Got off the ferry in Copenhagen and my rear tire was flat, so I fixed it on the sidewalk near the ferry, then went to find the tourist office. Got maps and the address of the Youth Hostels, and picked the YMCA since it was the most interesting one and settled in for 3 nights. I would be spending my birthday (the 20th) here.

Copenhagen is just charming with its colourful houses and canals (an intricate system throughout the city, also common in Holland and Belgium), Tivoli (read backwards it spells "I Lov It") Gardens, parks with windmills, warm and friendly people. So I spent a couple of days wandering the city and splurging on Danish pastries.

I got up early well-rested, got ready, said goodbye to Lisbeth (a charming young Danish lady at the YMCA YH) and left Copenhagen due west.

Did good time cycling to Roskilde (a fishing community about 40 kms west of Copenhagen) and spent some time here resting and snacking while talking with locals and a couple of French cyclist.

Then I went on cycling to Slagelse, on the western side of Sjaeland (the Danish island which contains Copenhagen), where I spent the night.

In the morning, I cycled to Korsor but bicycles weren't allowed on the bridge crossing the Store Baelt straights to Nyborg on the Fyn peninsula. My choices were the train or bus across the bridge. I took the bus as it was more convenient (it had a trailer specifically for bikes) and cheaper. I then cycled west to Odense where there was a Photography Museum I wanted to check out so I settled down in a campground near the southern end of the city (not a great deal at about the same price as a Youth Hostel, but everything was full in town). In the morning I spent sometime at the museum and left.

Leaving Odense, I wasn't sure whether to go northwest to the Jutland peninsula or southwest towards Germany. In the end, since everything was full (campgrounds and hostels) in Denmark during this vacation period and all that Jutland seemed to offer was more windmills, flat field and Legoland, I opted to go towards Germany and headed southwest.

I arrived at Bojden by mid-afternoon but had to wait a couple of hours for the ferry to Fynshav in southeast Jutland. By the time I arrived in Fynshav it was time to settle for the night and I found a little campground by the sea.

In the morning, I got up and cycled the 30 kms or so to Sonderborg where I took a rest, some pictures and had a snack. I cycled the 20 kms to Krusa, the Danish border town and spent my remaining kronors on a German map and a beer.

Well, overall Denmark is a very small country, few forests, mostly farmlands, very flat with very little to catch the eye aside from a few picturesque windmills... so I zipped by very quickly.

The only points of interest in my experience are the people and Copenhagen.

The people are very open, warm and easy to talk to, as well most women share the physical attributes of Scandinavian women. Copenhagen is a very pretty multicultural city... it was easy to spend a couple of days just wandering and people watching... and eating pastries...

Denmark is also a pleasure to cycle with a well developed network of cycle routes... in fact most main and secondary roads are doubled with paved cycling paths... safe, good surface, and out of the traffic.