Skagen, land's end

Last Saturday, we decided to take a day trip from Aalborg to the very northern tip of Denmark, to Skagen. We took a funky little blue train, which you can see in the photo, which we had also taken up to the ferry to go to Norway.

We walked through town and out on to the beach to walk toward the very tip of Denmark. One of the first things we saw was an old- fashioned derrick, or loader, like the one that my father used to put loose hay from wagons up on to a tall stack. This is one along the beach in Skagen.

I was going to add a few more things, but Blogger seems to be having a crisis. So here is a last image, a World War II artillery bunker facing out to sea that is sliding off the dune where it once sat out towards the sea. It turns out that the Nazis invaded Denmark via the land and by air, so it did not help much. The best laid plans of mice and men do oft times go astray.

(Thanks to Mike Thompson who noted that these bunkers were actually created by the Germans as the main Danish part of their Atlantic Wall. Did not do them much good, either, as the big landing was in Normandy, and a front against the Germans was opened in Denmark later anyway.)