Coming south from Flensburg, Rendsburg was a very different kind of stop. The old centre is there, but the reason the city interested us was much more obvious from a distance: the enormous steel railway bridge over the Kiel Canal and the ships passing underneath it....
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...
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 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 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...
