13 june 2024
Travel log
- Nordic countries and proper blinds that actually cut the morning light: challenge (impossible). It was however not unpleasant to drift in and out of sleep for a few hours this morning (...and it's not even 8am as I type this), but now I'm kind of feeling it. Ow.
- The good piece of news, though, is that I was kind of terrified of having hurt my knee yesterday (bad torsion when getting out of the bus with our luggage) and this morning it seems completely fine. phew, and fingers crossed. (Right knee, if I ever grep knee in the next weeks.)
- Breakfast at the hotel was quite nice, again with a view of the sea! Fun thing: the bottle of schnaps and shot glasses between the coffee thermos and the sugar and milk :p
- Stroll in Stige, north of Odense, between the canal and the sea channel. Very pleasant, very empty. And very impressed by the amount and variety of bird songs!
- Saw some kind of deer on the road
- Visited Odense, very pretty town with a lot of bricks
- Also visited the Hans Christian Andersen museum - very impressive setup and building, and in general entertaining storytelling about the man and his works
- Went for a piece of cake and coffee in a café
- Strolled a bit more in the town before giving up when the rain started to get heavier (but it receded before we reached the car)
- On the way back to Middelfart, did a detour to Strib to go see the lighthouse. Pretty lighthouse, would recommend; also there's a view on the bridge to the next island. As we were walking along the shore, we saw a lot of jellyfish!
- Spent a couple of hours chilling, writing this and reading at the hotel room while Pierre was having a nap
- Had lovely dinner at the hotel, although some mistakes were made
- First dish was cod and pickled strawberries with beurre blanc, delicious
- Then oyster with yogurt and herb sauce, and toast of ham, also very good, and I typically don't eat oysters
- Main course was pork, asparagus and bearnaise sauce, great
- Then cheese, which was the double mistake of ordering cheese and eating all the cheese - it was great cheese, but that plate was more than generous!
- And finally dessert, apple pie with honey ice cream and lemon sauce and crumbly bit of white chocolate. Very nice, but I wasn't in a state to fully enjoy it anymore!
An interesting article about "no, brains are not computers, they just don't work that way" - https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
Holy shit, the French left parties announced they actually have an agreement, a common program and a list of candidates. They did it, and... hope seems not ridiculously out of grasp? Of course the current coalition is far from perfect, but nothing ever is in politics.