There was a storm out somewhere to the north last night, and the lightning woke me up. I lay awake listening to the church bell ringing out the hour and the half hour till 2, then finally fell asleep again. But I was feeling a little fragile when morning came round.
After breakfast we went for a walk along the poplar lined path beside the bay. A lady with a friendly Labrador passed us. "He is going to a dog meeting" she told us as she passed, and sure enough, up ahead at the point there were some people sitting on chairs and a pack of assorted dogs milling about, and behind us were a trio of more dogs, with owners, heading off to the "meeting". It seemed very Aero that local dogs had an organised event to attend.
There was a minor alarm when, a few minutes before the ferry docked, Anne realised she had left something back in the hotel room. Luckily it was not far, and I managed to run back to the hotel and then back to the ferry before it left.
Our friend Jeppe was waiting at Svendborg, and we had a nice lunch in a traditional Danish inn, where I tried the pickled herring in the interests of expanding my cultural horizons. Jeppe drove us to Aarhus, crossing on the way the vast bridges that connect Funen to Jutland.
It was great to catch up with Jeppe, and very nice to be driven. We stopped in a cool looking neighbourhood on the outskirts of Aarhus for the best coffee in quite a while, then onto our hotel, passing the striking Rainbow Panorama ontop of the Aarhus Art Gallery.
We headed out a bit later with Jeppe and Maia to a nice cafe for wine o'clock, then went to an ambitious restaurant for a self-consciously upmarket dinner. Aarhus seems to take its newfound foodie status very seriously. It was nice to have two bright young locals to talk to about Denmark and it's enigmatic ways.
Aarhus looks like an interesting and lively city. We are glad to be here, and glad we will be heading home in week.
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