Today we said goodbye to our lovely sommerhus and hit the road with Christina and Thomas en route to their house west of Copenhagen. They live on Zealand, the largest of the Danish isles. Until less than 30 years ago this trip would not have been possible entirely by road: travel from Jutland to Zealand would have required a ferry trip. Today it is possible, thanks to the Storebæltsbroen — the impressive bridge spanning the Storebælt (Great Belt) strait between Zealand and the smaller island of Fyn / Funen (which in turn is connected to Jutland by bridge across the Lillebælt or Little Belt). The ferries that used to crisscross the strait no longer run.

We arrived in Borup around mid-afternoon. Susannah had arranged to meet her former student Sanita for an early evening chat. We took the train in to Valby, a district of Copenhagen, where she met us at the station. We had a delightful time catching up at an outdoor cafe, then explored our surroundings a little bit on foot before catching another train home as the sun was setting.