Penny has a new occupation, chief assistant at the local launderette in Lubeck, she thinks it’s because she was the only woman in the place and of course all women can work all washing machines and speak to blokes in whatever language they choose!!

Laundry done and van cleaned it was time to fill up with shopping, diesel and lpg before moving on to Denmark. It was a 4 hour drive to Ribe to meet up with our tour group and the weather was atrocious, rain and really strong winds all the way. We just kept thinking that it was better the wind today than Saturday when we go on the ferry.

The wind carried on all night and we didn’t get much sleep at all.

After such a rough night it was a real surprise to wake up to a beautiful looking morning. We all made the most of it and set off to investigate Ribe early, which was good as by lunch it was looking really dodgy and by 2pm chucking it down again.

Regardless Ribe is a beautiful town, so much history, real character and very friendly people. The Viking centre in town wasn’t brilliant but we realised we should have gone to the one 3km out of town, the weather decided otherwise though so we had to miss that one.

We had our first group meal this evening at a retreat next to the campsite. It was very nice indeed and the weather dried up so we could go into town afterwards to tour with the night watch man, which was brilliant.