Things I remember about Denmark
Beautifully carved stones outside many properties . Some with just a street number. Some with a name
Libraries with card access for any Danish citizens even outside opening hours . Roadsides with hardly a scrap of rubbish.Being able to leave your bike outside a supermarket without worrying about it being pinched. NO beggars. Yes we love Denmark !
Aha ! The ships are in churches because around 1700 when many churches were being built, it was the wealthy shipping merchants that paid for the building of them. Sort of like sponsorship advertising
Lots of metal today and my tyre gave up the ghost . Bought a new one at Rodekro.
A little south we came across 'Landsting' this has been a most significant site for Denmark since the Middle Ages. The King would meet with his people of lower Jutland and discuss their problems here.
Any Dane starting on a pilgrimage to Rome, Trondheim or Santiago de Compostello was told to start from here. On 1st June each year hundreds of people meet here to celebrate Founding day. Those stones are memorials to each King since 1067
The same area down to Padborg has some ancient bridges
This one was rebuilt in 1800
These 2 are at least 200 years older. 15-1600
Imagine coming off those with not a car in sight to suddenly coming across this bridge
YUK !
Just out of Padborg the trail goes through the middle of the best preserved POW camp from WW2.in Europe. Froslev .
It held 12,000 inmates,mostly Danish resistance fighters , (and anyone who voted labour)was tossed in here for the duration . After the war the camp had a name change, Farhus. and there was a judicial purge . The boot was on the other foot and all traitors were then put in here😇
It's now an excellent museum.
We still have some Danish kroner left so tonight we'll stay this side of the border and cross into Germany tomorrow morning. The first place we came across was a truck stop . CHOICE !
Cheap rooms, clean , nice big meals and I can sit and watch the trucks come and go
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