Day 42. May 23. Monday.

How lucky am I? Invited up to the northernmost part of Denmark by my 3P friend, the wonderful Susanne Lanng, goldsmith/jewelry maker extraordinaire, to explore a place I never would have gotten to otherwise. [One of her works is shown here] After breakfast we took a walk with umbrellas in the rain on the nice, dune-filled beach at Skagen (Skain–the “g” is silent). Interesting summer resort town for the Danish rich and famous, which is now pretty dead pre-season but has a nice feel to it. Just about all the buildings are painted yellow with red roofs, except for Susanne and her husband Gorn’s place, which is pink.

After the beach we ate lunch at the Skagens museum, where Gorn is chief security guard, then I went into the museum and saw truly beautiful paintings by Anna and Michael Ancher, P.S and Marie Kroyer and others who had all gravitated to this artist’s colony in the late 1800s. Despite my mother being an art history teacher I don’t remember hearing of any of these painters, and they are really good!

Then Susanne and I took another walk on a different dune-filled beach, this time to the beach’s northernmost tip where the North Sea’s Skagerak Strait and the Kattegat Bay come together with waves crashing into each other at an almost 45 degree angle, except there wasn’t much crashing today because the sea was quite calm. Nice, relaxing day.