Hay Press in Bredstrup

Small square bales of compressed hay is needed when you have horses. Small bales are easier to handle and stack in the barn. Today it is not easy to get a machine to compress small bales. The farmers machinery are to big to handle small bales.

Pure and fine beaches

The blue flag of Bogense Marina is the only of its kind along the north coast of Funen. There was not money to hoist the blue flag on the beaches from Tørresø to Enebærodde this year. It is otherwise obvious to use the blue flag by Hasmark Beach. Yuo can not find better beaches in Nordfyn.

FEE-flag

Bathing water and the beach is at the top, but the blue flag is missing. The blue flag is the European standard and signals that the water is clean and free of coli bacteria and streptococci. But it is too expensive for the municipality to use the flag, although the water is very clean and nice. It can fishermen from Germany, England and Sweden testify.

The international organization Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) in 2008 allocated a total of 75 Danish ports the BLUE FLAG, indicating that hygiene and a range of environmental conditions found okay.

Verner Panton - designer and architect

Born in 1926 on Funen

The famous designer and architect Verner Panton began his career in the North Funen. Born in 1926 to innkeeper parents in Gamtofte, Assens, a tiny village on the island of Fünen, he longed to become a artist, but he had little talent for painting or drawing. Despite this, he won a place at the technical college in Odense, the largest town on the island. He studied and completed his studies in Odense, and afterwards enrolling at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen as an architecture student. He established his own design office in 1955 and is credited with the design of the very first single-form injection-moulded plastic chair - the Stacking chair designed in 1960.

The Cone Chair

Kom Igen Inn

The Cone was originally designed for his parents’ new restaurant. The Cone Chair is a thinly padded conical metal shell placed point-down on a cross-shaped metal base.
His parents owned an inn Come Again by Langesø and mid-50s accounted Verner Panton expansion of the inn and designed the Cone. A Danish businessman, Percy von Halling-Koch, spotted it at the opening and offered to put it into production for Panton. When it was photographed for Mobilia, the Danish design magazine, in 1961, Panton draped naked shop mannequins and models on the chairs, which caused a minor scandal. The Cone Chair even attracted controversy in New York, after the police ordered that it be removed from a shop window where large crowds had gathered to see it.

Gallery Kom Igen in Bogense

The famous designer and architect Verner Panton has his own gallery at North Funen - Nordfyn.
You can visit the gallery Come Again in Østergade in Bogense. Here are gathered many of Verner Panton works and you can get an insight into his connection with Nordfyn and Odense. The gallery in Bogense will help to pay tribute to the late architect and designer who is behind the success as Flower pot, The Cone Chair and Tivoli Chair. The gallery has intrance from the courtyards of the old merchant house – den Gamle Købmandsgård.

You will find the gallery at: Den Gamle Købmandsgård, Østergade 19, 5400 Bogense.

Brunsviger Cake

A birthday-brunsviger cake

Brunsviger cake is a local fynsk cake used for birthdays. It is said that the cake comes from Brunsegård in Tommerup at Midtfyn. My definition of brunsviger is a bold yeast dough, being poured with a generous portion of boiled together brown sugar and butter. Brunsviger tastes best warm and with lots of icing on.

You can not have been on the Hans Christian Andersen's birth island without having tasted a brunsviger. Brunsviger Cake can be purchased at any bakery at Fyn.

Sea kayaking as a family activity

Borrow a sea kayak and sail around in Odense Fjord. You experience nature in a completely different way and it all felt more pervasive. More and more people are beginning to look at sea kayak voyage and begins to see the many qualities and possibilities of the activity. First, it is not as difficult as many think. Most can actually have a successful experience of even a short course.

Sea kayak at Flyvesandet, Otterup.

Sea kayak sailing is incredibly relaxing and a different way to be together as a family. There are several places on Nordfyn, where you can take a tour of sea kayaking. Take the trip to Æbleø by Bogense or a trip to Vigelsø by Klintebjerg. Flyvesandet is also an incredibly beautiful and rich natural place.

Kano Kim, Kayak Kim, is a local sailor who knows the area and he would be good to take a word with before you take a tour. www.kanokim.dk

Enebærodde

Enebærodde is Fyns largest heathland with heather and juniper bushes. The area is protected with access walking everywhere. Cattle and sheep graze on the beach meadow. At Enebærodde there are good chances of see viper especially in April where you can spot them on places with stones and sand.

Enebærodde is located at the end of Odense Fjord, ca. 5 km. east of Otterup. You go to Hasmark Beach and head for 'Halshusene'. Take the first road on the right side before you reach Hasmark Camping and you will find the area easily. You have to take a walk for about 3,5 kilometers before you reach Enebærodde.

Enebærodde is a 6 km long and 20 to 750 m wide isthmus of Nordfyn, between the Kattegat and the western side of Odense Fjord.
Tangen is Fyns largest continuous hot area, and is named after the juniper bushes that grow on the device. At Tangen also growing bell heather, heather moorland and crowberry. Among the wildlife are viper, snakes and lizards. The area at the Odense Fjord is a wildlife sanctuary for birds.

The Norwegian House in Hofmansgaves park

The Norwegian's house in park Hofmansgaves strains from 1814. The Norwegians built the house as thanks for a precious consignment of grain to the starving Norwegian people.

It was during the Napoleonic warsthat it succeeded Hofmannsgave to sail a cargo of grain to Norway. This precious help was not forgotten. After the war was over in 1814, the Norwegians came, in turn, sailing with timber and built the Norwegian House in Hofmansgave.

Here you will find The Norwegian House: Hoffmansgave, Hoffmansgavevej 23, 5450 Otterup.