Roll Over – May 17, 2023

  • Møn: Day 6
  • Distance: 11.2 miles / Total 80.5 miles / 18 km
  • Time: 8 hours
  • Ascent: 440’ Decent: 485’
  • Weather: 53 degrees 23 mph wind / overcast with patchy sun in afternoon

A five-inch tall downy Vibeunge was waddling across the road. A burst of wind lifted him up and soundly dropped him. He rolled over and over like tumbleweed. The Vibeunge righted himself, gave a few shakes as if stumbling from a few too many drinks, then ambled across the road. I think I was more traumatized than the bird.

Vibeunge
Bird Blind on Nyord Island
View from bird blind. Flat wetlands. Nyord Island is a bird sanctuary.
Wheat and water on Nyord Island.

Stege’s Outskirt – May 17, 2023

  • Møn: Day 6
  • Distance: 12 miles / Total 69.3 miles / 20 km
  • Time: 6 hours 50 minutes
  • Ascent: 655’ Decent: 634’
  • Weather: 51 degrees 21 mph wind / overcast with patchy sun in afternoon

The outskirt of Stege is a more natural and inviting version of the America’s suburbs.

Curbside appeal.
Comes with a swing set.
Solar panels…nice touch.

Bakery – May 17, 2023

  • Møn: Day 6
  • Distance: 11.2 miles / Total 80.5 miles / 18 km
  • Time: 8 hours
  • Ascent: 440’ Decent: 485’
  • Weather: 53 degrees 23 mph wind / overcast with patchy sun in afternoon

It’s now or never. Stege has the only bakery on Møn. Without a second thought, I loaded up on pastries. Isn’t flakey pastries the perfect and complete fuel for walking? PBJ comes in a distant second.

Stege’s Bakery
Stege’s Bakery
Some of my pastry selections.

Burial Mound – May 16, 2023

  • Møn: Day 5
  • Distance: 12 miles / Total 69.3 miles / 20 km
  • Time: 6 hours 50 minutes
  • Ascent: 655’ Decent: 634’
  • Weather: 51 degrees 21 mph wind / overcast with patchy sun in afternoon.

Kong Asher’s Høj burial mound dates to the New Stone Age. A mile away, it looked like a giant pimple or an otherwise flat landscape. It had to to have been a man made feature or a flying saucer covered with dirt.

Giant pimple or flying saucer?
Kong Asher’s Høj burial mound dating back 6,000 years ago.
Entering on hands and knees.
Exiting on hands and knees.

DKK 500 – May 16, 2023

  • Møn: Day 5
  • Distance: 12 miles / Total 69.3 miles / 20 km
  • Time: 6 hours 50 minutes
  • Ascent: 655’ Decent: 634’
  • Weather: 51 degrees 21 mph wind / overcast with patchy sun in afternoon.

Iconic Queen Alexandrine Bridge scans between Møn Island and Sealand. Its image is on the DKK 500 bill ($73)…which isn’t printed in Denmark.

Queen Alexandrine Bridge
Iconic bridge
USD 75

Elmelunde Church – May 15, 2023

  • Møn: Day 4
  • Distance: 17.6 miles / Total 57.3 miles / 28.3 km
  • Time: 9 hours 10 minutes
  • Ascent: 617’ Decent: 665’
  • Weather: 65 degrees / sunny…warmest day

Dating to 1584, the Elmelunde Church is noted for its chalk painting. Ships suspended from the ceiling signify the role the church plays as a refuge from life’s storms.

Elmelunde Church
Elmelunde Church chalk painting.
Refuge from life’s storms.
Refuge from life’s storms.
Elmelunde Church