roskilde (denmark)

This is a town 20 minutes(by train) outside of Copenhagen. Perhaps it is best known for its rock festival the last weekend of June -- it's said that it takes the full year to clean up and get ready for the following year. We went to experience a town outside of CPH, and to see the Viking Ship Museum -- a museum Bruce visited 29 years ago.

Back mid-last century, some ancient Viking ships were found at the base of the Roskilde fjord. A group of archaeologists has made it their project to restore these five boats, and a museum was built to display the boats and teach others about them. In fact, a replica was built of the boat that originated in Dublin (a Viking city) and as of August 9 this year, it will have made its second voyage from Dublin --> Roskilde, replicating some of the journeys that were made long ago. Check out some of our photos below of the town and the museum.

You can see a few of the boats here. The nearer one looks like a wider one (more a cargo boat). The farther one -- it's hard to tell in the picture -- but it's a narrower, longer one, more suitable for battle.









The innards of one of the boats that hadn't had quite so much reconstructed yet.












Waterfront near Viking Ship Museum.
















And finally... the town of Roskilde.