Dual Travelers : Day 6 Skagen Denmark

Hello family and friends. We have had a great day in Skagen which kind of rhymes with prayin! Then “g” is silent. Danish pronunciation makes a soft “j” sound instead of a “g”. There is your Danish lesson today from me! 😂

After breakfast Mark, Susan, David, Michael and I took a walk into the small picturesque port town. We visited the church and shopped a little at one of only 2 stores open on Sunday.

Mark went into the church to get some of the history.

Tiny fire hydrant

We returned to the ship about time for a bit of lunch before heading out on our afternoon tour. A few deserts from lunch. 😋

Skagen (Danish: [ˈskɛˀjn̩]) is Denmark's northernmost town, on the east coast of the Skagen Odde peninsula in the far north of Jutland, part of Frederikshavn Municipality in Nordjylland, 41 kilometres (25 mi) north of Frederikshavn and 108 kilometres (67 mi) northeast of Aalborg. The Port of Skagen is Denmark's main fishing port and it also has a thriving tourist industry, attracting 2 million people annually.

Typical Skagen house: red tiled roof with white trimmings, yellow-plastered walls and a white fence.

Råbjerg Mile is a migrating coastal dunebetween Skagen and Frederikshavn, Denmark. It is the largest moving dune in Northern Europe with an area of around 2 km² (0.4 mi²) and a height of 40 m (130 ft) above sea level. It is also the only major stretch of migrating dunes in Denmark.^[1] The dune contains a total of 4 million m³ of sand. The wind moves it in a north-easterly direction up to 18 metres (59 ft) a year. The dune leaves a low, moist layer of sand behind it, trailing back westwards towards Skagerrak, where the Mile originally formed more than 300 years ago.^[2] Over 250,000 people visit the dune every year.^[3]

Some of our group walked to the top of the Dune. Nope that wasn’t me! 😎

The Sand Covered Church - The old village church from the 14th century is now known as The Sand-Covered Church as only its tower can still be seen. Sand began drifting in from Råbjerg Mile around 1600 and the area surrounding the church became affected by the desertification that destroyed the fields. In 1775, the church door had to be dug free for the congregation to be able to attend the service, and for the following 20 years, the Skageners struggled to keep the church free from sand, without being allowed to close it down. In 1795 the church was closed by royal decree and the body of the church demolished.^[55]^[56]