Awoke surrounded by a sea of cars, not actually unexpected because this was the main car park for the town. Yet another lovely morning to take the dog for a walk, have breakfast, clean the toilet out. Oh the joys of motorhoming! Once completed we set off, destination Denmark with the ferry being around 90mins away but beforehand needing some shopping. As always seems to happen, up pops an Aldi just when we need it, so half an hour doing what we love best – not!
With TomTom taking the
lead we were soon picking up signs for the ferry. We had been told it
was a turn up and pay, which it was and a nice young German lad who
only looked about 15 but spoke impeccable fluent English sorted us
out, including a discount for a camping card we had previously
obtained. Total cost, one way, around £100! But the alternative was
little cheaper and we didn't expect this to be a cheap trip so you
just say thank you very much, compliment him on his English and join
the queue.
Which started to move
shortly after we joined it, strangely because none of the hundreds of
cars seemed to be going anywhere. But then a large angry German
started waving his hands, suggesting that the driver of the (Swedish)
van in front of us lacked intelligence (or something like that). Well
we were just following him and didn't see the Stop sign. Managed to
creep in reverse back to the queue........
But it wasn't long
before the next boat arrived, they're every half hour, and things
then progressed normally. Very efficient turnround and as the trip
was only 45m we left Jamie in the van whilst going in search of
Danish currency, drinks and, er, Danish Pastry. Well you have to
don't you.
The only hold up was
when we had to slow down so a Danish policeman could translate our
registration plate into Great Britain, then onto the motorway heading
for Copenhagen. As planned, we stopped at the first rest area to walk
the dog, have lunch and make some decisions. Wanting to visit the capital
city, which was around 90 mins away, we found a city centre campsite
that promised to be within walking distance. Perfect.
Well perhaps campsite
was a bit generous but it was a perfectly acceptable private
aire-type site with full facilities, if a tad expensive, and ideal
for our plans. So paid for two nights, the man gave us all the info
we needed but we felt it was a bit late today, so we'll try for an
earlyish start tomorrow.
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