Daytona Beach Move Over - Sunday July 18, 2010

Daytona Beach Move Over - Sunday July 18, 2010

Today we decided to drive into Denmark, a distance of only 5 km to the border. No border check point or inspection booth - the border was simply a few flags along the highway and we were in. The landscape is flat, flat, flat with more wheat fields and sheep and cattle than we could have imagined - again like the Canadian prairies. The nearest city inside the border is Tonder just off the highway but we wanted to visit the island of Romo, another 25 km approx. to the north west and just off the coast. Unlike Sylt, it is connected though to the mainland by a vehicle causeway that is about 10 km long. Once on the island we saw a sign for internet café so we took advantage of 15 min. of time there to check our e-mails from home. The island is about 25 km long and 12 km wide. We drove south along the mainland side as far as possible then turned west to the ocean side. As we approached the west side we could see in the distance what appeared to be another dyke to hold the ocean back. As we drove up onto the top we could hardly believe our eyes. On the other side was a very wide sandy beach with small patches of water scattered throughout. What was more surprising was that cars, campers, motorcycles and bicyclers were driving up and down the beach much like we did years ago in Daytona Beach but there the strip was maybe 4 cars wide max. It was obvious that the tide had gone out several hours earlier leaving a smooth solid driving surface. The beach stretched all the way across to another island 3 - 4 km away. Many vehicles were driving across to the second island and it appeared some were wind surfing over there with 3 wheeled buggy type contraptions with rubber tired wheels. Many of these contraptions were mounted vertically on the back of the car on the trailer hitch - these were actual manufactured 3 wheeled wind sail buggies. No we did not rent one to try it out. We decided not to drive across (Jean would not let me for fear we would sink) but instead rode our bikes up and down the beach roadway for a short distance. The wind was very strong and it was tough going but coming back was easier. Cars were driving north along the sandy beach so we decided to see how far we could go. After driving probably 10 km the wide beach began to be lined with many more cars and campers especially out close to the waters edge. In places the beach was at least a km wide out to the water - smooth and solid sand. Cars were criss-crossing in every direction. We never did see the end of it. At one point we saw many cars heading away from the beach and it turned out to be the road to the internet café where we had been earlier. We then drove the road to the north end of the island as it was only a couple km further.
Once off the island we stuck to shoreline back roads and saw some very interesting farms and scenery through the Danish countryside and little towns.
After trying many locations for internet hot spots back in Niebull, we finally found a very weak one and were able to catch up on several blogs but it was too weak to upload photos so will have to add those tomorrow at the library hopefully.
After supper we headed out on the bikes for a ride to Bosbull about 6 km away. According to the little odometer on my bike, we have biked over 475 km so far in Europe.