Denmark Trip - Day 10 - Tved, DK to Aarhus, DK

Summer House, Tved – Woke around 7 AM. Weather was another beautiful day with blue skies. Lotte said she would be proctoring 6 student oral and written exams in the morning and would come to the summer house around 12 noon.

Then, we planned to return Marie’s car to her in Aarhus. Carol and I drove to Lotte’s house and washed Marie’s car using water from Lotte’s rain barrel. Around 10:30 AM, Carol and I drove to Ronde where we filled up Marie’s car with gas (425.5 DKK, 24.5 Liters or $60, 6.5 Gal, $9.26/Gal). We then drove to the town of Ebeltoft where we parked in the church parking lot.

Ebeltoft is an old, picturesque, somewhat touristy port town with cobblestone streets and ancient half-timbered houses. We walked around town and found a little café on the central plaza where we got coffee (me) and a cold drink (Carol).

The plaza was busy with local vendors selling crafts, clothing, etc. Carol bought a nice sun hat. We then walked to the waterfront where the frigate Jylland is moored. The ship had been beautifully restored since when we saw it back in 1992.

According to Wikipedia, the Jylland is one of the world’s largest wooden warships and is both a sail propelled and screw-propelled steam frigate.

We left Ebeltoft around 1:30 PM and stopped at our favorite fish store (Fiske –Mols Rogeri) and got fishcakes (fiskefrickadeller), smoked salmon and smoked salt on the way back to Lotte’s house.  Lotte was back and was trying to finish some schoolwork.

She said her back ache had returned and she was having a hard time sitting.  We all had lunch of smoked salmon, bread, and cheese. We then loaded a bed frame in Marie’s car to take to her place. The frame barely fit after pushing the back seats down and the front passenger seat all the way forward.

Marie had bought the frame for the summer house, but it turned out it wasn’t the right size. So, she arranged for someone to buy it. I drove Marie’s car and Lotte and Carol drove in her car. Marie’s car was a small Peugeot with a stick shift that was fun to drive. I also appreciated how easy it was parallel parking in tiny spots when we got to Marie’s, LOL.

The two young ladies who were going to buy the bed frame showed up and we all helped them cram it into their car. After that, Marie took Lotte, Carol, and me to her place where we sat outside in her backyard and chatted. I also took some photos of some framed photographs of Lotte’s parents and family that I planned to put in her Ancestry family tree I was working on. We returned to Lotte’s house and had bread and cheese.

Later, Lotte took us to a small concert at a local church. The concert was interesting and included a band of about five (singer/guitar, second guitar, keyboard, drums, percussion) plus an elderly man who told stories in Danish throughout the concert. After the concert, Lotte dropped us off at the summer house where Carol and I crashed for the night. 

Things I Learned On This Day (#TILOTD) –

• Gas is about twice as expensive in Denmark as it is in the U.S.
• Fregatten Jylland hasn’t changed much in the last 30 years
• A queen size IKEA bed frame will fit into the back of a compact Peugeot car