Biking in Denmark - Monday July 19, 2010
Monday July 19, 2010
A bit of a frustrating morning. We had hoped to get e-mails at the library in Niebull when it opened this morning but when we got in there and logged in, within just a few minutes my computer ran out of battery - seems someone forgot to plug it back in after robbing the converter plug to charge his shaver. So it was back “home“ to plug it in and get on with our day.
On Sunday we had driven through the village of Holjer in Denmark on the way to the island of Romo. It caught our eye and we said we must come back and ride our bikes through the village and explore some trails nearby. After parking beside the church in town, we rode bikes over to an old style Dutch windmill museum near the centre of town. It was built in 1857 to grind flour and you could see on the inside how wind power was used. A sign beside the mill said that we were on the North Sea Cycle Route a joint co-operation of Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Netherlands, England and Scotland. We followed that route north for about 10 km then returned partly following the route and leaving the trail at times when it turned at times to gravel. It wound through farmland , through villages and along the dyke. At one point we rode up onto the dyke and looked at a sluce that allows them to control the water level into the farmland. At another point the trail went out to the North Sea. According to their map, the trail follows the ocean all the way north through Denmark into Sweden.
Arrived “home” for a brief nap them I rode back to the library in Niebull to catch up on the blog and answer some e-mails.
In the morning I was able to log on long enough to send an e-mail to Annika our contact person - we are staying with her grandparents here in Klixbull. We had decided to try to sell our bikes here in Germany rather than paying the high cost of shipping them back to Canada. When I returned from the library, Annika and Andre were at her grandparents - they test/rode the bikes and decided to buy them from us. That was fast and we are grateful to them for buying our bikes. She and her grandparents have been very helpful is making our visit here to Schlesweg/Holstein in Northern Germany most enjoyable. We told them that this is the best of facilities we have experienced while in Europe these 8 weeks - would highly recommend them if anyone is planning a visit here.
