This Aarhus site is really good, the facilities are excellent and the pitches are nicely sheltered, and it turned out good value 98 DKK (in my simple conversion £10 including a beer and a shower – all done on a card). There is also a cafe but I decided to use the kitchen this morning. Got away by about 9:30, and a tailwind pushed me pretty much all day. My average speed was above 20kph, and I was seeing 50 plus on the downhills – yes there were hills, but I do prefer them than flat all day, when there is no end to the pedalling.

First town was Randers, which I have heard of before, because it has a speedway team. No sign of a track, but I didn’t look very hard (at all). Looked like a nice town busy with people having early lunch in the sunshine, I settled for a quick coffee. It looks like getting food in Denmark is much easier than Holland and Germany, as every petrol station is a mini shop, (often unmanned automatic pumps in the other countries) plus there seem to be Lidl, Aldi and Rex100 everywhere.

Shortly after leaving Randers, the Cycleway ran out!!!! I had to cycle on the road (with high speed, but courteous traffic), for the first time since the UK.

Did 20km or so on the road, traffic certainly helps keep your speed up, but with the tailwind I was often flying. Just before Hadsund, the route turn off onto a grassy Cycleway 5, this is an old railway line and a most of it is tarmacked, with odd bits of stoney paths. It really is a fine and varied route. Not many other users, but around 2 the schools must have finished and there was plenty then. On one long stretch between villages, a tiny kid coming home from school came pedalling the other way – I’m guessing 5 or 6 – excellent, wouldn’t see that in the UK.

The route got a little tortuous around some farms, and across a Moose sanctuary (although they looked like cows to me), and eventually I ended up on a headland with water all around me. I’d lost the Cycleway 5 sign, and was following the Google route for cycles (and pedalos) with no sign of a lake Typically it started to rain as I was retracing my steps.

Had to get a short ferry to Hals, and the cafe was open to wait in the dry with a coffee. Equally there was no where to shelter on the ferry, however the supermarket provided an awning (albeit for garden sales), so I could go shopping. Another few km to a campsite, with the rain levels varying. A very big site, which is just out of season, lots of work on the pool and other facilities (all very good, kitchen, indoor sitting area) – for £10 very good value. It did stop raining and I walked down to the beach, the whole area is sand dunes – with forest/ fauna and sandy beach as far as the eye can see.