Arriving by train around noon from Copenhagen, our group settled into the hotel - rather failingly themed like a cruise-liner - ate lunch, and met to tour the Aarhus Town Hall, designed by architects Arne Jacobsen and Erik Moller and built in the late 1930s. Very modern for its time and place of construction - 1930s Scandinavia - it was met with controversy, but stands as a unique piece of architecture. While the exterior looks like poured concrete blocks, it is actually granite, and the interior consists of white hallways and wood panels, including a ballroom with a wooden floor.

We then walked over to the Museum of Contemporary Art for a quick look in the lobby. On the way there, we passed what was possibly the most disgustingly bizarre piece of public art that I have yet to see - a sow and piglets fountain. Only the water for the fountain was being produced by the sow drooling, and one of the piglets, erm, peeing. No rhyme or reason, just quietly sitting on the side of the public square behind the town hall.

The Museum of Contemporary Art consisted of a long, ramping lobby, with a gift shop and cafe to one side, and the spiral housing the exhibits on the other, all in whitewashed concrete.

Becky and I walked back through the city, looking in a small church on the way back, and missing another by a few minutes. We stayed the night in our tight quarters, and took off again for Copenhagen in the morning.