It was time to move on and we headed west on this island across another amazing bridge - called The
Storebaelt t

o the island of
Funen. This bridge is longer than the one from
Malmo! The bridge was completed in 1998 and basically connected Copenhagen and its island to Continental Europe. The project incorporated both railway and road bridges. It took 10 years to build.
We stopped at
Nyborg, which is the first town off the bridge. It is quite a nice town founded 7 centuries ago. My "
looky/pointy" language failed me in the town. I was trying to get 1 Danish pastry that was in the window, but I ended up with a whole coffee cake. I didn't have the nerve to say no - to top it off, it had nuts in it! (Nuts, for me, is right up there with mustard on my dislike list.) So.......we stopped at the Tourist Office and this lady was so nice and helpful - guess what, she got the coffee cake!
As we were d

riving along we sighted a field of hay bales -
actually a storage lot of hay bales. There were 5 or 6 rows of hay stacks. The picture only shows 2. The
Danes are "making hay while the sun was shinning. " We are not sure where it all goes.
We headed north to
Ladbyskilbet which is Denmark's only Viking Age ship grave. A new museum was just finished here and it is very nice. The main area i

s a short walk down a path to a restored burial mound. Back in the Viking days, a chieftain was laid to rest in a warship with all of his treasures - kind of like the Egyptian pyramids. This grave had been looted long ago, but the bones of many of the chief's animals were left plus the outline of the hull and the metal
pieces. It was falling apart, so the site has now been preserved. It is quite impressive.
Then we headed to
Odense, our overnight destination. This place is the birthplace of Hans Christian Anderson. This is the first place that we have been less than impressed with - it is dirty. We did go see the large church and the city center, but we will be ready to move on tomorrow.
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