Disembarked - amazed to see no long lines of tourist rigs ready to sail to Iceland, but rather stacks of lorries and semis servicing local industries. So we were in the last tourist wave to see Iceland in 2014 after all.
Headed to Skagen and the top of Denmark. Stopped at Rabjerg Mile to climb the largest migrating coastal dune in Europe (moves 18mts NE annually), and the enormous plain of sand-blasted stones beyond.
Further on stopped to see the spire of St Lawrence church - the only part not buried under the shifting sands (the struggle to keep the church free of sand was abandoned in 1795).
Enjoyed a late lunch in pretty Skagen, with its quaint yellow-painted houses before heading to the peninsula, past the white and then the grey lighthouses, to reach the most northerly part of Denmark.
Unfortunately the drizzle turned into cold blowy rain by then and we decided to visit Bunker museum part of the "German Military's Atlantic Wall", rather than walk on the beach on the Grenen sandbar, where the Baltic fights it out with the North Sea. Dashed in to the small supermarket in the downpour, and scrounged enough salad for a non-cook dinner - rest of groceries can wait for a bigger town. Pulled over and went to bed - the time zone changes of last 24 hours between, Iceland, Faroe, Norway and Denmark relatively meaningless…
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