Aarhus; Wednesday, 04 August, 2010

I had a brief wander around town, mostly trying to find the bus stop for the bus out to the Moesgård Museum. Eventually I found it and after a succession of empty buses on other routes went past the only one to be heaving happened to be the one I needed. It was full of young kids and for a while I feared they would also be going to the museum, but they got off at a park just outside of the centre of town.

The museum is located about 10KM south of the city centre in a former palace and is most famous for the perfectly preserved body of the Grauballe Man which was discovered in a bog in the 1950’s. Today he takes pride of place in the centre of the museum.

The museum grounds hold a number of examples of different types of burial grounds such as barrow graves and passage graves and there is a pleasant (when it isn’t raining) 4KM walk around the grounds taking them all in. With a couple of judicious stops in dense wood I managed to avoid virtually all of the rain and made it back to the start point dry.

I caught the bus back into town and wandered round to the Occupation museum. After looking around there I had a wander through town and found myself in the very pleasant botanic gardens above Den Gamle By. I had a long walk through the gardens and eventually found myself right out the back of town with the skies closing in.

So, given I had a free travel ticket with the Århus card I jumped on the bus and stayed on the bus until the sudden shower had passed. Thankfully this coincided with the bus pulling up at a stop near the hotel so I was able to get off, wander back to the hotel and drop my stuff off before heading back out for dinner.

After dinner I had a bit of a wander along the banks of the Å. I wandered back through town and just as I was approaching the cathedral felt the first heavy spots of rain. I managed to scamper back to the hotel just in time, getting in a couple of seconds before another spectacular cloud burst.

As it was gone 9:30, and I’d had quite a good meal I thought it would be a good time to turn in for the night.