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“ Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now”…

Also, perseverance is rewarded. This was the case today! After two long rides with intermittent hard rains and big headwinds, we road 114km with 28km/hr tailwind for 110 of those kilometres!…and no rain! It was a cycling dream ride on smooth rolling roads through farm country.

On The Road: 114 km/72 miles I Elevation 490metres/1,608 ft

This morning was sunny and 10C and after a huge buffet breakfast, we set out on our last ride in Denmark, to the northern tip of the country. The hotel had various vitamins and supplements on one end of the buffet table, in case guests forgot theirs!

We left Aalborg this morning and headed north over the bridge out of the city towards Lindholm Hoje museum, where we visited the ancient burial grounds. This was just 6km outside the city of Aalborg.

The Limfjord fjord was a kind of Viking motorway providing easy, speedy access to the Atlantic for longboat raiding parties. It’s not surprising, then, that the most important piece of Aalborg’s historical heritage is a predominantly Viking one.

The atmospheric Lindholm Høje is a Viking burial ground where nearly 700 graves from the Iron Age and Viking Age are strewn around a hilltop pasture ringed by a wall of beech trees.

Many of the Viking graves are marked by stones placed in the oval outline of a Viking ship, with two larger end stones as stem and stern. At the end of the Viking era the whole area was buried under drifting sand and thus preserved until modern times. A huge number of Viking artefacts were found in tact, which gave scholars much information about the Viking Age.

Heading towards Denmark’s most northern tip where the Baltic sea meets the North Sea (known as the Skain), for our last ride on Danish soil, passing through treelined roads through beautiful forests and witnessing very unique landscape of dunes with lyme grass and rose hip bushes.

A picnic lunch on the seashore in a tiny fishing village amongst the sand dunes

After just getting in before more rain blew in, we will rest tonight at Ruths Hotel on the beachfront just outside of Skagen for our last night on Danish soil before we embark on our Norwegian journey to Alesund.  The northern tip of Denmark is literally just steps away at the confluence of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea (aka Skain sea)

Dinner tonight in the hotel

At 10:40 PM…

At 11:15 PM !!

at 11:45 PM!!

Midnight in Skagan!!

I have to go to bed! This is why we were told to bring eye blinders to cover our eyes!
Tomorrow is a long day but very short on the bike, 50km to the ferry terminal and we have ferry ride #2 for 3 1/2 hours to Tonsberg Norway, getting in around 7 pm. Then we will have our first full rest day.

Life is Good in Skagan!

LIFE IS GOOD IN Skagan Denmark!