Journey: Layby – Middlefart – Modun – Odense – Stillinge Strand
Shock horror Mark wanted to drive! Minus a tiny bump of the wing mirror the old fart did really well and we arrived 30minutes later in Middlefart, accompanied by a stinky fart from little fart (Ernest). We spent the morning at a lovely ceramics museum, had the obligatory coffee and cake and enjoyed the various exhibits. Mabel was confused by their sofa…it lacked the usual soft bounce. Pottery has always been a skill I’d love to learn as I love the freedom it gives to create form, glazes, art, or a humble but beautiful favourite mug. In choosing what we brought with us on the trip, we each brought a handcrafted mug made by a Norfolk potter – I get quite sentimental thinking of the time and effort gone into something that makes my bedtime hot chocolate that extra bit special.
From there we drove to Modun as my friend Anna had told me you could see Bison. We found a Bison farm and saw the herd with their little calves… It’s my first time seeing them and although obviously better to spot them in the wild, this was a lovely setting with 4 holiday cottages and hot tubs, a teepee and little shacks you could sit in to watch them (I’m choosing to ignore the on-site restaurant that cooked them).
Odense is the home of Hans Christian Andersen so we spent a few hours pottering around the old streets and found his old house, then visited a few of the lovely city parks. We got stopped and offered free coffee and a chance to try out different blue tooth headphones. If I had spare money the sound quality from the Sony WH1000XM3 was sublime – I was in my own little world bopping about; I hadn’t realised they were noise cancelling and Mark was trying to talk to me (he tested sennheisers but they weren’t as good).
It was a glorious day and a few students had obviously just graduated and were celebrating. Jasper lapped up a drunk girls cuddles 😂 We also researched why so many young people are wearing sailor type caps. When they graduate it’s a Danish tradition to wear a cap all summer before university. It’s also linked to lots of fun mainly drinking related dares, such as a wave cut in the band means they’ve been skinny dipping, whereas a square means they have finished a box of beer in a night, the cap also entitles them to a free drink at lots of bars 😂
We opted to leave Fyn island and drive over the Great Belt Bridge (Storebaelt) to Stillinge Strand. It’s the world’s 4th largest suspension bridge and was amazing! Tweaking our Saturday tradition we found take away pizza and had it on the beach with the pups. Sat reading at 9pm with two pups asleep and Ernest digging up the sand… It was idyllic.
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