Thursday 17 July 2008

Road Trippin' With My Three Favourite Allies: Day Two

Our second day took us through Denmark and into Sweden.  I've realised that Europe is the continent of wind turbines.  I've never seen so many in my life and they are curiously beautiful.  We crossed the Oresund Bridge, the bridge that connects Denmark and Sweden.  It's 7.845 kilometres long making it the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe and the longest border crossing bridge in the world.  Cool huh?  It's a beautiful structure, and many of the other bridges we crossed were as well.  We stopped in a random little village for a break and stumbled upon this incredible church.  It was soft and grand and immense but not overpowering.  Kristianopel was our last stop that night.  We set up our tents and had a wander around the campsite.
It was the scene of a bitter battle between the Swedes and the Danish, our little camping spot was where the church had stood before being burnt by the Swedes as they thought that the Danes had desecrated the church by using it for ammunition storage.  There was live music that night, a band made up of a dad, sister, brother and another.  They were fantastic entertainers, they even made the Swedish songs fun to listen to.  And that was the end of day two.

1 comment:

Triniti the Luddite said...

Wish I was there, but the pictures are great.