the information and will check the links out for information.
>
> I'm sorry to hear about your scoliosis surgery - best of luck. Congrats on
> your Master's Degree.
>
> Tami
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Paula Goodfellow <> wrote:
>
>> Tami, go! Go as soon as you can. I tried to get my parents on a trip like
>> that, but they always had excuses until it was too late. I would plan to
> do
>> Bornholm at either the very first or the very end, because obviously you
>> won't be able to take your rental car there. Here on the Denmark list,
> many
>> of us have been very happy with Dansk Auto Rent:
>> http://www.danskautorent.com/
>>
>> They rent only to people who live outside Denmark so they can waive most
> of
>> the Danish taxes on rentals. A few years ago, they only had manual
>> transmissions, but when I looked at it awhile ago there were some with
>> automatics. Just be careful you know which you are getting if that's
>> important to you.
>>
>> I think you need a car for what you'd like to do. When we went to Denmark,
>> I wanted to do a similar route and the train system just wasn't practical.
>> It would be harder on your mother too.
>>
>> We stayed in a variety of places-- a home of a distant relative that I met
>> through DIS-Danmark, hostels (which can be very nice in Denmark) and
> B&B's.
>> I can't actually think of a hotel that we stayed in. I think that you can
> do
>> all the places you listed in two weeks, assuming that it's not too hard on
>> your mother to move that often.
>>
>> This page, on the sorely neglected FAQ page for this list, has some travel
>> tips:
>> http://homepage.mac.com/sootica/Sites/DenmarkFAQ/cultureandtravel.html
>>
>> Also, look here for pages specific to three of the places you're going:
>> http://homepage.mac.com/sootica/Sites/DenmarkFAQ/regionalresources.html
>>
>> I'm embarrassed to mention them because I know that the links are bad on
>> some of the pages. I started to make an entirely new site awhile ago, but
>> I've been in a master's degree program that has kept me very busy for the
>> last two years. I graduate May 20th. I'm having scoliosis surgery in June
>> and that will keep me pretty quiet for most of the summer, so I'm hoping
> to
>> finish my redo of the site then. Paula
>> On Apr 25, 2011, at 10:14 PM, Tami Williams wrote:
>>
>>> I am thinking about taking a trip to Denmark with my 82 year old mother
>> who
>>> spent a great deal of time in her earlier years researching her Danish
>>> ancestors. I really want to take her before her health will not allow
>> her
>>> to go. I wondered if anyone could answer a few questions for me.
>>>
>>> I want to go to the following places where my ancestors were from:
>>> Bornholm, Maribo, Vejle, and Aarhus.
>>>
>>> 1 - any suggestions if that is feasible to go to all those places in a
>> two
>>> week time period?
>>> 2- where is the cheapest and best place to fly into, with those places
> in
>>> mind?
>>> 3- do I rent a car - or is that really expensive and is it feasible?
>>> 4- what is the best way to figure out lodging for the trip?
>>>
>>> Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Tami
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