Tour Report: Home of the Rustbucket [DK]

Pretty close to a dirt racing track lies this abandoned farm that we visited together with Pixelcracker and Lost Places in Schleswig-Holstein und Umland on our tour through Denmark in May of last year. It was the third spot of the tour and although unspectacular from the outside, it turned out to be a pretty neat place.
There was a race going on on the dirt track, so the surrounding roads were all full of parked cars almost right up to the location that we were headed for. So we blended in nicely when we parked right in front of the place.
We had hoped for a little more than just the remains of an old farm, but that's what it was. There weren't even any real remains of the farmhouse, only two ramshackle barns were left, one of them with a collapsed roof. It didn't look too promising...
But the first thing we saw when we entered the larger of the two barns was an old threshing machine. You don't see that everyday, so it was a pretty nice find. There were some other tools and relics to be found in the large barn as well, but the second highlight presented itself in the second barn. There were the remains of an old horse-drawn wagon with beautifully decaying wooden wheels - and an old automobile. It took some time to find out what type of car it was, but after a while, we came to suspect that it is a Chrysler/Talbot Sunbeam built in the late 1970s.
At some point during our explore, two little girls entered the barn, and my wife did her best entertaining them in Danish until we were finished exploring the place so they wouldn't get hurt climbing around in the old barn.
After two rather empty and a bit disappointing spots on that tour, these two barns were a nice find because of the nice decay and the nicely preserved machine we found in there. It was a good sign for the next location, I think...


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Tour Report: "A House on the Way" [DK]

The second spot on our tour through Denmark in May of last year together with Pixelcracker and Lost Places in Schleswig-Holstein und Umland was a rather unspectacular abandoned house we discovered on the way from the "House Gammel Dansk" to the next location on our list.
It was the typical situation. Someone in the car yells "Wait, that looks abandoned.", and the car comes to a sudden halt with stuff flying from the back to the front.
We quickly found a spot to park and started to walk around the place.
The back door was open, but we were a bit disappointed from what we found. The rooms were mostly empty, and the house itself was no gem, architecturally speaking.
After about fifteen minutes, we got back into the car and left for the next spot.


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Tour Report: House "Gammel Dansk" [DK]

The day after my birthday last year, my wife and I went for a tour through Denmark together with our good friends Pixelcracker and Lost Places in Schleswig-Holstein und Umland.
We had a couple of spots planned and so we started out pretty early. We met in Flensburg on the parking lot of a mall where Pixelcracker picked us up with his RV.
Thr first spot on our list was a small house just a short drive from the border.
The trash cans in front of the house looked relatively new. This is the case with many abandoned homes in Denmark, but it still makes you move a little more carefully just in case that someone does still live there.

Nobody lived here anymore. The front door was wide open, and someone had obviously looked through the stuff in the rooms.
There wasn't too much decay, so the house obviously hadn't been abandoned for too long, I think. The house itself was small and had only a couple of rooms. Some clothes were still on the hangers, books were lying around and there was a bottle of typical Danish liquor - hence the name of the place.
It was no spectacular explore but a nice and easy spot to warm up for the rest of the day.


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