Glimsholt Å

Today had been a travel day heading north from Copenhagen to Frederiskshavn. The journey has taken about 6 hours plus stops. We stopped at a town called Odense which has a population of around 190,000 and is the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen. We wandered past his first home and also checked out the town centre where we had a very delicious smoothy. The town was very nice and easy to walk around however they are doing some major earthworks in the middle of town. Not sure what they were building. It it was quite substantial. We have noticed a lot of construction in Denmark. In Copenhagen they are building 17 new metro stations and a new metro circuit for the city. This meant the main town square was half blocked off for the construction works.

Apparently there are over 30 million pigs in Denmark and there is an abattoir that is fully automated which slaughters 20,000 pigs per week. We also drove past the Vestas Plant, Vestas is the first manufacturer of wind turbines starting in 1979 and the very first one is located next to their plant. Denmark manufactures 1/3 of the worlds wind turbines and 40% of Denmark's energy comes from the wind turbines that are located all across the country.

Denmark is also a world leader in insulin production and produces 1/2 the worlds insulin.

These are just some of the interesting facts we learnt during the trip.

We have found the countryside to be very beautiful, it is undulating but there are no mountains, the highest elevation is only 150 metres above sea level.

Along the drive we crossed the Great Belt Bridge which is the Third largest suspension bridge in the world. It's total length is 6.8 kilometres with the longest span being 1.6 kilometres. It's a very impressive bridge. It's expensive to travel over, the toll is 240DKK or about $50.

When we arrived at Frederickshavn we'd had enough of the bus and wanted to have a beer so we adjourned to the Old Irish Pub next door. Bec, Luke and Adrian joined us for a couple of pints. The beers were the cheapest so far on the holiday so we took advantage of that prior to heading to dinner. Dinner was part of the tour and it was tasty but not really substantial but I guess we've eaten too much over the last couple of weeks so a smaller meal was probably ok.

We have an early start tomorrow, bags out at 6.15am as we need to get to the ferry to Oslo so we've pulled stumps on the day.Read more