Dalen 9, Strand Esbønderup

In beautiful North Zealand, you can move your summer holidays and long weekends to this attractive holiday-home area, which boasts Tinkerup and Smidstrup Strand, green spaces and the north coast’s market town, Gilleleje. 

What you will lose your hearts to here is the classic holiday-home atmosphere, with timber façades and a matching wood-clad interior, a wood-burning stove and even room for laundry facilities, so you can make a spontaneous decision to stay a couple of extra days if the weather calls for more dips in the Kattegat. You will unwind in 79 inviting square metres that do a fine job of letting the light in. An open-plan kitchen-diner unfolds with an adjoining living room: you reach the living areas through double French doors, and the home starts off practical and smart in the entrance hall and is just as bright and smart in the spacious bathroom, which has electric underfloor heating, and in the living room. There are two rooms here in the main house, and you get another three rooms beside it, in the same attractive style as the rest of the holiday home. 

A lovely south-west-facing stone terrace links the indoor and outdoor spaces beautifully, with both a covered section and full sun calling for buckets of sun cream – from brunch through an afternoon with a book to the crisp salads and rare steaks of barbecue evenings. The surroundings are pleasantly green, with large lawns that make the garden easy to look after, and it is also perfect for a game of football or kubb. All of it framed by flowering shrubs bursting with colour and well-kept hedging. 

You can stroll or cycle down to Tinkerup Strand, which boasts a Blue Flag and is also a good bet for anglers. The long stretch of coastline also offers good paths with high viewpoints, and that way you can actually walk all the way to lively Gilleleje, with its harbour atmosphere and the cafés and charming independent shops that go with it in this buzzing summer town. And if you turn west on Smidstrup Strand, or stay on Tinkerup Strand, world-class sunsets await. 

Welcome to the Danish summer at its very best!