Month: August 2024

A final single night back at Camping de Boogaard just east of Gouda. Cool little site next to a canal. Beautiful evening, but then it chucked it down the final morning. Lou did a swim, I didnt go on the SUP board. Then headed off to Hook of Holland for the lunchtime ferry (7 hours!) back to Harwich. Home about midnight.

A single night at Camping Beek en Hei just outside Otterlo, about 20 miles north of Arnhem. It was a stop over as we headed home, so we could visit the  Kröller-Müller Museum. Big sprawling campsite with lots of tents, and rows of neat hedge lined pitches for caravans and motorhomes.

Went to the Kröller-Müller Museum which really good. Similar to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, but with more outdoor art. Lots of funky outdoor sculptures, and hundreds of van Gogh and other artworks inside. Borrowed a free white bike and did a big bike ride round the park. Then off across Holland to the last stop.

A single night at Camping &  Ferienpark Falkensteinsee, about 25 miles west of Bremen. A big holiday park around a beautiful lake. Pretty busy but we liked it. Poshest loos ever! Lake was great – Lou did lots of swims and I went SUP boarding, late at night and early morning, with no one else on it.

Two nights at Svendborg Sunday Camping, further east round the coast from Faaborg, and then over a bridge to a smaller island. Had a pitch just back from the coast, looking over across to Svendborg on Funen island. Did some SUP boarding by the jetty near the campsite, and then a boat trip from Vindebyore at the campsite, up and down the coast on the M/S Helge which was really fun. Svendborg was a really cool town with a big harbour.

Two nights at Sinebjerg Camping, a big campsite on the coast, which was strangely empty, and a super friendly woman on reception. It was pretty windy and we moved to a pitch sheltered by some big trees. Saturday drove a short distance to Faaborg which was a fun colourful little town with the most amazingly yellow church. Lunch at Helios which was a bit like the Phoenix in Leicester. I browsed a massive book on coffee makers! Back to the campsite where they were hosting a bunny jumping competition 😂 It was like show jumping but with bunnies on leads. There was a proper timed course with jumps. I got chatting to them and offered to take some ‘action’ photos for them. Went to Dyreborg, a little harbour just down the coast. Really beautiful, did some boarding in the sea and around the harbour. There were loads of little wooden huts, all along the coast.

Two nights at Limmamn parking spot outside Malmö. A fun but weird place which was basically a big parking lot next to a shipyard. It was full of big white motorhomes, ours was the smallest and most yellow van there. Lou did lots of swims and I did some SUP boarding. Got the bus into Malmö and went to Form Design Centre and saw lots of cool shops and buildings. Had a nice lunch and an ice-cream in the food hall. We sort of did our own thing which was a lot better than trying to wander around together in Copenhagen. Malmö was fab :). Went to the Form/Design Center and the Malmö Konsthall and found the Davidshall area in Gamlastaden which had a funky little square. Stopped off at the Wes Anderson swim spot at Ribersborgs where Lou had a sauna, naked apparently… Kept getting woken up by the seagulls at dawn, which wasn’t good! Packed up Friday morning and headed off back over the Oresund crossing, into Denmark again. It was chucking it down so it was a good day for travelling.

Four nights at Tangloppen campsite about 15 miles out of Copenhagen. Had a quiet pitch almost in the far corner. Really fab campsite within a little lagoon surrounded by 100s of boats. Big boatyard next door and the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art about half a mile away, by a long sandy beach. I did some SUP boarding in the lagoon, Lou went swimming and we went to the museum which had an exhibition of Anish Kapoor. Went into Copenhagen for the day with a bus and train, but we should have had a bit more of a plan and ended up walking around a bit aimlessly and not seeing much. More SUP boarding and swimming the next day. Wednesday we packed up and went to the xx swim spot which was a huge wooden spiral about 50m off the coast, accessed via a walkway. Lou went swimming and then we drove on a bit further, over the Oresund tunnel/bridge crossing to Malmö in Sweden.

Down to Harwich after work on Wednesday, and then the overnight ferry to Hook of Holland. Early start the next day and a long drive through Europe to Camping ABC Großensee just outside Hamburg. It is right next to a large swimming lake which you can get to via a bridge and a gate. Spent 2 nights there, Lou did lots of swims, but we couldn’t use the SUP board 🙄 on the lake and a lot of it seemed inaccessible. Off to Denmark via a ferry to Rødby.