Tour de Denmark - the road trip.

[DkVelo]

Hi Piston headers - Denmark Calling.

I have long thought about if this should go in the roads section or here, but here goes.

I have long been thinking about putting together the ultimate driving vacation in Denmark, I live here and I am mapping fun roads, good places to eat and sleep and nice places to make a stop, and I was thinking about putting them together in a decent roadtrip.

But then it made me wonder, If I was going to put together a trip for other people as well, what would be interesting to come by?

Proper places to sleep for a decent price, history and surroundings would be nice.
Hotel Dagmar in Ribe, the oldest Hotel in Denmark (from 1581) Ribe is the oldest Danish city, is and old Kingstown and is near national park "Vadehavet"



The white men near Esbjerg



Stopping by sandsculpture festival søndervig


(http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/s%C3%B8ndervig/Interesting)


Going through National Park Thy



If you surf, this is the place to visit.
Cold Hawaii aka. Klit Møller:



Great roads:

(http://www.panoramio.com/photo/93440318)


History
Hanstholm Bunker Museeum



Lodbjerg fyr



Staying at Sanden Bjerggård.
The food is good and plenty, the view is 2. to none in Denmark, endless beaches and lots of stars in the night.



Come around midday and enjoy a great lunch at Svinkløv badehotel, enjoy a pleasent walk back to the hotel.

If this geats serious, I can arrange a whisky tasting here:

My uncle has a little neben gesheft driven by passion in Whisky.


There is allso Svinkløv badehotel. But that is allmost world famous, book early, very offline and peacefull. The food is high quality.



These are close to each other. But both worth a visit. The nature there is some of the best in the country



Skagen can't be missed, nealy two million visitors a year - mostly in the summer




It is the very tip of Jutland and you can stand with one foot in "Kattegat" and one foot in "Skagerak"
The city is famous for its special light and its painters, most famous Anna and Michael Ancher and Krøyer.
Near Skagen is the sanded Church



as well as Råbjerg Mile, wich is a "walking" dune.



Going invards.
A visit at coffee Kaj's collection could be nice:
http://www.prestigecars.dk/showroom



Silkeborg offers some quality nature.
Himmelbjerget (Sky mountain) (at 147 meters!?)
The worlds oldest coal fired ferry, Hjejlen



Vrads station near Silkeborg, in the middle of no-where

Coffee and cake, light dishes, steamtrain rides. 20 min. walk to a fresh water lake for a great swim. No phone signal, just nature.
(And a very very fun road near by. It is like a rollercoaster ride. This alone is worth a detour)

The tirds national park.
Nationalpark Mols. treats us with very nice roads and good food and stay:
Molskroen - very high quality dining



Ebeltoft near by offers cosy atmosphere and the old friggat "jylland" wich is now a dry dock museeum



Aarhus nearby offers History, shopping and art.

(http://www.mydenmark.net/aros-modern-art-museum-in-aarhus/)


The old City, a living replica



And now with a 1970's section



Every 2nd year there is allso Sculptures by the sea in Aarhus:
http://www.sculpturebythesea.dk/

Food is cheap at the universities
The cantina at Navitas, todays hot meal for Kr. 32


Or at Statbibilioteket famous for its cake.


Or Mat kant (allso famous for its cake



Now there is some places where I haven't decided what is best to do. But it is the great east cost town Horsens, Vejle, Kolding, Fredericia Middelfart.

The industri museeum en Horsens holds a special place for me: http://www.horsens.dk/KulturOgFritid/Museer/Indust...
But then again. http://motorsamlingen.dk/ near Mols could do it as well.

There are great roads near Vejle (Jutlands only hair pin turn I guess near munkebjerg)
Tørskind grusgrav

(http://www.visitdenmark.dk/da/danmark/vejlemuseerne---landskabsskulptur-robert-jacobsen---jean-clareboudt-gdk720837)
surrounded by great but narrow roads between Vejle and Legoland. A good place for a stop, there is a toilet there as well.


Going to Fyn there is a lot of graat roads. Hans Christian Anderson and Odense would be worth a visit, or the danish rail museeum maybe
http://www.jernbanemuseet.dk/da/udstillinger/den-p...

Going throgh the nice roads of southern Fyn. The Strøjer collection is a must see for a car nerd:
http://strojersamlingen.dk/

(https://www.facebook.com/morgenmotorklub/photos/a.1536773749890996.1073741835.1442035619364810/1536775299890841/?type=3&theater)


A good place to end it all would be in Sønderborg with a short ferry trip from Fyn.



It is a cosy town on the Island Als, near Dybbel where the great battles of the 1864 war was fought.
But most important in this case.
There is a road there called: Verdens ende (Worlds end)

How about that?

Sorry for the long post.
Best regards
Velo

[DkVelo]

gtidriver said:

Beautifully written and lovely pictures. Ive had the pleasure twice now of visiting this lovely country. Unfortunately its only been short visits to Copenhagen,but we will venture further when we come next time.

Thanks, the pictures aren't mine, and I am acctually just planning a trip.
I like my country and was thinking about what was going to be in the tour if I were to share it whit a car club or something.

[DkVelo]

Forget about Copenhagen.

Aarhus is the new black:
https://www.facebook.com/morgenmotorklub/posts/174...




http://www.travelandleisure.com/culture-design/arc...
http://www.vogue.com/13418257/travel-adult-spring-...
http://www.theguardian.com%2Ftravel%2F2016%2Fapr%2...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/07/trav... - #13

Edited by DkVelo on Wednesday 25th May 11:14

Edited by DkVelo on Wednesday 25th May 11:21

[DkVelo]

I have posted this before but from other media sources
And the world have seemed to have fallen in love with Aarhus.

This time it is Lonely planet who have put Aarhus in the 2nd place in the 2016 Top 10 places to visit.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...