Walpurgis Night (Valborgsaften) Museum Herregården Hessel

We often head up to Herregården Hessel during the spring and summer seasons. It's a 20-minute drive heading south on the coast road overlooking the Limfjord.

Hessel is a 600-year-old manor farmhouse built after the Black Death in 1391. The buildings now standing date from the 18th century, and it remains pretty much unchanged and decorated as it would have been in the late 1800s. Beautiful.

This month, on Walpurgis Night (Valborgsaften), the 30th of April, they welcome in the summer with bonfires, community singing, coffee and stories from the Louns peninsula (the area where the Manor is situated). Thorkild Nielsen tells stories about his life with the Sirius Patrol, carrying out surveillance on dog sledges in Greenland over winter.

In addition, Bodil Nymark, founder of the Snaps Guild at Hessel, presents an updated version of her classic snaps book, 'Krydderurtesnapse'.

It doesn't get more Danish than that. 🇩🇰