On my last day in Denmark, I didn't really have time to go far. My flight was at 7.10pm so I thought I'd have a look at Aalborg. I'd spotted the fjord on the bus on the way back from Skagen and the route seemed very simple so off I went, all my luggage on my back. June 5th is a bank holiday in Denmark so everything was closed. That was ok. I'd been in a few shops and I had enough food to last and the 7Eleven at the station would be open for bits and pieces. I ...

On Monday morning, I started with breakfast of as many rolls as I could eat, a bowl of cereal and more apple juice than a human being should be able to drink and then went to the station. I planned to go to the beach and that required me to go to Frederikshavn. I thought the trains were quite regular but according to the board, I'd have to wait an hour and a half for one. Either that, or take a rail replacement bus and given the choice, I thought I'd look at Aa...

It has been a very long day. I started off quite late, all my luggage on my back, wandering Odense, looking for the canal where you can go on the boat. Not because i wanted to go on any boats but i wanted to find it. That took a while, wandering the back streets and then following the river. By the time I reached the lock (where there was a sculpture of a horse in the river, a horse with frilly fins, a river-horse, therefore an actual hippopotamus, I'd realised...

I was woken at just after four this morning by a crashing noise and what I took to be a bright flash of light, convinced a bomb had gone off. It hadn't, of course - strange noises happen at night and there had been no flash of light, just very bright sunlight through thin curtains far too early in the morning. It was only as I was leaving that I discovered there are blackout blinds on the windows. I got myself to the station, managed to navigate the automatic t...

Despite the drunk Danes outside the window and the tap completely drying up before I'd brushed my teeth and the pillow being too puffy, I did manage to sleep last night. My plan for today was to get up to Rosenborg Slot. The sun was bright through my windows when I woke up so I put on my light trousers, rolled up, and just a t-shirt, smothered myself in suncream and went out. Only to find that because Denmark is in Scandinavia, it really wasn't too hot outside....