June 15th - A stroll through a royal garden in Denmark
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
For today’s travel pod, I’ve wandered into the garden of a royal palace – in Denmark, which means it’s access (almost) all areas without formality. Specifically, I’m in the exquisitely pretty town of Møgeltønder, location for Schackenborg Castle – where Prince Joachim, the second son of the Queen of Denmark, lives. The gardens are glorious, a wildlife symphony from melodic birdsong to staccato frogs. Along the main street, 12th-century Møgeltønder church is surely the most intricately beautiful in Scandinavia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast which has never quite begun in this way. |
| 0:11.1 | That's because I'm in a very special place, Shackenborg Castle in southern Denmark, in the far southwestern tip of the Jutland peninsula in fact. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm beside a large rectangular lake surrounded by reeds with a very substantial population of frogs, |
| 0:36.8 | which is lovely. There's one just bouncing around, oh, two of them, which is lovely. |
| 0:38.3 | There's one just bouncing around, oh, two of them, one actually chasing the other one. |
| 0:43.3 | Along the surface of the water, there's the odd lily pad and a duck in the background, just wishing to join in. |
| 0:53.3 | Walking past the greenhouses, we're already early in the morning. |
| 0:58.0 | The grounds men, they're the only gender I've seen so far, are getting things in order. |
| 1:07.0 | And the lovely thing about this is that it's an actual royal residence for Prince |
| 1:16.1 | Joachim he's the second son of the Queen of Denmark and it's this beautiful |
| 1:26.1 | manicured garden buttercups down there roses away to the left that you can just |
| 1:35.7 | wander around freely any time day or night i know that prince wakim is in because there's a |
| 1:43.8 | Danish flag outside that tells you that. And it's so, so different |
| 1:49.3 | from our notion of high security and so on. I guess the equivalent would be, well, I don't know, |
| 1:57.5 | it would be, I suppose he performs the same role as prince harry does in the |
| 2:03.4 | british royal family but let's not go into that you can hear the gravel crunching |
| 2:10.0 | there's the main gate over to my left which is sternly locked and then a beautiful avenue lined by flower beds and with I think there's oak trees |
| 2:25.6 | on either side leading down to a 17th century mansion and very handsome it is too. It looks solidly if I may. |
| 2:39.0 | The kind of German, very strong influence of Germany here. The border is only about three miles away. |
| 2:47.0 | And the notion that I can just be walking along here, |
| 2:53.9 | very happily talking to you and enjoying the sounds of the morning. |
| 2:59.9 | No other tourists in sight at all. |
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