Thursday, August 20, 2009

Day 18: cycling

Today we stared out with a traditional Dansk breakfast of bread with
butter, cheese and jam. Lisbeth had the day off and walked us around the old part of the city. Really neat section of Fredericia guarded on one side by the ocean and on the other they built a huge moat with an enormous natural wall of earth about 4 stories tall.

After walking along the moat (now a public park) for a while this led
us to the beach where we relaxed in the sun for a while watch giant
red jelly fish float by.

On the way back we stopped and picked up some Smørrebrød, prounced "smerple". A very delicious, very Danish lunch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B8rrebr%C3%B8d

In the afternoon Mo and I had big plans to bike down the coast.
Borrowed some bikes, got our supplies together, water, mapped our route. Took a few cranks and decided that the tire needed some air.
Pshhhhhhhhhhhhh. Valve stem broke in half. Mo used one of little
Antons picture books to find the word for "bicycle", used that to find
a place to get a tube downtown. Short walk and much frustration later, got the tire changed.

Well that little adventure burned about 2 hours of our cycling time.
We did a shorter route instead that took us out by the ocean and back.
Still really nice.

For dinner we ordered pizza for our gracious hosts and watched
Copenhagen beat Berlin in football.

Tomorrow: Germany

The pic: us biking along a path near the ocean

1 comment:

  1. bummer that the ride was cut short, but it was all worth it for this GREAT pic! you should enter a contest for people that take self portraits with their own arm. you're doing very, very well.

    -katrina

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