Bornholm Day 1

What, no slideshow? Photos available only for a very limited time here in my Bornholm set. Click on the "Detail" near my profile pic to see the shots in full.

I wanted to make a video, so I thought of learning Avid Free DV, but editing's taking way too long. Reverted to Windows Movie Maker, but it kept on hanging. So let's go manual.

Now on to the travelogue.

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Quite a full day. Four vans, 31 people in all. There was the predominantly Italian van, the Spanish van, Barrett's van and ours, which was completely international-9 people from 9 countries: Canada, Denmark by way of Pakistan, Spain, Germany, France, China, Latvia, Egypt and Philippines.

Taking the overnight ferry in Køge, we arrived at Rønne at 6am. Watching the sunrise from the water was lovely. We first visited Nyker round church, the smallest of the round churches. Next, we passed by Hasle Røgeriet, where herring is smoked. Probably pretty much like tinapang bangus, though I didn't try it.

We then drove to the seaside town of Allinge for breakfast, happy that the bakery had coffee because it was chilly though sunny. Afterwards, we visited another seaside town, Gudhjem. I went up four girls from the van up to the church. With Anna and Audrey, I quickly walked further up to the windmill.

We passed by Baltic Sea Glass to watch the glassblowing(pricey but beautiful stuff), then descended on Svaneke where we had beer tasting (four kinds of their own brews), followed by lunch at buffet lunch at Pakhuset. Grabbed a small bag of candy at the sweet shop, where they were making candy.

Walked through Bornholm Museum, then had a little hike to Echo Valley. Checked into Danhostel and waited for the cooking team to serve couscous and vegetables for dinner.