We essentially complete our exploration of Denmark today, getting to its northern tip. with some sights along the way.
Another of those proverbial forks in the road (we went to the right)...
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"Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse is on the coast of the North Sea and first lit on 27 December 1900.
The lighthouse is on the top of Lønstrup Klint (cliff), 60 metres (200 ft) above sea level. The coast is eroded on average 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) a year. It was expected that the tower would fall into the sea by 2023; however, works to relocate the lighthouse started on 14 August 2019, and on 22 October 2019 the 23 metres (75 ft) high lighthouse, weighing 720 tonnes, was moved 70 m (230 ft) inland on specially built rails. The cost of the move was 5 million Danish kroner (£0.6 million; €0.7 million; $0.75 million) and was paid by Hjørring Council with government funding. The move is expected to secure the future of the lighthouse at least until around 2060."
The lighthouse is on the top of Lønstrup Klint (cliff), 60 metres (200 ft) above sea level. The coast is eroded on average 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) a year. It was expected that the tower would fall into the sea by 2023; however, works to relocate the lighthouse started on 14 August 2019, and on 22 October 2019 the 23 metres (75 ft) high lighthouse, weighing 720 tonnes, was moved 70 m (230 ft) inland on specially built rails. The cost of the move was 5 million Danish kroner (£0.6 million; €0.7 million; $0.75 million) and was paid by Hjørring Council with government funding. The move is expected to secure the future of the lighthouse at least until around 2060."
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Now further up the spit, in Skagen, at its namesake brewery...
...a group of scooter riders roll in - there's hundreds of them up here today on the prowl.
...a group of scooter riders roll in - there's hundreds of them up here today on the prowl.
We press on to Grenen - the tip of the spit. The actual most northern point in Denmark is as shown in the photo, but we, and dozens of other tourists around us head to Grenen to experience extreme north Denmark.
 |  "Grenen (The Branch), a long sandbar spit, was named for its tree-branch shape reaching out from the mainland. Grenen is near (1.5 miles) Denmark's northernmost point and the tip of Skagens Odde, which at a length of 30 km is one of the world's longest spits. If you stand at its outermost tip, you can see the waves crash against one another as the wind blows where the seas of Skagerrak and Kattegat meet."  |
 The final resting place of Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (9 October 1846 – 14 January 1908), a Danish poet, dramatist and painter. |  |
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