Hi guys and welcome back! This week we're checking out "Old Town" which "Den Gamle By",
it's an outdoor museum, a live museum I guess that's what it's called. I made a video from here a year ago
maybe two and that was during the summer so that's kind of like a more
detailed look into what Gamle By is but it's centrally located in Aarhus where I
live and I love coming here and for my birthday my friends actually pitched in
and they gave me like a year pass
Max, we're going on a carriage ride! Let's go!
We're here in the carriage! It's very bumpy
We started out with a carriage ride and I've never tried that before so
dad was like: "there's not a lot of things you haven't tried so we have to do it!" I agree
You remember my dad from Austria we traveled together to Salzburg
So if you're interested I'll link those videos up below and we are entering the bakery
The bakery is my favorite place that in the toys museum in this
whole museum they have delicious honey hearts in there let's go try those out
Is it good? Yeah, it tastes very good!
This dude over here he's calling himself a Yeller so he's walking around with
like a stick with a mistletoe bein and holding it over people so they can kiss
it's kind of funny! Dad asked him what he did and he said well when I start
doing what I do is you'll know because it's yelling I guess kind of loud
It says on this sign that this is the history of Christmas so they must have a
good exhibit in here let's check it out
Max is not in the best mood today he's a little bit fussy so now I'm
wearing him and carrying him around, and he's eating a lot of "æbleskiver". You like it?
It's getting dark so I really hope you can
still see something on this footage. We are very close to the winter solstice
which is on the 21st of December and that is actually where Christmas in
Denmark comes from because originally in Denmark it's called "Jul" so you might
know the expression Yuletide I've heard that mentioned a lot of
times and I'm pretty sure that comes from the Scandinavian word of
celebrating Jul. It's originally a celebration we've had here for thousands
of years and it was about drinking Jul. So it involved a lot of "mjød" which is an
alcoholic drink a lot of Julelege, which is like Christmas games, and they
were a lot of times had an erotic undertone which is kind of funny so it
started like an excuse to really let loose a little bit in Scandinavia around
that time and then later Christianity was added to that and it became all
about Jesus I'm not a historian but I've heard that historians are pretty sure that
Jesus was actually born closer to April because the sheep would not be outside
needing to be herded around December so they are pretty sure that they actually
picked this date because they could just kind of take the party though and the
celebration that was already going on and then add it as a Christmas thing so
who knows maybe Christmas is in December because all the viking
solstice celebrated Jul already. It's kind of funny, now again I'm not
a historian but this is what I've heard and I've heard it mentioned a lot of
times so it might be true we're enjoying the fire show they have that in December
every weekend as well and hopefully we're gonna check out the merchandise
store and the toy museums which my favorites but it's getting dark soon
Hey guys I hope you like checking out Gamle By with us. This is one of my favorite places to go to and I
try to go every year and now that I have a year pass I'm going to be going a lot
in 2018 I'm really excited! If you liked it give it a thumbs up and share it with
your friends it helps me reach a lot more people and all there is left to say
is Merry Christmas we'll see you in 2018