Horses, salads, and a cat

Lots of words in Danish are similar to English such as the name Horsens which refers to horses (and headlands apparently). So it’s not surprising that the city crest is of a horse and is everywhere; on buildings, bus stops, manholes, rubbish bins. It’s quite nice I think.

We were pleasantly woken to sunshine on Saturday. One thing better than snow, is sunshine and snow! The snow sparkles and the sun on the face is lovely. We took the bikes to town where the main shopping precinct becomes a market place full of stalls and people in the weekends. There are bike stands everywhere including, as we were to discover, air pump stations! Sweet!

Early on a sunny day in winter

Barry leaving the air station with nicely pumped up tyres

 The Danish signature dish, aside from the delectable pastries, are open salad sandwiches. There are salad bars everywhere and the VIA university cafeteria is no different. Food in general seems to be on par with New Zealand but at the university, it’s much cheaper for the students (and me) – coffee is $3 and the enormous salads and open sandwiches are $5.

Yesterday I went for a big walk around the headlands. The houses next to the water are huge. It’s hard to imagine that it gets warm enough for sunbathing, but photos on the internet prove it does. Along the way there were clusters of little batches – or ‘summer houses’, another big thing in Denmark. They reminded me of the boulder Bay walk in Christchurch.

Roll on summer!

Yesterday I also met the first cat I’ve seen in Denmark – other than one in a cage on a train. Dogs are everywhere but not cats. Maybe they are all staying inside for the winter. This fella wasn’t though, and he was lovely and very friendly. 

A Friendly ginger Tom