Aarhus was more challenging from an airfield finding perspective, as all the airfields are quite a way from town. Luckily we managed to get in contact with the owner of a private strip (Hardy) who very kindly allowed us to land on his strip. But we were a bit concerned when we flew over to discover a Piper in the middle of the runway!
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| and evidently it's normally there, since it's been mown around! |
Luckily there was another runway across alongside the lake, so we took that instead and landed just as it was starting to rain. Hardy & his wife soon arrived in a little SLK, saying that they'd been waiting for us. Oops, that was a miscommunication, we try to tell people when we expect to arrive, but didn't think they'd be kind enough to wait around to drive us in to town too. Unfortunately our bicycles, stuff and ourselves were a little large for the SLK's back seat / boot. So we went to the garage to see if we could jump start the Rolls that had had its lights left on recently. No luck. Frankly I was pretty worried about my tires getting anywhere near that cream upholstery, so back to plan c, a few minutes later Hardy came back with a big trailer hitched to the back of the SLK, bikes in and off we went in the by now heavy rain.
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| Hardy & Lars with another of Hardy's toys |
We were very lucky that Rune from Samso's friend Asbjoern had offered to host us for a few nights in Aarhus. He has a quite amazing apartment in the centre of Aarhus with some really lovely features, including some very old tall succulents / cacti. Asbjoern lives an enviable alternative lifestyle, that involves working on projects as architect / builder, sailing, and travelling the world. He has developed a new interpretation of rune stones, which gives meaning to some of the more abstruse messages, but I won't tell you too much, as there will be a book. A great thing about this trip has been meeting all the different people and seeing how many different ways there are of leading a fulfilling life.
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| I love the peacefulness of this space (and in fact the entire flat) |
We did a lot of bumbling around Aarhus with the bikes, and saw some really lovely buildings. Aarhus has 250K - 350K inhabitants depending on who you speak to, so it's easy to live close to the centre and there are so many fabulous major city touches, like the city centre, first inhabited by the vikings, with remnants of viking houses found under the recently built bank now on display downstairs in the bank. That inspired us to go a bit out of town to see the Mosegaard museum, which has the best preserved peat bog body in the world. It is really amazing, as the peat has tanned the skin so it looks like an incredibly well sculpted piece of ebony. We also saw the oldest glass bead in the world, from Bahrain, which didn't look like much but was pretty interesting. ARoS art museum is really world class, and being a little smaller than the Tate Modern, has a really good scale to look around in one day.
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| ARoS |
Right before leaving Lars took us to
Friland, quite a large area devoted to straw bale houses. We got shown through the guy who organised the area's house, which really impressed me, especially the good insulation and central wood oven that burns one small briquette a day to heat the entire house in winter, as there are pipes taking the heat all around the walls. It even has a spot where you could bake bread if you were so inclined.
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| how beautiful does this one look! I'm not sure if there's a practical purpose for the towers - maybe for water pressure? Ideas anyone? |
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| isn't this stove amazing |
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| This diaphragm styled roof on the above building looks stunning |
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