The Danish islands

As I may have written in a previous post, Denmark consists of the Jutland peninsula and a whole lot of islands. To be exact, there are 1419 islands of 100m2 or more. Of these, 443 are named and of these, 72 are inhabited. The smallest inhabited island is Birkholm, and that is today's mystery destination! Birkholm is 0.9 Km2 big, it's highest point is 2m above mean sea level and it has 10 permanent inhabitants. Most of the (very few) houses are used as holiday accommodation. We saw 30% of the population: a fisherman, the harbour master who came to collect his 80 Kroner and a lady who sells Tupperware (really!) from her shed.
Of course the harbour is also tiny, it's completely full tonight with 16 boats.

Here are some impressions:




Harbour.





Oops. The postboat, which calls twice a day (only once in winter) leaves at the same time as a boat enters the harbour. The entrance only takes one boat at a time.





This is the 'butik', the shop. The fridge on the left has bottled water and frozen bread. The one on the right ice cream (ice cream is a big thing in Denmark, which - considering the relatively low temperatures - is surprising). In between the fridges, second hand books and packets of sweets.




As so often, the shop works on an 'honesty system', this is the till.... Take your stuff and leave the money.

And of course lots of peace and quiet: