Day 44 – Art and Ancestry

Journey: Lisbjerg – Aarhus

For some reason Mark was up at the crack of dawn pottering about, folding clothes, hunting for stuff and inevitably waking me up. I went for a 4min shower – seriously campsite people, I have long hair and hairy legs both of which need to be addressed preferably in a hot power shower for unlimited time…is it too much to ask? Evidently yes 🙈😂

Anyway clean once more we drove on to Aarhus and took the pups for a lovely walk around the botanical garden. I’d put Mark in charge of today – he organised a great day of activities and only got us lost a couple of times. The funniest was trying to get back into the gardens where he completely missed the huge greenhouses and sign…pretty big clues…I followed him in the wrong direction for a few steps then pointed them out. He will happily confess navigation is not his strong point.

The pups then rested while we got an iced coffee from a lovely cafe called Folkhaven and went to the Aros art museum which has an amazing rainbow panoramic view on the roof. There were so many interesting art pieces, sculptures and immersion pieces. I was lying down in one and saw Mark come in and walk into the wall…in his defence it was dark 😂 As part of an exhibit they had some table tennis tables, which we had a few games on…until I hit the security guard twice with the ball and had to concede I’m rubbish at it. Was fun though 😄

It was later my turn to be incompetent when I was so busy trying to photo a sculpture I tripped over the steps of the royal casino and landed on my bum 😂🙈

We picked the pups up and walked them around the Latin quarter and down to the harbour where Ernest could play in the water fountains. He is 6 months old today, 21 kilos and his father is 30… I’ve also seen photos of his grand parents and mother’s parents. We are going to have a big boy on our hands. Mark is thrilled 😜

From there we went to a big bizarre which was like a middle eastern market and picked up lots of fresh food – it was definitely different to the usual Aldi shop and cheaper to. 

Spoiling the dogs we drove on to another park Mindeparkem. The royal family were in residence at Marselisborg Slot so we weren’t able to go into the palace grounds but we could see it from a distance and the surrounding park was lovely – I say this despite racing around it as quick as I could because I was freezing having failed to put a coat on…the heat wave is seemingly over up here.

Thinking about camp spots Mark said he fancied looking at the Moesgaared Museum as it’s a very striking building architecturally. He originally wasn’t that fussed about going in but as it was open until 8pm we changed our minds and it is an outstanding museum, one of the best I’ve ever been in! It covers the history of man, is so high tech with VR, multiple immersive rooms, video and sound recordings as well as fascinating artifacts including 3 of the best preserved prehistoric people in the world (even the way they were displayed was so respectful). We only had 2 hours and I wish we had had twice that time.

We have a habit of arriving at places just as things are about to happen and tonight people were gathering for a theatre show off King Edward in the grounds. Part of me was tempted to attend thinking it would be much like an opera not understanding any of it but absorbed by the theatre of it. However that was quite an expensive punt so instead we are still in the carpark listening to it in the van…the music, the foreign language, cackles of laughter, the wind blowing – it still feels dramatic.