Back in Flensburg for the Third Time

By the time we reached Flensburg again, it was our third visit and the city no longer felt like a new destination. That is one of the strange things about travelling for a long time. A place that originally required maps, parking searches and constant checking...

Denmark by Motorhome: What We Actually Thought

After spending a large part of the summer travelling around Denmark, our opinion of the country ended up being much more complicated than the usual picture of Copenhagen, bicycles and tidy Scandinavian villages. We saw Denmark slowly, in a motorhome, which means...

Hejls: From an Old Village to the Border at Hejlsminde

Hejls is only a few kilometres from Christiansfeld, but the two places have almost nothing in common. Christiansfeld was deliberately designed in the eighteenth century as a Moravian settlement; Hejls is an older Danish village whose history is tied much more closely...

Christiansfeld: A UNESCO Town Built Around an Idea

  Christiansfeld was one of the stranger stops of our journey through Denmark, mainly because our first reaction did not match what we expected from a UNESCO World Heritage town. We did not find it especially beautiful or scenic in the conventional sense, and the...

Vissenbjerg: Hills, Ice Age Landscapes and Old Robber Stories

From the flatter country west of Odense, Vissenbjerg is a noticeable change. We reached it while travelling east through Funen, after the stops around Aarup and before continuing towards Odense. During that part of the route we checked two possible stopping places in...