Family - Thursday

Today we caught up with Lone (Tonny is unwell), Bente & Peter together with Mette and Søren for the day.

Most of the day of the was spent catching up and having a lot of laughs. 

We visited the cemetery where my Dad's parents and siblings are buried. It is a beautiful and well-maintained cemetery.

We then drove out to Ferring, where my grandparents rented a summer house that I first visited about 64 years ago. It is still there, although modified. We walked along the beach from Ferring to Bovbjerg Fyr (Lighthouse) as the weather turned feral - up to 100 km/hr winds (unusually) from the east. Fortunately the beach faces west and was protected by the high cliffs, so it wwasn’t too bad. But it was unusual for the Nortb Sea to be so calm with the off-shore wind.

We climbed the 150 steps to the Fyr.

There we enjoyed a simple but tasty selection of local meats and cheeses (and a beer) well protected from the 1:100 year gales outside. 

After a quick tour of the adjoining gallery (I clearly gave no taste) we braved the walk back to the car - about 8 degrees with a -10 degree wind chill factor.

On the way we visited the Ferring Church, which has wall mural in the style of the Bayeaux Tapestries, dating they think from the 1200's, but which was only uncovered in the early 1900's.

After gathering all our body parts that had been blown away, we all headed up to Thyboron and visited the Sneglehuset (snail house), a pretty tacky touristy shell house, but one which seved a lovely afternoon tea/coffee and weinerbrod (danish pastry). 

It was too cold and windy to tour the harbour, so we headed home for some to have an afternoon sooze while Søren and I picked up some grasses from a nearby buding site and placed them on the roof of a shed, (hopefully) creating a green roof.

We reassembled at Bente and Peter's house (about 700m away) for a magnificent dinner of crab and torsk (cod) with a wine or three. Another great night of fun (and another cookbook signing).

We walked home the 700m in a pitch black howling gale.