Northern Germany

Flensburg is a port at the head of the fjord of the same name and is Germany's most northerly large city. We walked our feet off looking around the old town and all the not so vertical, historic buildings 

Then off to Kiel but we couldn't find a place to park for the night so we carried on to Lübeck. Kiel will have to wait until another time.

Lübeck is famous for having been the de facto capital of the Hanseatic League. The brick Gothic architecture dates back this medieval time. The city centre is Germany's most extensive UNESCO World Heritage Site. There were so many beautiful buildings.

The city was heavily bombed during WWII and many buildings have been reconstructed.

Here is just a small selection of the photos I took which really don't do them justice:

These cities were major ports in the Hanseatic league, a large trading federation that lasted over 400 years from the 12th century.

For a number of reasons we have decided to split this trip in two. We will continue to the Baltic countries and the rest of Scandinavia next year. So now we are heading back to Spain for the remainder of the summer. 

Denmark part 2 - North Jutland

Tuesday 14th July - We caught the ferry from Kristiansand (Norway) to Hirtshals in Denmark. I found us a nice campground not far from the town and just missed a lovely sunset over the North sea

Friday afternoon we headed down to Aalborg. We saw the Jørn Utzon center - he designed the Sydney Opera House.

 Here are a few old buildings

Sunday saw us heading down to Aarhus, Denmark's second largest city. We stayed at a campground only a few kilometres walk from the centre 

That's it for now. We'll be back to discover the rest of Denmark, including Copenhagen, in the autumn. The 

Next stop - Flensburg, Germany