Sunday i returned from Harzen - and then drove back to Aalborg the same night - so i was too knackered to write on Monday.

It was a nice trip, the wheat beer just tastes much better in germany, i even tried a Franziskaner beer, one that i tried in Denmark from a bottle once but didn't like - but in germany it just tasted wonderfully.

Kurhotel Rogener was a nice hotel, great food, and all the people working there was wearing the local Harzen outfit (minus lederhosen).

We went to a place called Blueberry Hill and found ... a guy in lederhosen singing german "schlager" hits! - we didn't understand anything - but sang along anyway and stood on the tables which was apparently customary for particular songs :-)

We also saw where the miners worked to dig out gold and other minerals, it was a cool museum as you actually got to sit in the miners' train and went inside the mountain to see how they worked in those days.

On the way home we swung by the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in nothern germany. I've never been to a concentration camp before so that was quite an experience. Unfortunaetely because of fear of contamination the british soldiers who liberated the camp had to burn it down. So there was no physical witness of the atrocities other than the mass graves.

And, as is custom in Denmark, we bought a lot of cheep whiskey and beer before crossing the danish border. They even had Rochefort 10, my favourite beer, down there - so now i'm loaded with that, a bottle of Laphroic and a bottle of Knockando.

And behold, the sun has finally decided to start warming Denmark again - so i'm almost ready to jump into my shorts and get the obligatory spring-cold.