May- Sunniest month ever!

May has been Denmark's sunniest month ever, according to this newspaper story.

Last Saturday I went to the beach with some mates. It was an hour long trip on a bus to a place called Blokhus, a very popular location in summer. Unfortunetely our bus broke down three kilometers from the town and we had to walk the rest of the way. There was a lot of younger people around, they can't have been any older than fifteen, they were all carrying copious amounts of alcohol. One of my Danish mates told me that Blokhus was a very popular location for younger Danes in summer who come to take drugs, drink and try to get laid.

We finally found the beach and it was impressive. At least it was, until I saw all the cars parked up and down the entire length of the beach! Aside from that fact that it can't be good for the environment, it made the beach look like a car park. I expected more from the Danes.

We set ourselves up on one of the dunes and went to check out the water. It was about 28 degrees but noone was in the water. I soon found out why, it was bloody freezing! Still, I decided that swimming at a beach in Denmark would be good for laugh later on, so I jumped in. I survived probably five minutes in the water before I felt like my feet were going to drop off.

Walking back up to where we were located, I noticed out of the corner of my eye a naked woman. This is pretty common for Denmark but this particular woman was huge! She was lying on two beach towels but really she needed a padded tarpaulin. What was even funnier was a young boy who was poking her nipples with a stick. They were like car aerials, I kid you not. It was a surreal scene. Child with stick poking fat ladies nipples. You don't see that every day do you?

We were on the beach for a few hours before we decided to head back to Aalborg. We were about 100 meters from the bus stop when I saw a bus pull out.
'Don't worry ours doesn't leave for twenty minutes,' my friends told me.
Wrong. That was our bus. We looked on the wrong timetable and the next one wasn't for three hours. We decided to hitchhike. The reason for this is Denmark is a very safe place and we knew people that had hitchhiked around before without any trouble.

We were waiting for maybe ten minutes before a car pulled up. The driver was a young guy and he had his son in the back who was about six years old. I thought he was very trusting to pick up three strangers especially with a young kid in the car but we were greatful. It took half the time that the bus took and we had a nice conversation with this guy about Denmark.

He dropped us off back in Norresundby (top end of Aalborg) and I noticed that I was badly sunburned. Even though I used suncream i missed some spots and now my legs and feet look like the colour of the Danish flag (the red, not the white). When will I learn?