It was my second visit to Denmark and Adrian's first. When I was 12 I found a penfriend on penpal.net (remember that?) called Ditte. We wrote letters for many years, only stopping with the advent of Facebook! We met when I visited DK in '08. I was excited to be seeing her again, and her boyfriend Jacob, who visited us in Hobart a couple of years ago when he was on exchange in Australia.
The flight from New York to Frankfurt exhausted us, and then there was the connection to Copenhagen, then a train across the bridge to Sweden and overland to Ystad, where we caught a ferry to Bornholm, the island where Ditte and Jacob grew up. Tired. The sea was rough, which when compounded with sleep deprivation meant we were dying to get there, see our friends, and sleep. When we got off the ferry in Rønne, strong gusts of wind nearly blew us over and sideways rain slammed into our faces, waking us up nicely :)
Bornholm is a small Danish island in the Baltic sea, only about 600km2. Rønne is the main town, full of cobblestone streets and tiny conjoined houses, in terracotta and yellow and white. We spent a full day driving around the island, seeing beautiful white sand beaches, ruins on clifftops, medieval round churches, viking graves, gorgeous seaside towns and the work of local craftspeople. I loved the colourful Baltic sea glass.
We returned to Copenhagen for a couple of nights and spent a day cycling around in the rain, seeing the sights. Ditte and Jacob cooked us delicious Danish food. They were awesome tour guides and hosts, so proud of the gorgeous windswept island that they grew up on, and the beautiful city where they now live. We could see why.
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