Lyø

After pulling up the anchor at 9, we reached Lyø before 1pm. Lyø is the most western island of the archipelago south of Funen. We have not been here before. Whilst being quite a typical small Danish island, it has an interesting history and is also very scenic. There are burial mounds dating back to 3500BC (we are going to see them tomorrow and will post a picture).
In 1223 king Valdemar was hunting here and was taken prisoner by a German Count von Schwerin (we have not established yet why the German Count and the Danish King were on this small island at the same time....). And the current population (which by our observation is quite small) descends from 24 families that were banned here after they revolted against their squire in 1540. I find this somewhat worrying with respect to the quality of the gene pool, but that's the story.
This evening we took a walk towards the East and spotted many birds as well as two deer. All very nice! Tomorrow, apart from going to see the burial mounds, we'll visit the church and the graveyard there ('Denmark loveliest graveyard', the brochure announces).
Hopefully, tomorrow's blogpost will have some pictures of all of that. Around midday we plan to go to Faaborg, just an hour away from here.

Location:Lyø Havn,Faaborg-Midtfyn,Denmark