Our first Warm Showers hosts in Denmark, Tage and Pia, live in a modernised typical farm house on the edge of a little village. We learn from them that the closed level crossings that disrupted our ride to them are part of a project to upgrade the rail system, in preparation for a new tunnel from Lolland Island in Denmark to Fehmarn in Germany. Tage is a clarinet player in the Copenhagen symphony orchestra and Tia a local sixth form Chemistry teacher. Tuesday morning P leaves for an outdoors rehearsal as they are playing a concert outside, this evening, in the Tivoli Park.
We set off north, crossing the longest bridge yet, 2 and 1/2 miles to the island of Zealand. Fortunately it is not windy or raining (for either us or Tage)! Black and white Eider Ducks bob on the sea below.
The Margarita tourist route is perfect, car free, through hamlets of ochre painted thatched cottages, red churches, and a Slot (castle).
The field edges and gardens are a mass of white and mauve flowering lilac.
Miles to date 1250
Location:Falster Island to Zeeland
