Sunday 22 June: Advertisements in the Tube in London promote Aalborg as having a big concentration of nightclubs, but I was just keen to catch up with Birgitte- my penfriend since highschool- and her household, including 10-month-old Laura. Birgitte met me at Aalborg and we went for a drink and a Greek dinner at Hos Costa. Then back at her house in Suldrup I got to meet her partner Ken, and Laura, who was very curious about my ukulele.
Monday: Birgitte had taken a couple of days off work which was fantastic - however on my first full day we were both pretty tired - Birgitte because her dog had been unwell during the night, and me because I think I had had too much chocolate at Zurich airport... Anyway, we stopped for some supplies at a huge shopping centre in Aalborg (there was a shop there where you can design your own teddy bear), and then headed up towards the seaside summer resort town of Løkken. It was blowing an absolute gale - we were driving at 100km/h and the clouds were easily overtaking us... good weather for windmills. It was also fairly chilly so no swimming today! But with a bit of imagination you could see how it'd be a great place when the sun was out. We had a great lunch at local pub. It's awesome to check in with Birgitte every so often... but we also had a nod to being tourists with a visit to Børglum Kloster, an ancient monastery. In the evening I went along with Ken to help him move some furniture for a friend in Aalborg.
Tuesday: Birgitte took me for a drive across Jutland and we stopped for a while at Mariager, where we enjoyed a leisurely wander around town and lunch, all the while getting up to date with all the news and reminiscing about our previous visits to each other. On the way back it became a bit of a mission to find an ice-cream shop and to that end we had a look around Hobro. Nice to visit, and a cool music shop to poke around, no ice-cream.
Our quest was finally resolved back at the shopping centre, and from there Birgitte dropped me off at Aalborg - it was just a quick visit this time, but always fantastic to cross paths, hopefully we'll organise it again soon!My flight from Aalborg to Gatwick was around 3 1/2 hours late! I didn't find out until after I checked in, and the initial estimated departure time wasn't too bad, but there were several postponements and I started to get concerned about the time I'd arrive in London. The one redeeming aspect of the flight was that we took off just after sunset, and after we took off we had the interesting experience of seeing the sun reappear over the horizon and it was quite an amazing view over the West Jutland lakes.
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