Another Summer House (Jutland!)
In my previous Summer House post, I explained how we were able to win these cool summer houses for a very low cost through work. At the summer house on Fyn, Zac couldn't join us, but he was all in for summer house #2 in Thy National Park! This was the summer house we really wanted because it's located in Thy National Park! The park is situated along the coast of the North Sea in the Nordjylland /North Jutland region of Denmark. I think it's best known for being the home of the migrating sand dunes. Historically, the sand dunes were in constant motion, destroying buildings and lighthouses and stuff as they migrated inland, so plantations were created to try to halt the movement of the landscape a little and protect the homes. Lots of trees were planted to secure the ground, and native grasses and hardy shrubs were able to move in. Many of the trees didn't make it, but you can still see a lot of them, and the dunes, relatively still now, are mostly covered in hardy, low v...