I arrived at Heathrow at about 10.30pm with nothing more interesting happening on the way than the coach leading our convoy to Ringwood losing an ear at Hurn, requiring all three coaches to stop while the drivers retrieved it from the roadside. The pod was nice and easy to find and then because I don't like going into the pod and staying put all night, I went to wander Terminal 4. Even at 11 at night, it was still hot and without heading for another terminal I co...

On my last day in Denmark, I didn't really have time to go far. My flight was at 7.10pm so I thought I'd have a look at Aalborg. I'd spotted the fjord on the bus on the way back from Skagen and the route seemed very simple so off I went, all my luggage on my back. June 5th is a bank holiday in Denmark so everything was closed. That was ok. I'd been in a few shops and I had enough food to last and the 7Eleven at the station would be open for bits and pieces. I ...

On Monday morning, I started with breakfast of as many rolls as I could eat, a bowl of cereal and more apple juice than a human being should be able to drink and then went to the station. I planned to go to the beach and that required me to go to Frederikshavn. I thought the trains were quite regular but according to the board, I'd have to wait an hour and a half for one. Either that, or take a rail replacement bus and given the choice, I thought I'd look at Aa...

It has been a very long day. I started off quite late, all my luggage on my back, wandering Odense, looking for the canal where you can go on the boat. Not because i wanted to go on any boats but i wanted to find it. That took a while, wandering the back streets and then following the river. By the time I reached the lock (where there was a sculpture of a horse in the river, a horse with frilly fins, a river-horse, therefore an actual hippopotamus, I'd realised...

I was woken at just after four this morning by a crashing noise and what I took to be a bright flash of light, convinced a bomb had gone off. It hadn't, of course - strange noises happen at night and there had been no flash of light, just very bright sunlight through thin curtains far too early in the morning. It was only as I was leaving that I discovered there are blackout blinds on the windows. I got myself to the station, managed to navigate the automatic t...