Faxe Limestone Quarry

I woke at 6 am to a beautiful sunny morning and I decided to do something special for the boys and I, so we got up and at 9 am we started the 1 hour drive to Faxe Limestone Quarry.

Faxe Limestone Quarry is an amazing place - it is stunningly beautiful. Everything is bright white or deep blue. Magnificent colours everywhere around you. 

The Visit Denmark website says: "Those who go down into the quarry, find themselves on a 63 million year old seabed, where sharks, crocodiles and squids swam among lovely corals. These, along with countless other accumulated sea creatures and plant organisms, formed the limestone. Corals, shark's teeth, crabs and mussel shells are among the many fossils held by the limestone.The limestone was used for centuries as building material. In olden times, the farmers dug smaller lime pits, which were refilled after the limestone was broken up. Only in the mid-18th Century a primary quarry established by the manors Vemmetofte, Bregentved, Rosendal and Gavnø.
In year 1900, 200 workers were employed by the limestone quarry. A quarry worker usually came from a family of quarry workers. He began working in the quarry, when he got married. With a bit of luck, by the age of 40-50, he could save enough money to buy a small farm."

We walked for 1½ hours and it was wonderful. There are lots of pictures on Flickr.

On the way home, we stopped on our training field and I had my first training session with Hero since we returned from England. We needed a break after the intense training prior to Crufts.

See you tomorrow
Emmy and the Hazyland Boys