The alarm went just before seven and it started to rain.
The outside temperature was 11°C and it felt positively cold – two
days ago it was 37°! Then the thunder started and the rain seemed set in for
the day. Fortunately, after four hours the rain stopped and we decided to risk
the 20-30 minute walk into town. Our first visit was the Viking Museum and this
proved to be excellent. Very interesting exhibits with much information in
English. A temporary exhibition was based on a town in China in the same period
as the Vikings in Ribe – an interesting contrast. The other advantage was that
there was free wifi in the museum café and we were able to catch up with
emails.
The campsite provided a free, comprehensive Ribe walking
tour leaflet in English and we happily spent the rest of the afternoon
wandering around the very pretty town centre. I was intrigued to find that the
cathedral offered free wifi! Most churches would want people to turn off their
phones rather than encouraging them to use them!
We joined Andy and Glenn for pre-meal drinks before they
headed off to town on their bikes for their last meal out in Denmark.
Photos:
A model in the Ribe Viking museum showing Ribe as it was in Viking times; A
typical old wood-framed house in Ribe – the two holes in the gable end used to
be for owls!; This ceiling of an alleyway in Ribe has been decorated for the
last five years with different scenes – this one shows the (entirely
fictitious) Nazi siege of Ribe in 1940.
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