Woke up to the happy anticipation of wandering the charming streets of Denmark, and perhaps partaking of a Carlsberg (what else?) or two. 😊 Looking out from our balcony, we noticed that the CitySightseeing hop-on-hop-off bus was parked up, so we decided that would be what we’d do for today. We breakfasted as usual in…
WINTER SOLSTICE When the days are short and the nights are dark and cold, many people welcome the Winter Solstice (the “shortest day of the year”) as the sign that the sun is on its way back again. We got up with morning at 8.30am; I would like to have said that we had an…
Friday, 19th July 2013 It was another bright and sunny day when we woke up this morning, with nary a cloud in the sky. But there were little black clouds forming above our heads as we tried to shake off the depressing fact that our holiday was fast coming to an end. 🙁 We…
When we woke up this morning the Black Watch was gliding slowly along the river, just about to dock in Aalborg, Denmark’s fourth largest city situated right on the waterfront. We hadn’t booked any city tours today as the ship was docked literally across the road from the town; we could see a pub called…
