Day 5: Haderslev – Aalborg

The next morning Ida prepared some leftover pasta as breakfast.
I then left for the hitchhiking sport Malthe described the day before.

On my way out of Haderslev

When I was about 50 meters from the spot (walking backwards to the spot with my thumb in the air) and even before I arrived at the spot someone already stopped who was on route to somewhere near Kolding.

He was on his way to an apartment he had just bought and was going to inspect the carpenter’s work.
He had picked up hitchhikers before he said and I asked if he had any remarkable stories.
This one time he picked up a girl and after 5 minutes in the car she started touching him and tried to give him a BJ. He promptly kicked her out of the car.
So there you have it, another reason for me to get my driver’s license.
He dropped me off at a rest stop at the north of Kolding.

After not too long a couple picked me up.
They lived in Germany for a long time already but were both Danish. The husband had a lot of experience with hitchhiking. When he was younger he had once hitchhiked for 6 months straight. Along the way he told some interesting things about the Danish landscape. Most of the Danish forests, especially near the highway, are not very thick (400-800 meters) but are quite long (tens of kilometers).
When crossing the German-Danish border the change in scenery is noticeable immediately. There are a lot more open spaces, farmland I think .
We also saw the highest “Mountain” of Denmark, it’s a hill approximately 190 meters high.
They drove me to a rest stop north of Aarhus.

At that  rest stop I found a couple willing to drive me all the way to Aalborg.
There they showed me where I could store my bag in a locker, which came in very handy because my host would only be available after 17:00.

I walked around in Aalborg and checked out a local Supermarket to see what the differences are in products with a Belgian supermarket.
I found some funky colored drinks which I wanted to try out.
What I didn’t notice but was explained by my hosts later was that the content of the bottles needed to be mixed with water before drinking.