Our last Sunday started late. Flemming and I were supposed to go on a whole day trip to Jutland, but I didn’t feel well diring the night, and cancelled the flight. After a long sleep I felt I was good again, and we drove to Rørvig, a charming fishing town 35 km north of the Holbæk airport.
The intention was to have lunch at the Rørvig Fisk & Røgeri, an excellent fish store & smokehouse, and to go for a walk by the coastline. Well, we were naive – it is only in the centre of Copenhagen, where I live, everything is always open! Fisk & Røgeri was winter closed… Flemming and I had to settle for the seaside walk. Luckily, we had a termos with tea with us, some fruit and biscuits, the sun was shining – no problem, as they say on Jamaica.
The Aviator enjoyed the walk, too, and demanded a picture of him taken by the snowdrops flowers. In fact, those are my favourite spring flowers, together with another variaty – spring snowflake flowers, and therefore it was very easy for The Aviator to convince me!
Another intention we had, was to visit the brainless cemetery south of Nykøbing Sjælland, which I described in my other blogpost here. I actually found a free book online about the place, in Danish. If you are interested, here is the link. Unfortunately the time went too fast, the weather was too good – and the skies were calling.
We went to my flying club instead of, pulled my Aeroprakt out of the hangar, and taxied to the runway.
We waited for Boye and Thomas to land, before we lined up and took off for a sunset flight:
I loved the soft sunset light and different shadows on the ground:
And there was lots of airborne happiness in the cockpit:
We flew over the places we visited on foot that day, and talked about what we shall see another time we are in the area:
Flemming and I obviously wanted to see the sunset from air, and we had planned our flight so that we would get most out of it:
Korevlen in Sejerø Bay, a beautiful coastal area with sandbars, waders, small dunes and sandy beaches:
And some interesting facts: In the late summer of 1902, the remains of a sun chariot from the Bronze Age were discovered there, when plowing a part of it for the first time. The unique find is today at the National Museum, but a few hundred meters from the site, at a crossroads of Kirkeåsvej, there is a memorial stone.
The sunset was worth waiting for. Flemming took this stunning photo:
The night was clear, and before it got competely dark, I managed to do the first fitting of the canopy cover for my new customer:
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Soon starry night was over us, with Venus and Jupiter on the west:
We stood by the hangar for a long time, stargazing and talking about the Universe…