A Sunday outing in the new neighborhood

We went to visit our new house today and go for a walk in the new dog park. We don't have the keys yet but I wanted to measure the yard because I'm planning the layout of my new vegetable garden. I took a bunch of photos so here you go:

SOLD! They can take that sign down now! Ven made it very clear that he likes the new yard and spend the entire time we were there bounding around like a deer and chewing on a stick. He looks a bit funny in this shot because he's not standing. He's landing.

Look at all that space for a vegetable garden!

A close up of the strawberry plants in front of the back patio. They look like wild strawberries which are Morten's favorite.

After we measured the yard and determined that if I went completely wild I'd have about 200 square meters of prime vegetable garden, we went for a walk in the new dog park. Bernstorffparken is a 'destination' dog park and people from all over Copenhagen and North Sjælland drive there to walk, especially on the weekends. The new dog park is really only used by locals so it's not as busy. We were there around 2:00 and it was a really cold day (notice the snow on the ground from last night). We saw only a few people and one dog. The last time we came was also a Sunday but around 11:00 am and we saw a lot more people and dogs then.

The park is actually the public grounds of Sorgenfri castle which was used as a royal residence until a few yars ago. No one lives there now (except staff) but it is clearly still being used for something because we saw smoke coming from some of the chimneys and everything still looks like it's up and running.The castle is in the center towards the bottom of the park. The north border of the park is the train tracks and we live more or less straight north from the castle. This bridge is the official start of the park and is only about 100 meters walk from our front door.

This is the little stream where you can put in a kayak or canoe and paddle around all the lakes in northern Sjælland. It's only a few feet deep but for little boats that's enough.
A big field in the park.

A monument to the people who died durring the wars between Denmark and Germany. They used to fight all the time about the border between North Germany and Southern Jutland (the part of Denmark that's not an island). I sometimes wonder if, when the world wars finally broke out, people in Denmark were like, "Not again!"

Morten, just before we get to the Sorgenfri Castle.

Erika and Ven in front of Sorgenfri Castle.

He's not much of a fetcher but he does like a good game of tug-o-war.

This is the path that runs between the park, on the right, and the train tracks on the left. Our house is just out of the shot on the left hand side.