You know when you've been snowmobiling all day with a bunch of people and at the end when everyone takes off their bulky ski-doo suits and you see some incredible babe* that has been with you the whole time? That's what Denmark is doing right now - peeling off the grey clouds and overflowing with flowers and birdsongs.
(*Note - according to my friend Stu Thomson, if it is a parka, ski-doo suit, coveralls or burka, if you're a Canadian male, you should be able to spot them.)
After biking with Maja to school, I like to continue on to my favorite spot in Humlebæk where I can look out over the ocean. Here I can escape my hectic, stressful lifestyle for a few minutes before I have to get back to the house where I must drink coffee and look at the harbour.
Rick is thinking Happy Thoughts
View from my Happy Place. Note the kayaker in his happy place.
He's looking at me thinking it would be nice to sit on a park bench right now.
Before the leaves arrive on the trees, the flowers blossom so we've got white, pink and yellow flowering trees everywhere. If you continue my earlier analogy, Denmark has her hair done up, makeup tastefully done, jewelry everywhere and she's twerking right now.
A glorious canopy of flowers so you can skip your way to the train station to commute.
A "Tulip Tree" which has flowers that are just like a…um…uh...
Makes you want to lie down and stare at the clouds.
But then the bugs will come and it won't be as pleasant as you imagined.
We broke all of the Danish traveling rules and drove 2 hours out and back on the same day (with no coffee breaks) to get to Møn, which is a little island just south of Copenhagen.
The claim to fame for Møn is the Chalk Klints (Cliffs) which are on the easternmost side of the island facing the sea. The whole island is quaint and picturesque, but the main tourist draw is a walk along the coastline where the chalk slowly falls into the sea during storms and exposes some great fossils. The dinosaurs here are the same as in North America except they have a more formal class structure and tend to fight amongst themselves.
Rolling countryside of Møn. "Surf and Turf" for supper every night if you live here.
The Chalk Klint. (Hey, Cliff Renwick!)
Chalk and Chert
(for my Geological friends - sorry I didn't have a rock hammer for scale)
One big winter storm and this comes down. Better get the kids away from there.
We're rounding the corner into the final months of our Danish experience. Mother Nature is working hard to erase the dark winter and it feels like we have so much to do with so little time. Our friends Deb and Gerry are visiting at the end of May, Mette turns 50, and we might try to squeeze in a week in Paris but mostly we want to explore Denmark before the rising sea level turns this country into a shallow lake.
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