Vordingborg to Guldborg, 23Km
I departed from the Hotel Vinhuset in Næstved this morning for the second and final time. I stayed there on a business trip in 2010 with my laptop and the usual business paraphernalia. I’m happier now with the tools of my new trade, my walking pole.
I caught the 08:13 train back to Vordingborg where the Danish Pilgrim trail was waiting to give me a short tour of the town. We went to the church which was open, being a Sunday. Incredibly, there was a Pilgrim stamp so I stamped my credential. After that we went out to see the remains of Vordingborg castle and then straight to the Storstrøm bridge which connects Zealand to Falster. The approach was a bit confusing because they’re building a new bridge and it’s difficult for the walker to navigate to the correct bridge because there are no signs; they don’t expect many walkers, the bridge being 3.2Km long and nothing at either end. The old bridge was built by a British company in the 1930s but the new bridge is being built by the Italians. Once opened, the old bridge will be demolished.
3.2Km is long for a bridge. It felt more like 32Km. The traffic was light but I prayed every time a train passed. Busiest of all was the cycle lane which was too narrow for a bike and me. It seems to have been added as an afterthought, nervously clinging to the decaying steel structure.
It was a relief to reach dry land and after catching my breath I set off across Falster, pausing only at a Shell petrol station to take on 500ml of a rehydration drink. It was 27 degrees and looking like the start of the long hot continental summer but I’ve just received an alert for torrential rain for the next couple of days.
Pilgrimage 
Great shots esp of the thistles & furry things.
Understand the anxiety crossing the bridge…I remember a very long, very high bridge on the VF which had my heart rate elevating!
Sorry to make you look back but…I thought you had posted a shot of a wind turbine blade being re-purposed as a bike shelter. Looking back, I can’t find it…was a dreaming?
I don’t remember the wind turbine bike shelter. I generally don’t mind bridges. Remember the bridge in Shikoku which was 50m high and no real walking path? I seem to remember you crossed it several times!
Sorry, I must have seen the pic online & attributed it to you because you’re there!
Going thru my Shikoku & VF pics to find said bridges. 😉Tunnels are my thing; we all have something don’t we? 🤣
…was “I” dreaming?… 🤦♀️
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Yay! You got a stamp. Congratulations!
Glad you made it across the bridge safely.
I’ve got 6 stamps now!
Kia Ora, Tim I think that’s a Californian thistle being pollinated and they are a huge pest here as is the one in the previous photo. The pollinators is a bumble bee and I’m wondering if you see honey bees on the way. I read that France is thinking of allowing the use again of an insecticide that is fatal to bees but is still legal in the EU. Honey bees are the saviours of food production without which all animal life will not survive. At first I thought the warehouse was an Abbey because of the name on the end! Kia kaha, Vicky
Vicky, thanks for the insight. I know too little about the birds and the bees but I guess there is good and bad in everything. The thistles grow all the way along the Danish Pilgrim trail so I like them although I wouldn’t plant them in my garden. I’ve seen plenty of honey bees and will try to get some photos. As for the insecticides, all I can say is Happy Silent Spring