Campsites,Denmark

Copenhagen was a delightful place, with pleasant weather, full moon and all. We had dinner in the Tivoli Gardens, looked around town some more, then found the campsite, with not much problem. Only one or two other campers in the campground, this is September.

The campsite in Helsingor was near the water, and we could see the lights of Sweden across the Øresund, the waterway that separates Denmark from Sweden. Emmy fixed dinner while I listened to the English language news from Radio Moscow. The local girls’ band in Helsingor marched through the shopping district. My love of band music (and girls!) persuaded me to walk all over Helsingor listening to the band.

The Fredrikshaven campsite was new and the facilities were about the best we have seen anywhere, including most hotels. The facilities included everything we could want, very clean, and well laid out. The camp sites are divided into small areas by trees and hedges. The first year we stopped here, there was no one to collect the money, but the next visit, we paid, but only for that year, not the previous one. We kidded them about that, and they laughed and said no cost for years gone by.

It’s pleasant driving through Denmark, but not as scenic as Sweden and Norway. Just a lot of flat farm land, with a very strong wind all day, this day. The towns are clean and neat and look like good places to live. We went to the large island and visited Odense and saw Hans Christian Anderson’s home, then found a campsite near Arhus.

Emmy is proud of the little (3” X 4” X 8”) brass box that was once used to sterilize needles, etc., by horse and buggy doctors years ago, that she found in the flea market. Then we rode the ferryboat from Bojden to Fynshav, where we found a campsite.

In the morning the man from the office of the campsite in Horsens came over with some hot fresh baked bread for our breakfast. Last night the manager and his wife were ready to leave for their home, after closing the municipal campsite in Horsens for season. But they decided we looked too tired to find another campsite, so they changed their minds and stayed another night, just for us. Amazing the wonderful people we find in every country. We suggested they have the city put a length of red tape over the directional signs, so no one else would look for this site. They liked that idea.