Distance: 58.31km | Climbing: 94m – Click here for GPS Route
After three rest days spent between Gothenburg and Frederikshavn, we hit the road again, this time southwards in the direction of Aalborg, where we hoped to grab a train back to Copenhagen in three days’ time.
We took it easy, cooking breakfast and slowly packing up our tent before hitting the road at 10:30am. We eased our way southwards along the coast, enjoying scenic coastal cycle paths and passing through tranquil villages.
From the village of Sæby we enjoyed a relaxed journey through coastal farmland, taking a mix of backroads and gravel tracks for the next forty kilometres, all the way to the small fishing village of Hou.
We arrived in Hou at 5:30pm with plenty of daylight still left in the day. We could have pushed on, but we only had another 33 kilometres to go until Aalborg, and more importantly, Hou was home to some free shelters where we could spend the night.
These three shelters provided the perfect place to stop and rest. We cooked up dinner on the barbeque stand in the middle of the campsite, enjoyed eating it on the picnic bench and then bedded down on our sleeping mats inside one of the shelters. We were really enjoying the ease and simplicity of these wooden shelters which were so abundant in Denmark. The fact they were free in a country as expensive as Denmark didn’t hurt either!
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