{"id":2357,"date":"2018-11-24T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=2357"},"modified":"2018-11-24T10:41:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T09:41:51","slug":"week-45-aarhus-copenhagen-back-to-spain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=2357","title":{"rendered":"Week 45: Aarhus, Copenhagen, back to Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The week began in Aarhus, continued in Copenhagen, and then it was time to go back home.<\/p>\n

45_1<\/strong>
\nOn Monday, Lars and I cycled the traditional Marselis route, 80 km south and west of Aarhus. It was a bit drizzly at times, and the temperature was around 7C, but there was not much wind and we enjoyed it:
\n\"R004789\"<\/p>\n

45_2<\/strong>
\nTypical eastern Jutland landscape. It may not be as spectacular as the mountains back in Spain, but in my heart, this is the most beautiful place in the world:
\n\"R004787\"<\/p>\n

45_3<\/strong>
\nThis road makes me think of a huge cathedral with its columns:
\n\"R004791\"<\/p>\n

45_4<\/strong>
\nIn the evening, we went to have dinner at the folk high school where Lars works, Testrup H\u00c3\u00b8jskole<\/a>. I got Lars to pose with a piece of art created by one of his students:
\n\"DSF3208\"<\/p>\n

45_5<\/strong>
\nLars’s daughter Marie also came, with her two sons. Here she is, with the older one, Lauge:
\n\"DSF3213\"<\/p>\n

45_6<\/strong>
\nLauge and Emil at the table:
\n\"DSF3211\"<\/p>\n

45_7<\/strong>
\nOn Tuesday morning, Lars and I drove to Copenhagen; he was going to spend a few days with his girlfriend Winnie, and I was flying home late that afternoon. The first leg of the trip is on the ferry from Aarhus to Sj\u00c3\u00a6llands Odde, a long peninsula on the extreme west of Sj\u00c3\u00a6lland (Zealand), the island on which Copenhagen is located. The ferry trip takes about 1:15 h, just enough time to relax:
\n\"R004802\"<\/p>\n

45_8<\/strong>
\nAs I usually do, I went up on deck to have a last look at my hometown. The skyline of Aarhus has been radically transformed in the past decade, with a lot of new construction on the waterfront:
\n\"R004799\"<\/p>\n

45_9<\/strong>
\nAbout an hour later, the weather is a lot nicer, and we are approaching Sj\u00c3\u00a6lland:
\n\"R004803\"<\/p>\n

45_10<\/strong>
\nWinnie has a summer house near Sj\u00c3\u00a6llands Odde, and we stopped there briefly because Lars had to drop off some stuff:
\n\"DSF3217\"<\/p>\n

45_11<\/strong>
\nThe view from the kitchen:
\n\"DSF3214\"<\/p>\n

45_12<\/strong>
\nWe went for a brief walk around the house:
\n\"DSF3218\"<\/p>\n

45_13<\/strong>
\nMajestic pose:
\n\"DSF3219\"<\/p>\n

45_14<\/strong>
\nDown below, a fisherman was wading ashore in the chilly waters of the northern Baltic Sea:
\n\"DSF3220\"<\/p>\n

45_15<\/strong>
\nWinnie’s garden:
\n\"DSF3222\"<\/p>\n

45_16<\/strong>
\nAutumn colours:
\n\"DSF3223\"<\/p>\n

45_17<\/strong>
\nAfter arriving in Copenhagen, we said goodbye outside the main train station. I put my suitcase in the locker and set out to spend a few more hours in the city before I had to head to the airport. I walked past the statue of Bishop Absalon, who founded Copenhagen in the 12th century:
\n\"DSF3262\"<\/p>\n

45_18<\/strong>
\nI decided to visit the Black Diamond, a modern addition to the Royal Library that was extremely controversial when it was built, but like many such projects, has since become yet another architectural treasure of this great city:
\n\"DSF3235\"<\/p>\n

45_19<\/strong>
\nOf course, more traditional library images are also there:
\n\"DSF3244\"<\/p>\n

After having lunch in the library cafeteria (one of the best lunch deals in Copenhagen, it turned out), I walked back to the train station, retrieved my luggage and took the train to the airport. A few hours later, I was back in Alicante to my usual life of work, cycling and such. A few images from the later part of the week follow.<\/p>\n

45_20<\/strong>
\n“My” beach, Playa Muchavista:
\n\"R004807\"<\/p>\n

45_21<\/strong>
\nWhile taking my customary break in Aig\u00c3\u00bces, I noticed this cat peeking into the church:
\n\"R004811\"<\/p>\n

45_22<\/strong>
\nI suppose he was not Catholic, since he decided that what was going on inside was not for him:
\n\"R004812\"<\/p>\n

45_23<\/strong>
\n\"R004813\"<\/p>\n

45_24<\/strong>
\nI finished the week by going to the Eden bar in El Campello to have a couple of Belgian beers and watch the England-New Zealand rugby match. These bar patrons were not into rugby:
\n\"R004815\"<\/p>\n

More pictures from Denmark are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The week began in Aarhus, continued in Copenhagen, and then it was time to go back home. 45_1 On Monday, Lars and I cycled the traditional Marselis route, 80 km south and west of Aarhus. It was a bit drizzly at times, and the temperature was around 7C, but there was not much wind and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2074,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2357"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2357\/revisions\/2362"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}