The entire trip, from one side of the country to another, on a bus, took less than four hours.
On the way we passed through a town which was at one point the center of the European lace industry. There, we ate fish. Honestly, I would have to say that cold pickled herring is not really something I'd want to eat more than once.
Ribe, being the oldest town in Denmark is also home to the oldest cathedral in Denmark as well as the oldest street. NOT, however, the oldest houses. Denmark suffered through a lot of fires in the fifteen hundreds (Ribe and Copenhagen, at least) and so most of the architecture from earlier than that burned to a cinder.
Fun Ribe facts:
-The smallest home in Ribe is 25m square. It was, when it was built, home to seven people.
-If you buy a home in Ribe, you have to live in it. This is so the town will not become a time-share tourist town or a vacation town.
-The night watchman in Ribe carries a mace and sings to you.
-The Cathedral building has some of the most wonderful churchy insides I've ever seen. Pictures below. The man who did the work at the front studied with Chagall.
-Bits have been dug up/found lying around in Ribe that date back to the 700's.
Observations:
1) Denmark being so small makes it much more sensical that many Danish people consider a one hour car ride to be a long trip
2) Rollerblades may be making a comeback. Or, for some people, perhaps they never left.
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