When I got up in the morning, Flemming wasn’t there. Soon he was back, with fresh eggs for breakfast from a farm nearby.
The tea kitchen in the former stable had all the necessary things, many of them brought by other pilots, like tea, coffee or sugar. We later contributed with a 1 kg of salt 🙂 which we missed for our soft-boiled eggs and porridge.
After breakfast, Flemming worked, and I had the time to prepare myself for the day.
We wanted to visit Ranes Borg (English: Rane’s Fortress), a historical site with remains of some kind of fortification:
But first – a visit to the local museum (I never had the time for it before!):
Then – a stroll in the marina, lunch, and an ice-cream:
We also attempted to visit Lægeurtehaven (the medicinal herb garden with shop and café), but none of us is really interested in botanics, though Flemming grows lots of different roses in his garden, and orchids at home. We had a quick look and headed for the Ranes Borg.
Ranes Borg was a relatively small place in a forest, a square of large stones measuring 16 x 16 metres:
The site was investigated several times, also by archaeologists, but nobody really knows what it was. The place is called after Rane Jonsen, a noble-born man known for his role in the murder of Erik V of Denmark in 1286, but it is unclear why it is called after him. Probably, Rane Jonsen owned some parts of the island.
Flemming and I biked back to Endelave village, and had an afternoon coffee there. The waiter informally told us, they had some remaining coffee in a thermos, but he was unsure whether it was still warm!
We had plenty of time left, and decided to walk to the north-eastern tip of Endelave. From air, it looked like there was a very nice sand beach there.
What looked so beautiful from the air, was something different on the ground.
On that beach, we discovered a tick (that nasty biting insect that might bring Lyme infection) on my thigh. Luckily, just a couple of days before I bought a tick removal tool and had it with me! Flemming removed the tick – and it wasn’t easy. And then again, we had the beach only for ourselves, and enjoyed swimming:
Back to the airfield, where we had strawberries before leaving home:
We did a round over the island, in order to get the altitude for flying over the Kattegat, and also to say “till next time” to the wonderful places we visited on Endelave:
The flight back home was easy. We had head wind, but not much, and the air was calm. Two happy (and tired after two active days) pilots:
On landing in Holbæk, there were dozens of hares on the runway, and I had to fly over them in order to land longer away. We hadn’t seen that many of hares on Endelave – and there should be up to 15,000 of them, according to the tourist brochures!
I sent Flemming to the club house to have something to eat (a man must never be hungry!), and whilst he was busy with that, washed my Aeroprakt thoroughly.
