My Travel blog

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....

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...

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 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...

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 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...

    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...