Nørregade 2A
6960 Hvide Sande, Denmark
56.005116, 8.129975
The last picture here is close to the shopping complex - down a slight incline from where we had parked (you can see the van in the first picture). The tower of fish boxes represent the height of the tsunami which hit the coast of Japan in 2012. It is by artist Andrew Haines and was built as part of the Bolgen Festival in 2013. Here's a link to a video collage of the structure.
Whilst in Hvide Sande we found a a kind of flea market - which had lots of different things, including old military shells and paraphernalia, also clogs made out of reed.
For lunch we decided to find some fish - and came across a Fiskebutik to buy some smoked eel. It was a little expensive, but very tasty.
After lunch we decided that we needed to cover some ground if we were going to make it to Sweden - so off we went on a longer trip to Kerteminde - about 250 kilometres (the way that we chose to go). It took us nearly four hours, and we ended up staying on the Harbour car park for the night. I had looked up where to stay - and this place appeared as an 'aire' where motorhomes could stay overnight. It was really great. Amazingly quiet, had toilets that we could use, water and cassette emptying facilities and I even managed to latch on to their wi-fi for nothing.
The details for the car park/aire are
Marinavejen 1
5300 Kerteminde, Denmark
55.452718, 10.663506
You can just see the van hiding behind the Harbour Masters building. There were benches overlooking the harbour - and I must admit that I took a beer and sat to watch the sun go down. Very nice.
Next day we went for a walk into Kerteminde itself. We explored widely and ended up at the Farvergarden museum, which was really interesting not least of which because you could get 'up close and personal' with most of the items. Very few things were locked away in glass cases.
On the way back to the van we stopped at a traditional cake shop and I bought a danish pastry. Times like this when K wishes that she could eat wheat. I sat on a bench next to the harbour and enjoyed it very much.
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