ÆrøIsland (Denmark Day 10)
It was a multimodal day! We woke up early to a delicious breakfast buffet to power us for the day ahead. (How many cheeses and fresh baked breads and veggies and yummy goodness?!? I don't know because I forgot to take a pic.) I chowed down and nabbed the new rental bike--adjusted to my particular leg length the day before--to zip on down the hill to the ferry. Was I almost run over in that 5 minutes? Not that time. It felt like a car might hit me at any time in the shared lane. I ran a bit late, but managed to get to the ferry to Ærø Island with some minutes to spare. I've never taken a vehicle onto a ferry before, so riding our bikes into the hold was kind of cool. Bikes, cars, and a dump truck full of soil parked in the hold. Most of us in our crew went up top and outside to enjoy the views and "fresh" air. (Why the air quotes? The ferry's diesel exhaust occasionally drifted down to us. Plus, what seems like a lot of Danish people still ...