Wild and hot
Odense is despite its size, clarity and very green. The stream winds its way through the cityscape and produces a floating band for the parks at Monks Moor, HC Andersen Park. Stream flowing past the Odense Zoo, where wild and warm year round. Take a walk in the pleasant garden, climb aboard one of Aafart both and enjoy the trip down the River Odense – with or without a jazz band on board.
Andersen and Nielsen
Two very common Danish names, and yet not. With forenames Hans Christian and Carl have each put Odense on the world map.
The town has two museums for the poet. Here you come close to H.C. Andersen’s life and works are still read throughout the world.
The music was Carl Nielsen’s language and he understood, among other things to put music to the Funen spring. Every year the town celebrates its famous composer, when young musicians from all over the world flock to Odense to compete in the International Carl Nielsen contests. Also, Nielsen has two museums, one in Odense and one in No. Lyndelse.
Too taste
Cafés and restaurants are full of good news for the taste buds. Odense has taken great strides to meet the demand for commodities, which oozes quality. Jump in the square at the Concert House Wednesday and Saturday or on Rosenbæk Farm Market Friday / Saturday, where stalls outbidding each other in very tasteful delicacies from cheeses and wines of goodies from restaurants, butchers and farmers of all kinds from around the Fyn topsoil. Take into Bazar Fyn and get the drainage of all the “vices” I have brought home from the big world. Everything is available there and served in high spirits at the international Danish!
Senses
From Rosenbæk Farm Market is not far Brandt international art exhibitions, photography and media museum, cafes, shops and the small museum of the future sessions, where you can familiarize themselves with dear memories in the form of clothes, utensils, trinkets and much else from when they themselves – or one’s mother – was very young. Here is open year round, and it also applies across Odense. The city never closes. So are ye in ‘Odin’s sanctuary’ in winter, you can tighten the skates on and sign a couple of eight metals on the pitch at the old monastery at Gråbrødretorv. Go to theater, listen to concerts in Odense Concert Hall and the city’s other music sites go VinterZOO and warm with rain forest animals. Otherwise, teeming with shops, museums and enticing cafes, who knows what people want.
Did you know that
you – almost – can cycle through the entire Great Odense without meeting a single car? The city is Denmark’s Cycle City No. 1 and has 360 km gravel and asphalt paths built along rivers and disused railway lines.
