54 miles
In true Cavendish style, on the morning sprint to the toilet block, Derek came to grief in the gravel trap. Injuries sustained won't keep him out of the tour, but have denied him yet another stage win and ensured that I retained the yellow jumper.
Arrived at the ferry with medical support (Savlon) to witness amazing roll on, roll-off system. 15 minutes turn around for a fair sized ferry, which incidentally also takes high speed train as we learnt to our cost later. We were the only cyclists. We had to park our bikes on their stands - nowhere to strap them to - in front of a double trailer HGV.
We were allowed to disembark first but were told to pull off to the side until all the vehicles were away. We saw what we thought was the ferry guy waving us on and set off into the path of the boarding intercity train which sounded its horn at us. Having survived this experience we set out on Danish route 7.
Glory be! For the first time this trip we had a following wind and fairly sped along to Sakskoving where we had a sandwich break and our first encounter with the Danish cost of living.
Onwards we sped crossing an enormous but somewhat dilapidated bridge across the water to Vordingborg. Here whilst stopped at traffic lights our personal guides picked us up (an elderly couple who stopped behind us) and escorted us into town and gave us directions to route 56.
Before moving on we had time for yet another cultural experience. The second of the trip after Lubeck. We visited Vordingborg Castle the seat of powerful kings in the middle ages such as Valdemar the Victorious. He resided in the ' Goose Tower' which still stands and is the best medieval tower in the whole of Scandinavia.
Cycled on looking for campsite which we found at (Hey) Praesto. On enquiring whether they had wifi the old geezer running the spot said yes. We duly signed in and paid. I asked for the code and he informed us he didn't have wifi. B-----d! Hence late blog. Compensations were first use of camping seats and beer from the supermarket to drink while sitting in them for a relaxing two hours. I must be going soft!
Beer of the day - Svaneke Blonde. (Brewed in Bryghus (or should that be Brighouse?)
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