September 8 & 9: Odense

A gorgeous morning to start a lovely Autumn day. The girls are happy with a playground at the campground. We decide to drive to Odense today. This means that we have to drive over the famous Odense bridge. It is enormous and quite spectacular. The cost is about $70 NZ to cross in our van.

We haven't been caught out by Monday museum closing much before now as we have not been to that many museums, but our plans to find more out about Hans Christian Anderson are put aside as we discover it is closed on Mondays. At least there is free WiFi in the town centre. We hear from NZ and wander the streets around the museum.

The rain doesn't come to much and we decide to head for a town on the coast which was recommended by the camp manager or Copenhagen. We stay at Sandager just out of Assens. Very quiet here. We are the only ones in the campground for the night. Like the other camp grounds that are closing this week, the facility closes at the end of the week.

We spend the morning a the campground then decide to drive back to Odense. We have been trying to get back to the UK early but confirmed last night that it was not possible to get on the next ferry tomorrow night.

Millie really enjoys finding out about Hans Christian Anderson. Born in 1805 in extreme poverty we found how he ended up writing fairy tales, some of which are very familiar to the girls.

We move from here to a large shopping centre where we take a peek and are again caught gasping when we take the time to do the conversion into New Zealand dollars.

Our parking spot is alongside another camper in a public car park on the outskirts of Middelfart.... True!

September 7: Copenhagen

After a very late night for the girls we hang around the van for the morning. Rain comes and goes and we decide to grab a water-bus and head along the river/canal to the city. Clare's feet are pretty sore after a big walk yesterday so we take it gently when we do get off the boat and wander through the heart of the town.

The architecture is amazing here. There is a real mix of old and new here and it comes together so well. We are out and about in the sleepy town this Sunday til 6 at night. The campsite is closing tonight so we are one of the last vans to drive out of the park for the season. We drive to the west of the Island to Kolsor and stay in a camp ground overnight. This one closes tomorrow for the season. We've timed this well. The manager is a friendly fellow with a genuine viking surname ... Apparently.

September 6: Germany to Copenhagen... Tivoli by night

Today 27 degrees. Wander the village shops and admire the port before driving on to Puttgarden, our last taste of Germany where we jump on a ferry to cross to Rodby Havn in Denmark.

It's a bit of a drive but we pull into Copenhagen after a few stops at 7pm.

There's a cool man at the campground (actually an unused parking lot with container filled with showers and loos). He has a viking surname andives Millie a coin. He instructs us that we must take the kids into the city tonight to go to Tivoli