Roskilde

What a day! I was in the Viking ship museum. It started with a trip out on a real Viking ship this ship was not like other "Viking ships". A lot of people build a boat and put a square sail on it and call it Viking, but the ship I sailed with was a recreation of the remains found on the bottom of Roskilde fjord. Since the trip after ours was cancelled, but the conditions were perfect, the skipper didn't want to go in, so instead he took us on a double trip. That was so cool!!! The waves were huge, and the wind was perfect, only one problem came up. It was the fact that there was a long-distance swim race going on in the fjord, and the finish line was right was the swimmer was coming to the finish line. This was hard, but we found a break where we pushed off. We had to row out of the harbor. Sometimes the skipper would shout at us oars up, and a head would pass by us (with a draft of less than a 2 meters, we sat very close to the water and the heads were very close). I don't know if the swimmer liked coming in while a Viking ship was going out, but I know I would have. We then took up the sail, and raced through the wind (blowing at close to 20 mph) we then turned around, and went back to the museum, and then turned around again! We all got super wet. I got splashed, a lot. When finally we had to go back, we sailed all the way into the harbor. That is a rare experience. Then we went on to see a smith working on some things for another recreation. We continued to play in the Sea Stallion (a recreation of a Viking longboat that took up to 60 people to Ireland in 2008. This was cool to look in, and experience how these people lived. Then we went on a boring tour for kids 4 years old, and finally went into the museum. The museum was built because 5 ships had been found in the fjord. The story goes... The fjord into the city is hard to pass because it's max 5 meters deep. There are only 3 places a ship can pass. One of these is so weird, and twisty that boats can't really pass without knowledge about how it works. The two others were blocked with the Viking ships so that enemy would have to go through ships to get the city. This was smart. Therefore, they had 5 ships sitting there. When the government moved from Roskilde, there was no longer a need for the protection. Therefore these ships were left to entropy in nature. In other words, they sank. Then some divers found them, and they were excavated, dried plastic coated, and built into a ships shape. This was super cool. That is what the museum has in it. That was what I did today :) So fun to sail