Travelog for: Kuma

Finally we went to see the beach. We went there in the early evening and had a lot of fun.

Our first trip led us to Fur, which is a small Danish island in the Limfjord at the northern tip of the Salling peninsula. Fur has under 900 inhabitants and covers an area of 22 km².
We have to go there by a ferry, although the crossing takes only 3 to 4 minutes.
Fur is renowned for its deposits of diatomite, konwn in Danish as 'moler'. We want to go fossil hunting, but unhappily we have ho luck, because the woman at the museum shows us the wrong place. Anyway it is a nice small island.

We visited a small museum and then we walked in a small park close to the museum. It was warm and nice to sit on this big stone for a short time.



Then we tried to find some fossils, but we only got covered with a lot of white dust.

In the evening we just enjoyed the sunset at the beach. Don't you think, it was wonderful. Even I only sat there watching the sun.

Hi Mum

this morning we got up rather early to get ready with breakfast and preparing lunch for a trip. Petra said, she wants to go to Hirtshals today, where is the biggest oceanarium in Europe. I first didn't know, what this means, but then I really liked it. It contains about 4,5 millions litre sea water. It is about 4 floors high. It was destroyed in 2003 by fire and rebuilt in 2005.

We saw many interesting fishes and I learnt my first Danish word: klumpfisk. The Klumpfisk is called Mondfisch (moonfish) in German and Sunfish in English. I think, this is really interesting.


Here you see me looking at a turbot.



They prepared the place like a part of the North Sea, so you see a part of a sunk ship and the klumpfisk.



I also saw some seals

On our way home we decided to stop by at Rubjerg Knude, which is a shifting sand dune, that is about 90 metres high.
Due to erosion several metres of sand get ablated each year, so the sand beach is changing its wideness and it steep coast arises from this.

The lighthouse is already covered partly and you only can see a very little part of the houses around the lighthouse, when you walk close to it.

Maybe you see the flying sand on this photo.

You see the sand dune growing in the inner land.

Pheeewwww!!! We really need a day to relax. Nothing is better than sitting her in the sun, telling jokes and taking a nap.




Later I wanted to take a bath. So my friends sat around and thought about jumping in or not. Petra said, that it isn't nice to make such an event out of this and asked them to go playing outside again.


Petra thinks, that this is a nice photo, because I'm looking with such big eyes up to her.



Crazy, crazy, crazy! First she is so friendly and everything and then she hangs me up like laundry. Can you believe this?


I shout out loud and when she came back to me, I asked her, whether I can dry somewhere else. So Petra put me and my friends on the banister in front of the winter garden.

Today we got up really early. Petra told us, that we would go somewhere really special. The weather was nice, so we would have everything we need for this trip.
We got the lunch packed and then jumped in our bag again. We got used to this now, so it wasn't such a problem sitting there during the drive.

There are also some bunkers from the second world war.


Finally we arrived at our destination and we saw: sand and water.



Grenen is the northmost tip of Jutland, north of the town of Skagen, thereby the northmost point of Denmark. Grenen was given its name for its shape like a tree-branch (Danish: gren). It's the point, where Skaggerak and Kattegat flow together.
You see me here at this place with waves from left and right, but the wind was so low, that there nearly were no waves.


Nevertheless we weren't allowed to go swimming.


Kari showed us a really fascinating effect - a rainbow ring around the sun. Petra read about it: This ring is called 22°-halo and is a ring of light with a radius of 22° around the sun.

Sorry, but it was too difficult to take a photo with a toyvoyager and still show the effect, so there is only this one with Kari, but you can be sure, I have seen this too.

Driving through Skagen we decided to take a look at the church, that is covered with sand and lieing in the dunes. This church is called Den tilsandede Kirke, the sand-engulfed Buried Church

After our daytrip to Skagen we decided to only go on a short trip today.

We drove to Vestervig to see the large church and windmill there.
Vestervig is a settlement and parish in Denmark, located in Thisted municipality in Region Nordjylland. Vestervig has a population of 754 (2004), but a disproportionately large church which served as a cathedral until 1130. This cathedral is still the largest town church of Scandinavia.





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I love this windmill.


Next to the church we found a place with many stones and first we wondered, what it really was. We saw these signs and tried to read it. We realized, that these were really old stones from the Iron Age. It was a village here from about 150 BC until early or mid 5th century AD:

Petra asked, whether we can drive to Norre Vorupor. It is another fisher town close to Klitmoller.
We only walked there a few minutes and then everybody realized, that we were so tired, that we only wanted to go home.

We were in Nykobing today, where it a wonderful flower park with many animals too. There is also a playground for older children, which are really great.

The park is called Jesperhus Blomsterpark.


There was a very special rainwood indoor playground with Aztec monuments.

No, Petra!!! This isn't really a good idea to put me there!!! Please, please take me away


No, please not all together in this terrible mouth!!! Who knows, what happens!!!! Please, let me out!!!



Oh, God!!! Where is Kari now!!! Is there nobody to help us getting out here again???



Phewww!!!! Sometimes it is very dangerous to stay with Petra and her family. Why don't they think of our feelings in this situations???

Yes, this is much better. I had been so happy to have some time for myself to relax in the Chinese Garden, that belongs to the park.


It was really fascinating to see the beautiful Danish flag everywhere - not only in the park, but also next to many houses in Klitmoeller and other towns.


Do you know Hans Christian Andersen? He wrote many fairy tales and some of them also Petra told to her children, but some of them she only knew by name. In the Blomsterpark there were statues of these fairy tales coloured with flowers, although the flowers didn't bloom so much right now.
Here you see a photo with me and "The Princess and the pea".



The Princess on the Pea
A translation of Hans Christian Andersen's "Prindsessen paa Ærten" by Jean Hersholt.

Once there was a Prince who wanted to marry a Princess. Only a real one would do. So he traveled through all the world to find her, and everywhere things went wrong. There were Princesses aplenty, but how was he to know whether they were real Princesses? There was something not quite right about them all. So he came home again and was unhappy, because he did so want to have a real Princess.

One evening a terrible storm blew up. It lightened and thundered and rained. It was really frightful! In the midst of it all came a knocking at the town gate. The old King went to open it.

Who should be standing outside but a Princess, and what a sight she was in all that rain and wind. Water streamed from her hair down her clothes into her shoes, and ran out at the heels. Yet she claimed to be a real Princess.

"We'll soon find that out," the old Queen thought to herself. Without saying a word about it she went to the bedchamber, stripped back the bedclothes, and put just one pea in the bottom of the bed. Then she took twenty mattresses and piled them on the pea. Then she took twenty eiderdown feather beds and piled them on the mattresses. Up on top of all these the Princess was to spend the night.

In the morning they asked her, "Did you sleep well?"

" Oh!" said the Princess. "No. I scarcely slept at all. Heaven knows what's in that bed. I lay on something so hard that I'm black and blue all over. It was simply terrible."

They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate. So the Prince made haste to marry her, because he knew he had found a real Princess.

As for the pea, they put it in the museum. There it's still to be seen, unless somebody has taken it.

There, that's a true story.


And here we are sitting in front of a small version of Andersen's house.

Do you know, that we are here in Denmark since one week now? We already had a great time.

Today we only go to Hanstholm in the afternoon, but first we just want to sit in the winter garden and relax.

Hanstholm is located about 11 kilometers from Klitmoller. Nearly each day we had to buy something there at Aldi, but we prefered to stay at the house, while others were shopping. Today we decided to visit the Hanstholm bunker museum. It is a scary place and reminds of the second world war, when this area was a part of the Atlantic Wall.










We drove by a very small train and Petra told us, that it was built for the soldiers, who had to go from bunker to bunker. They also carried munition in this train.


This is  the view to the Hanstholm harbor.

What is more beautiful, more exciting, more..... I just can't find the best word to describe it, you just must have seen it and felt it: sunset

Hi Mum
I thought, that you also would like this sunset today. It was the first and only time, when we saw the sun setting into the sea without any clouds or mist.