Summervacation Part 2

Sorry for the delay, but life didn't feel like blogging the past weeks. But here we go.
The next day we went to Ribe in Denmark, it is not that far away from Schobüll. Ribe is a very old town and very important in danish and northfrisian history.

We parked our car and walked a bit to come into the old part of the town.

There is a lot of water running through Ribe, enough for mills and a small harbour. Nowadays there are mostly private sailboats, but one can easily imagine that it was crowded with merchant vessels in the Middle Ages.

There were lots of old and very old houses. That's how towns can look like when no war threw bombs on them. Every now and again there were nice views through open doors into the courts, which are typical for danish towns. Sometimes there are cafés there or small restaurants.

Ribe was a bishop's town from old, so the dome is very represantative. It combines a light, elder romanic part with younger gothic extensions in red brick stone. Funnly they didn't put a steeple to the gothic tower, maybe they didn't have enough money for that.

We even found quiet places, as the main road was crowded with tourists. But just one turn to the left took us into small lanes.

At this fountain I found that Punky had again played the role of a stowaway.

This is one of the six monasteries that excisted in Ribe.

This is a museum which architecture reminds me a lot of the Nordic Museum in Stockholm.

We bought us some yummy ice cream and walked on. But Punky was grumpy. Which is not so unusual for her.
And then she

stole my cone. I didn't get it back.

Punky was in a far better mood after that deed of hers. Me - not so.

Aren't those hollyhocks beautiful? They grew everywhere. I love them.

On our way back we had a look over to Mandö but we didn't risk to drive over.

This is one of the typical danish land churches.

The day ended with an idyllic evening.

And even the sleep went to sleep.