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Stories: Albuen diary, why - The sun is
always shining at Albuen - Fishing - MiniZoo -
Mr. Crocodille Dundee - Whats to eat - 2 bread,
the daily news and a morning beer - A summer
full of rain - Summerfun -
Albuen Diary - why !
To live and work at a campsite... it’s a
lifestyle. And I think you have to be a little
crazy to love it... and this I’m now
admitting.... - I am perhaps a little crazy.
This is now the 4. season I’m the owner of
Albuen Strand Camping (ASC). I have meet a lot
of peopel from denmark and foreign countries,
and it have given me many funny and crazy
experinses. Everyone has a story to tell. Some
peopel have been visiting all through the
seasons I have been the owner of ASC. I know
their children, I hear their stories. Some
peopel go straight to my heart, and becomes
friends of me, other just sleep here for one
night, and I forget about them... but stories
and experinces there has been a lot off.
I am a girl, and many, (especially menn), will
for sure sign a dokument that says, girls talk
too much......, I think I also talk too much....
but I like to talk to peopel, to hear their
stories, and... to pass the stories. A german
man, Dirk, is one of the peopel I have meet here
at ASC. A real german,... as we danish, or at
least I, see the picture of a real german... the
barbecue is on, the sausages is next too, the
beer is near, the dog is by the feet, and the
apron is offcourse with the local footballteam
(Shalke04). He has become a dear friend. I think
he loves this place just as much as I do, and
when he speak about ASC, this is his 2. home. I
have talked a lot to Dirk, told him many of the
funny stories I have experince at the camp...
and in fact it’s him, who have told me several
times to write all these stories at the webpage.
This I will now try, to tell into cyberspace,
about everydaylife at a campsite.
The sun is always shining at Albuen.
Everyone there has visit ASC, have at some time
hear me say these words – The sun is always
shining at Albuen – and it does shine every
day... I stand by my words. I see the sun
everyday here at Albuen It might be only for a
few minutes, but I see the sun... EVERY DAY..!!!
Why and what it is that happends, I dont know.
If it’s because we’re so near to the water,
because of the dike or just because we’re here
at the southsea island ???? I dont know,... but
the sun, I see it every day !!! I have said that
so often, that my season-campists + some of the
tourist who comes here often, is now ”watching
me”. In fact, i think they now want to catch me
in a day without sun at Albuen.
Also this Withsun Saturday... The tradition for
Withsun Saturday is the yearly fishing
competition. The day started as usual at Withsun
Saturday morning, with bread, coffee and liquir
to the early starters of fishingmenn, but but
but then came the rain. All day long it has been
cloudy and raining, a real boring weather.. At
the finish of the fishingcompetition at 4 pm. it
was still a very wett and boring weather, but
disregard the rain, a lot of fish had been
catched... seaforrel, garfish(green bone) and
flatfish, but the rain and the clouds, they were
still here... and it did’nt seem to be any
changes in the weather... oh oh... today,
perhaps may be the day, where I have to eat my
words. – the sun is always shining at Albuen –
buuutttttt... I'm a optimistish soul, and the
day is’nt over yet, but I have to admit, yes ok,
today my words will fall to the ground... – Now
its evening, and I have just been to the beach.
There I have taken a picture of the most
beautifull sundown, ... cause here at Albuen the
weather was changing at the evening, the rain
and clouds has gone away, and I still stand by
my words – I see the sun every day here at
Albuen.
Fishing.
I have at some time heard that the coast of
Albuen is told to be the 3. best fishingcoast in
denmark... some fishingmagazine should have told
so... I have not seen or read this
fishingmagazine myself, but I get a lot of visit
from fishingmenn here at ASC. The fishingclub
from Roskilde area, they come here one time a
year, 6-7 collegs who spend a week in my
cabins... and go fishing... at the entire coast
at west lolland, and when they are back in the
cabins, they have joy with good eating and
making flyes for fishing. I know they
participate in fishingcompetitions over the
entire country, and every time I think, what a
fine time to spend their free time,... by
fishing. - Leif and Marie come here every spring
with the caravan. The caravan they leave here at
the camp for 4-5 weeks and then they come in the
weekends... and then Leif go fishing. John is
also a man who loves to fish, it takes only a
few minutes from john has parked the caravan,
until he is on his way to the beach in his green
fishingtrousers, ... and everytime John catches
fish.... almost everytime... The favorit fishing
spot is a few hundreds meters walk out at the
beach, just where it starts to turn... not after
the turn, and not closer to the P-place, but
just excatly there, where the beach is turning.
This is the place to fish for John. This excatly
place, I have now renamed to Johns Corner, it
makes it so much easyer to explain to the other
fishingmenn, where the fish stands. Because here
John is almost evertime catching fish... if its
allowed to talk and tell about the good
fishingplaces, I dont know, but I hope that
naming the place after John, he will forgive me
for telling. Ole also do a lot of fishing
together with the kids, but Ole like to drive to
the windmill area, because this is the place for
Ole to catch the fish.... the beach and Johns
Corner, there are no fish, so say Ole.
My german friend Dirk, is also fishing everytime
he is visiting, in his green trousers from the
beach or just from the P-area. Everytime he goes
to the beach to fish he tell me these words –
tonight we eat fish – but I have to say, only
one time I have seen fish catched by Dirk... 34
garfish(greenbone), but that was one of those
days, where everyone who was fishing, was
catching a lot of fish... and Dirk’s fishingbox
is not for newbeginners, I have seen the box.
Dubbel size of all other fishingboxes and full
of equipment, but fish... I dont know if he
forgets to put on hooks ???.. but all those
peopel I see fishing here at Albuen, the have
one thing in common. They all enjoy their
fishingtrips... when they are standing in
another world, in the shadows from the
windmills, at the P-area, or in their green
trouser out in the water... then they all have
one thing in commen.... to catch that fish..
MiniZOO
When I bought Albuen Strand Camping 3 years ago,
I also got 4 goats in the deal... those 4 goats
have now turn into a miniZoo. Now I have had
goats, rabbits, minipigs, ducks, horses and
chickens. The garden for the ziegen is now 3
times as big, I have build a stabel for the
horses and my big field is now grass with fence
around – Has someone already guess this ??? I
have a teenage daughter... Julie.
And Julie loves animals. All the animals has
their own names and julie remember all the names
and she can play music on the chickens... can
you believe !! when the chickens sits at their
”stock” in the stabel at night, Julie touches
them and they make different sounds, this is how
Julie play music on her chickens..!!! At this
moment I have 6 ziegen, 2 horses, 6 chickens
and 16 rabbits... the 2 ducks, fine white
moskus-ducks, I was given last summer, become
over summer to 15 ducks. 13 sweet small yellow
ducklings was swimming around in the top of a
bucket all through summer. They were so small
the ducklings that they could go through the
little holes in the fence and go on visit to the
campers... and who dont like visit from 13
little yellow ducklings ??? the duckling got a
lot of bread and over winter they grow up to be
big fat white ducks. But ducks makes a lot of
mess. It was’nt very funny when Sofie visit the
zoo this spring, of course there is some
goat-shit, but a zoo full of duck shit is not
very nice for Sofie’s mom to get into the
caravan. ... So I have to call Goat-Peter.. he
is the one I buy my animals from, and he is the
one who gets them back, when there is too much
animals. So Goat-Peter came this spring and took
all the white ducks. He also got all my fine
male-rabbits... this year I dont want any
rabbit-babies. !!! I remember all to well last
year, how quickly 4 sweet rabbit-babies, become
a big-commune and then they run off, the
rabbits, and they are not easy to catch again...
last winter 3 rabbits was living in the free,
under my cabins, and in earthcaves they have dig
in the fields.... I was not popular with my
famer-nabourghs... 2 of the rabbits, I cought,
but the last one who was living under a cabin, I
have to give up... in the eastern I put a price
for dkr 100,- to the kids at the campsite –
CATCH THE RABBIT - 4 smart kids spend their
entire easterholliday on rabbithunting, and they
got the rabbit. ... but even if Goat-Peter took
all the male-rabbits, there went only 4 days,
then come the first new rabbitbabies and after 8
days... the next rabbitbabies... but now I have
rebuild the rabbit-fenster, a lot taller... I
want to make sure they dont get out... and all
the kids who tells me how sweet the rabbits are,
I offer – for free – to get 2 rabbitkids with
them home from the holliday... Line has got 2
rabbitkids, a white one and a brown one og she
has got her grandpa to build a fine fenster to
the rabbits and Line has painted the fenster
herself... Line is very happy for her
rabbitkids, and I’m happy too.... now I’m
waiting for my new goat-babies, I rented a male
goat of Goat-Peter this spring... and one of the
horses is also waiting a baby... so my miniZoo,
I think soon I have to call it a maxiZoo....
Mr. Crocodille Dundee.
At the camp I get visit from many different
nationalities. Most peopel from Germany,
Nederland, Sweden and Norway... Copenhagen and
Jutland.. but also peopel from UK, Ireland,
France, Spain, Italy, Schwitzerland, Austia and
Poland is often guest here at the camp, even an
american lived her for more than a month... but
a guest from Down Under, Australia, that I would
never have guessed. When a autocamper drives
into my parking area, then it’s almost everytime
guests from foreign countryes, also this
autocamper. Into my reception enters Mr.
Crocodille Dundee... at first I didnt think
about, but when I was booking in Mr. C.D. in my
computer, the zipcode from the country, told me,
here was a guest from australia... could this be
right ??? I had to ask Mr. C.D. if he was realy
from Australia.... yes, my first day in
Scanidnavia, 1½ year in europe, and now I want
to see this country, Scandinavia.... oh ja,
bulls eye, I could here at the accent in the
language, here was Mr. C.D. himself, from Down
Under. .... buuuttttt, I had to correct him, and
tell, this was not his first day in the country
Scandinavia... but Denmark... we are still a
selfdepend country, a kingdom, we have our own
flag, we are not a part of Sweden or Norway...
but DENMARK... Mr. C.D. got a place at the camp,
and when evening come and I could close the door
to the reception, I simply had to take control
of my inquisitiveness... how do a Australian
mann, end up in Denmark,... in a autocamper ???
sooo with a my inquisitiviti, and fearless as I
am, I invited myself into the Australien
autocamper to visit Mr. Crocodille Dundee. ...2
years ago he quit his job, sold the house,
bought a autocamper and left home... His first
plan was 6 month in Europe and then 6 month in
USA... now he had been travelling in Europe for
1½ year, he had seen and experince a lot of, and
wanted to see the land Scandinavia in top of
Europa, before the trip took him to USA... I
told him about DENMARK, the woods in Sweden and
the high hills in Norway... 3 countries, Mr.
Crocodille Dundee, 3 countries... I had a real
nice evening in the company of Mr. C.D.. .. and
think about this, ..just to travel, see and
experince... Fantastic... and he even found my
small camp, thats incredibel.... sometimes I do
think of Mr. C.D. Has he finish his travelling,
.. is he back at home again, ...home Down Under
...
What’s to eat ???
At the camp there is everday busy, a lot to do,
but also many, short, brakes during the day...
as usual too short to start cooking, too short
to start the barbeque, too short to fix the
salad... so dinner, it’s often pizza from the
city.... at 22.00.... and then I’m very hungry
!!!.... It have give me some (not few) kilos the
first years... and those kind of kilos, that I
as a girl, absolutely dont like. - But now
I have the solution.... my son, Daniel, learned
it very quickly, ...when mom dont have time to
cook... he use his nose, take a little walk
around the camp... just around dinnertime, and
ahhhh it smells sooooo good, from so many
places...... what’s to eat today, ...and where
??? - Imagine, if I dare to do so !!! Daniel
dare !!!, he gets good cooking, hot cooking,
almost every day... my mom, dont have time to
cook, he says, and then Daniel gets good
eating... just following his nose... - Imagine if
i dare to do so ???... I have the Danish, the
German, the Italian, the French KITCHEN,
kitchen from almost around the world, right in
front of my nose..... Imagine if I dare to do,
just like Daniel.... :-))
2 bread, the daily news and a morning beer.
Every morning I start the Bake off oven around 6
o’clock and then I have to make bread, a lot of
bread... into the oven I put frozen bread and
out comes the wonderfull smellling bread. All
alone I’m there.. baking... while I’m thinking
of all my guest who can sleep long... at winter
I want to sleep long... very long... buutttt one
person is also up early, Preben, while I’m doing
the bakery, Preben is just arund the small lake,
checking all the ducks, is anyone missing ? and
then 10 minutes at the bench by the sea. Which
ships are sailing by today... a few minutes to
8, Preben make my flag go to the top, and he is
every day the first mann in the shop. 2 bread,
the daily news and a morning beer... every day
the same... and when all the other morningfresh
campers have collect their bread, its time for
me to get my coffee... and then I sit outside
with Preben. I have my coffee, Preben has his
morning beer, we speak about all, makes the
world go around, comment on the daily news and
tell stories, and Preben have a lot of
stories... all life he have been living his
life, up and down. Today he is 75. He is the
kind of mann who cant sit still, .... when I get
old, when time comes, then I shall do this and
this, so say many, but not Preben... He has been
living every day, full, made his choises in
life, took his chances in life..... ... I
love my mornings with Preben.
A summer full of rain..
What a summer...
where did it go, this summer 2007 ??? High-season is ended and I
have to think about what went well, what went bad, what can I do
better for next season ??? My first issue = summer weather... How
do I order 6 weeks with sunshine, blue sky, 25 degrees, and light
wind from west and a little bit of rain during night, so the grass
doesn’t turn into yellow in beginning of July... Even the best
intentions and my everlasting optimistic soul can’t solve this
problem. To run a campsite which is placed directly under the sky -
day and night -, is not so easy, when the God of the weather isn’t
kind to me. Don Ø did something: He installed a roof to pull on
and off the stadium of FCK.... but….., 20 acres under the roof ??
... No, this is too much, even for me, and what about the sun and
the heat ???. Well, I’m not known for complaining too much, and
don’t want to start to be... The heat has been here last summer,
there was just not enough sun to enjoy the beach. And after all, I’m
lucky that the campsite is build on old sea-area, the rain
disappears within the ground just as quickly as it comes from the
heaven. I have no problems with mud at the camp. I don't have to use
a tractor to bring the caravans in and out. My area is plain and
dry, only the road can collect some water now and then... and the
camping people are also tough people. There is no bad weather, only
wrong outfit, so say most of my guests, although I do believe that
many would have loved to change the rubber boots and umbrellas with
their bikini and sun crème last summer. My guests have been sitting
in their tents and in the cabins and played games, and when the sun
has been shining from above for a few minutes... (Oh yes I still
stand to my words, I have seen the sun every day
J
) ...then my guests run out and have enjoyed the few minutes of sun.
But it is strange to have a full campsite, high season, strange to
know here are around 6-700 people at the camp, but the sound of life
and fun which is usual at the camp has been missing last year. It
has been like a ghost-camping. How can I do this better this year
??? Well.. I guess all I can do is to hope and dream of a summer,
full of sunshine in 2008.
But as I already said: I do have an optimistic soul and I believe
also in my tough guests – and a lot of them will return…
Summer fun
Every summer I arrange Summer fun-evenings at Albuen. I do wish to
develop and make new stuff at the camp every year, but one thing I
do not dare to change... John and Kenneth... if I do, I’m sure
someone would capture my head....
John and Kenneth are those whom entertain at my karaoke evenings...
John is like Richard Ragnwald and Kenneth are like the very charming
Robbie Williams, and they sing just like these... John knows all the
good old Danish songs and the charming Kenneth can sing Robbie’s
Angel so well that my skin freeze and my heart starts beating, very
fast ...and I’m in love.... be sure...
Those 2 guys can if any make the campers go party,
and even if most campers are rather shy in the beginning of the
evening, then they all sing, and I do mean ALL, before the evening
is ended... most of the campers know, that if they don’t sing, then
their Campingmutter starts to sing FCK football songs... and I can’t
sing, absolutely can’t sing, ... so within a short time all the
campers wolentier to sing :-)
Most of the campers enjoy the singing, with all the fun and party it
is, and they let go, completely... others really take it
seriously... this are normally the campers from Jutland... and some
can really sing... like Brian from Køge, mannnnnn that man could
sing... American idol, Brian, American idol..!!!!...
As the night comes, even Germans can sing along the Old Danish
slagermusic... oh yeah, John and Kenneth can make the party go
on....
The kids also like to sing and dance... Campus, the big beaver,
usually comes by and do the boogie woogie dance with the children...
then John and Kenneth have a little break while Campus is
dancing.... but the funniest is yet to come, later in the evening,
Campus join us again, and now it’s time for the adult to dance....
and for me, the campingmutter of Albuen, this is absolutely the
biggest laugh of the year, to see 50 adults or more dancing around
to child music with a big beaver.....
:-)
Sooooooooo my summerfun-evenings I do not dare to change,.... a
summer evening, with happy tourist’s, good entertainment, music and
dance, cold beers, hot popcorn, and at last but not at least John
and Kenneth... These evenings have become a part of the Albuen
spirit...
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