Auto Tour Day 4

It's day 4 and it's a sunny morning - WOW !

The dinning room is long and narrow.  So if you want to sit by the window, you gotta be damn early or dang lucky to get a window seat.  There are only 2 tables directly at the window.  The table behind Jens is where we had that horrible dinner on the day we arrived. The view however, made the $150 non-chewable dinner worth it.  Did I mention the waiter was extremely genorus with the house wine?  And in this country, they measure to the line - exactly 2 cl. of booze in a cocktail and not a drop more. This morning, the breakfast room was filled with guest.

There was lots to choose from at the buffet table.  All the typical breakfast foods:  bacon, eggs, fruit, cold cuts, etc.  My only disappointment was that since this is a 4* hotel and since this is the danish capital of the world, they ought to have served fresh bread rolls.  What they offered was frozen from the freezer to oven to the table.  Otherwise, it was all yummie.

I snap a few last pix before we pack up and head out.  I would for sure stay here again because it was so nice and clean and the view was to die for.  I would just have a hard time with the lack of options of quality food at a fair price.  We could always barge in on the Queen.  Her palace is literally just a stone throw away.

 Looking north to the city.

 Looking south to the forest.

 The steeple is the Aarhus Cathedral that we went to on day 2.

The area where we drove to yesterday on day 3 - as seen from our room.

As we head out of town, I snap pix of random buildings. 

The entire street was so amazing,
I actually should have filmed a video.

We are on our way to the 4th largest city of Denmark: Aalborg.
Our entire trip is on country roads.
Here are a few pix I snapped along the way.

 The Mariager fjord

 Mariager Church in the village of Mariager and monastery to the right of the church.

 Mariager marina.

Vintage railroad and museum in the village of Mariager.

It's only now as I write this that I am learning that this is a place that I would like to spend more time at and take a train ride.

 Getting ready to cross the Mariager Fjord.

The pink house with the thatched roof is from somewhere nearby the country village of

Rebild.
The building below with the thatched is from Rebild.
It's a tacky restaurant/museum/souvenir shop.
We sat here and ordered lunch. 
After lunch I just had to buy a super cool hat with Danish and American flag and a sweet (but maybe tacky) porcelain boy and girl kissing in front of a windmill that actually turns.
Rebild is a country village where every year on the 4th of July, the worlds largest 4th of July celebration outside of the US is held here.

There must be a million traffic circles in Denmark and many of them have artwork in the center.
This one is made of glass and metal.  We are on our way to Aalborg.

Wow !  We got another wonderful water view from our hotel in Aalborg.
But with a country made of 406 islands, it's almost a standard.

I was telling a work colleague about the wonderful view.
Wonderful view? he said, looking at my like I was crazy.
It's just the fjord - he said.  I knew what he meant.
He was talking about the very ugly cement factory on the other side.
Nevertheless - I was awed and thrilled to see what I saw.

Here is a map of the area with our hotel  - click here.

Taking a stroll along Lim Fjord

The architecture was just mind blowing.

I took only 2 pix from this street.  But it is known throughout Denmark as a serious bar hoping and party street. Jomfru Ane Gade .  Not surprisingly the street empties out right at our business hotel. 
Wikipedia says this:

Jomfru Ane Gade (English: Virgin Anne's Street), in Aalborg, is possibly Denmark's most famous street. It is popular with both locals and tourists for its lively atmosphere with all the restaurants and pubs on both sides of the street. It is said to be the street with the longest continuous stretch of restaurants and bars in Denmark. It is particularly busy on warm summer evenings. First the terraces and restaurants fill up and then, as night falls, crowds of younger people walk up and down until they finally end up in one of the many discothèques, each famous for its own type of music.

 The street dates back at least until the end of the 16th century, apparently named after Ane Viffert who in 1568 lived in nearby Skavegade. She is said to have been a nun at Ø Kloster on the Lim  Fjord. For the next 200 years, the street housed the homes of several merchants. Some of their half-timbered houses can still be seen.
The first restaurant, the Gaslight, was opened in May 1967. As a result of its success, the Fyrtøjet opened the following year. By the end of the 1970s, there were a further 10 pubs and restaurants and by 1992, there were 26.

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