Another hay bale person, announcing the sale of Strawberries (Erdbeeren). I think this was a U-Pick.
A house under construction, interesting (at least to me) because they are using Styrofoam blocks filled with concrete for the basic structure and then adding brick facing.First glimpse of the Baltic Sea (Howachter Bucht or Bay).
If you look carefully at the far field, you see pairs of tractor wheel tracks. They use these for access instead of putting roads in the fields, maximizing the crops. And it looks nice when done well.
Crossing the bridge to Fehrmarn Island, with the ferry terminal at Puttgarden
There are ferries every 1/2 hour all day for a 45 minute ride, so there are lots of ferries. Here's one of the others, similar to the one we're on.
One of the open water wind farms, on the Danish side.
Hardly a breeze can get through there without getting picked up by a turbine.
Docking in Denmark
One of our first bike paths. This is a 2 way version for bikes only. Note the dotted line.
In Germany and the Netherlands cities, bike paths were often designated with red bricks in the sidewalk. Here, they use a solid white line to separate humans and bikes.
Our Hotel in Sakskobing. The hotel name (Hotel Saxkjobing) is spelled differently than the town name.
It's not a big town. This is the main square.
An after dinner walk up a street in search of some ice cream. Didn't find any - it's Saturday night, they've rolled up the town and apparently I walked in the wrong direction.
Note the church - the arrangement of the windows (eyes & mouth), clock (nose) and lines in the brickwork (cheeks) kind of gives it an astonished or worried expression.
Also, check out the first white house on the right. The 3 windows to the right of the door are not aligned, almost in an arc. I don't now if this is wall settling, or intentional.
I notice some of the oddest things, eh?
A little further up the street is this park or cemetery. It's walled off with a 3 foot wall and a locked gate, so I didn't get nosey.
Another street - this one seems to have more upscale houses. I walked up another that was tree lined and all the houses were set back far enough for front yards and grass.
The architecture isn't strikingly different than what I've seen in the previous countries, but there is an different feeling here. Perhaps it's me being apprehensive because I can't speak a word of Danish. No problem though, because many of them know enough English to sort us out.
A bit of bad news. We were warned prices are expensive over here. Two 1/2 litre draft beers set me back over $19 Canadian. This is due to the Danish tax system. Apparently, if you want to buy a lot of beer for a party it is cheaper to buy Danish beer in Germany and bring it back over on the ferry instead of buying it here. We saw at least one car on the ferry fully loaded with beer.
Off to Copenhagen tomorrow. We are having a big wind up dinner, so I might not be writing anything until the next day.
