We passed under the Oresund Bridge (Öresund or Øresund Bridge depending on whether you live on the Danish or Swedish side) on the way from Stockholm to Aalborg.

I had thought we would do so when sailing from Copenhagen to Warnemünde but we seemed to turn north out of Copenhagen (I could just about make out the bridge in the southern distance) and then west. At that point we had to go in to dinner so I assumed the ship travelled down the west side of Zealand then instead of passing under the bridge.

Unfortunately it was about one o’clock in the morning when we passed under the bridge – and dark; so the photos aren’t much cop.

Video. (It was quite windy):-

Closer appraoch:-

Eastern support tower:-

Video. (I don’t know whose the voices are. Other people were also enjoying the experience):-

Jellyfish in Limfjord:-

The eastern side of Aalborg has some striking modern architecture:-

A water-skier was practising in this inlet:-

Modern Buildings and older tower:-

Taking an underpass below the railway we found a nice park in Aalborg: the Kildeparken.

There were two small thatched buildings there. One seemed to be a public convenience, the other may have been a caretaker’s hut. Pity about the grafitti:-

There was also a walkway with statues along its sides. This one is of the Three Graces:-

The park is also home to the Singing Trees. Each performer at Aalborg’s Concert Hall is asked to plant a tree alongside which is a device containing a recording of a sample of their music.

Sadly during our visit none the playbacks we tried were working. Here’s a clip from You Tube where they were:-

Aalborg (see earlier post) had some nice older buildings in streets quite near the city centre:-

Looking one way, then the other in another old street:-

The first building we encountered after crossing the road between the dock and Aalborg‘s centre contained above a window this rather lovely mural of a sailing ship. (I think it was made of tiling):-

Then there was this almost Tudor style building:-

This seemed Dutch in appearance:-

And this was the closest approach to Art Deco:-

Another vaguely Tudorish building, off a side street, complete with fountain in front:-

More Dutch style here:-

This isn’t the sort of view normally associated with fjords. The word usually conjures up images of steep, almost mountainous sides and a narrow waterway.

This however is the Limfjord, which cuts Jutland in Denmark in two. And the countryside by its banks is flat. I thought that perhaps in Danish the word fjord just means inlet. (It seems it does, if you type ‘fjord’ on the ‘Danish’ side of this link. In all the other Scandinavian languages ‘fjord’ translates as ‘fjord’.)

We sailed up the easternmost bit of the Limfjord on our approach to the last stop on the trip, Aalborg, Denmark’s fourth largest city.

Our approach to Stockholm had been overnight so we hadn’t seen the environs. On the way out in the evening we found it is a beautiful set of islands through which the ship made its way. Back in the day I suppose these must have made Stockholm very easily defensible from the sea.

It must be great to be able to jump into your yacht and take off:-

The coach had dropped us off near Gamla Stan – old Stockholm, well worth a wander round. (In pre-coronavirus days anyway):-

Art Nouveau-ish Building, Gamla Stan, Stockholm:-

Church and bridge round corner from Gamla Stan:-

Traditional architecture:-

Gustav II Adolf (Gustavus Adolphus) statue and building opposite Riksdag and Opera House, Stockholm:-

More modern Swedish style:-

National Museum:-

View from Royal Palace:-

From near Opera House:-

Waterfall issuing from inside the Palace:-

There were two of these cascades, one either side of the building as it faces the waterfront at th eends of the wings. I took a video of one of them:-