When Anne Mette and I met in my flying club in Holbæk Friday afternoon, the sun finally came out of the clouds. Parking lot was covered in beautiful autumn-coloured leaves, and the skies were blue.
We were so happy we eventually got a chance to get airborne together!
It was otherwise overcast at low altitude, like 800 feet, but late afternoon in Holbæk it was supposed to clear up – and it did!
We came by the Dragsholm Castle, which today has a hotel and a gourmet restaurant. The castle is also known for the white lady ghost living there:
A story goes, during a renovation in 1910, a skeleton was coincidentally found in a walled niche at the 800-year-old Dragsholm Castle. The skeleton was of Celestine Mariann de Bayonne Gyldenstierne, who disappeared at the castle around 1550.
Her father had chosen a nobleman for the beautiful girl. But Celestine was deeply in love with a stable boy, who even made her pregnant, and her father became furious. He said he wanted to deport his daughter to Schleswig so she could give birth to the child there. However, just before leaving, she was anesthetized, and – wearing her white dress – walled inside a niche where she could just stand upright. The residents of the castle could hear her moaning and scratching on the wall, but no one dared to react. Today, Celestine is known as the White Lady, and she is especially said to show interest in sleeping men.
At Dragsholm Castle, one can see the Celestine’s earthly remains on display in a glass case.
Our intention was to fly around and look at the many different castles and manor houses in the area:
But neither Anne Mette nor me could locate them – we are blondes after all! 🙂 So we quickly gave up, and simply enjoyed flying. The Asnæs Power Station in Kalundborg:
The power plant is now able to supply electricity and heat without burning fossil fuels, as it uses sustainable fuel.
The Church of Our Lady in Kalundborg, with its 5 towers (in the centre above); built approx. in the beginning of 13th century.
Though it was quite misty, we were lucky to experience the sunset and its beautiful soft colours from air that afternoon.
But the stunning thing that afternoon wasn’t the sunset. After the sun went down, the skies in the opposite direction turned bright blue over that low level cloud mass covering northeast of Zealand:
It was so unusual, special and beautiful! We spent some time flying over terrain and over water, trying to get many good pictures of that alluring light.
It was getting dark quickly, and after watching the lights turning on in the towns and on the streets for a while, we landed.
We were only airborne for about an hour and a half, but filled up with all those wonderful experiences for much longer time!
