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...

Blommenslyst: The Old Road West of Odense

Blommenslyst sits just west of Odense, on the old route across Funen towards Middelfart. Today it is easy to treat it as little more than part of the outskirts of the city, but the road running through it tells most of the story of why the settlement developed here in...

Back in Vejle: Our Second Visit

We returned to Vejle about a month after our first visit in July. This time it was part of the journey south from Horsens towards Fredericia, so we already knew roughly what to expect and did not need to spend half the visit working out where everything was. Our first...

Ullerslev: A Former Railway Town on Eastern Funen

Ullerslev is a small town between Nyborg and Odense, and it is very easy to cross without realising that its present shape is largely the result of two completely different periods of development. The original village was farther north, along the old main road between...

Båring: A Simple Beach Stop on Funen

    After Middelfart we continued through western Funen and stopped at Båring, a small place where the main reason to stop is not the village itself but the coast. Båring Strand lies inside Båring Vig, a broad bay on the north side of Funen, and compared...