Russia and Scandinavia 2014: DENMARK

Fredericia, Denmark

Wednesday 7th August 2014 Day 27 (day 12 of the cruise).

Fredericia, is a historic Dutch military stronghold on the end of the Jutland Peninsular. It's got the usual fortified walls, historic monuments and military remains throughout. Today it is still the major barracks of the Royal Dutch Army's Signals Regiment.

Today was the first time Fredericia had ever had a large cruise ship. And the town went all out – a bit like Napier in NZ.

People dressed in national costume, old cars, huge crowds.

Lots of school groups were out to see the ‘big ship’ and even a nursing home was out for the day.

Politicians were there, and the town mayor.

As we came into the port this morning they fired cannons!

We then walked around town and saw cool things. Including some of Sarah's friends.

Andy - we thought you might like this paint job - that special rust paint!

Nice buildings.

OK. I'll stop!

Interesting art works.

And this is just because we are SO very mature.

The Jewish Cemetery.

Sarah was very annoying - Something had to be done!

(These photo are low quality so that I could get them up. I'll replace with high quality later)

Look, they are selling our grasses as garden plants!!

Then a walk down to the beach. It is breeding season for the Pink Jellyfish.

But they don't look very pink!

A walk thorough the suburbs where we saw a marching band practicing.

And back to the ship for some well earned R&R.

Sail away was at 6pm. By about 5pm the crowds started to arrive. By 5.45 there were literally thousands of people gathered to see us off. There was a marching band, a re-enactment military band, dogs, prams, skateboarders, people on bikes, the newspaper, TV cameras, all the town officials and more.

The band played, the cannons were fired, people cheered and more than a few photos were taken.

And of course everyone on board crowded the rails to cheer and yell.

The Captain blew the horn may times and off we went, escorted by about 40 pleasure craft.

Then, later that night we got the long version of the aerial show, and it was great. Three 'dances' were hooked up on huge bungy cables and hung and swung from the roof.