18.08.2025 Middelfart & Fredericia marinas.

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  Monday 18th 58F/14.4C. Bright sunshine. Another sunny day and 24C is promised. Steadily more cloudy and cooler over the next few days.

 Up at 6.30 after a very quiet night.

 8.00 Time for a walk. 

 8.35 Back again. The traffic was much heavier this morning. I was glad to get off the road onto the harvested fields. Where I spotted three deer. A very unusual sight. They were grazing out in the middle of the stubbled prairie. My pet name for the 1000x1000m field. Which leads up to the forest on the hill. 

 The deer were almost in line with the distant radio tower. None of my futile attempts at telephoto images on my phone were worth sharing. I must be doing something wrong in the settings. My pictures are heavily pixelated. I dragged the now empty, recycling bins back with me. Closely watched by the ponies. Which are finally beginning to lower the average height of the grass on the front field. Even given their amazing efficiency this is no mean feat. 

 The plan is to go and look at another marina. This time to the north. Middelfart beckons today. A town on the strait between Fyn and Jylland [Jutland.] Joined by two bridges. An early 2th century girder "old" bridge and a much later motorway bridge. "Fart" in Danish means speed or haste. The town name probably refers to the crossing by earlier boat or ferry of the strait. 

 18.00 Returning from a drive to Middelfart and Fredericia. My sister is an expert on boats. So we visited two more marinas and I was brought me up to speed on the finer technicalities. 

 Again we enjoyed lunch under the umbrellas at an outdoor pub restaurant. Crossing The Old Bridge was beset with delays. Due to temporary traffic lights. We shopped on the way home.

After rapid re-hydration with non-alcoholic beer we started on the car again. This time with polish and trim and tire reviver. The result was remarkable. Dinner was more alcohol free beer and a Cheddar cheese roll.

 

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