Monday 19th May Just one more day at Burgstaaken, finally cornering tradesmen to pay what we owed, cycling into Burg - an attractive and vibrant town providing almost everything you could wish for which even at this early stage was buzzing with holiday makers, then saying goodbyes to people we had got to know. I had learnt that shaking hands with Ernst the crane-master had the same effect on the bones in the hand as an iron vice but you know what I mean, there's ...

Blog 15 Hesnæs, Klintholm, Rødvig, Denmark A change of plan, a change of tempo. The Danish Islands have that effect, there is a sense of peace and tranquillity. I am reminded from my time here back in the late 90's that this comes with the ethos pervading the Danish nature - to make time for the things that matter in life and to value freedom, nature and human needs. True, there were times when this conflicted with what I thought was important, like findin...