Elmelunde Church – May 18, 2023

  • Møn: Day 7
  • Distance: 12 miles / Total 92.5 miles / 20 km
  • Time: 7 hours
  • Ascent: ???’ Decent: ???’
  • Weather: 51 degrees 4 mph blue sky with white clouds

Elmelunde Church dates back to 1085. Its frescoes were covered by layer after layer of limewash during the Reformation. This tall church can be seen from miles away and was used as a landmark by sailors in the Baltic Sea.

Elmelunde Church
Biblical Fresco
Elmelunde Church
The suspended ship signifies the role of the church as a refuge from life‘s great storms. For Abbey.
The church can be seen from miles away and was a landmark for sailors on the Baltic Sea

Mesmerizing – May 18, 2023

  • Møn: Day 7
  • Distance: 12 miles / Total 92.5 miles / 20 km
  • Time: 7 hours
  • Ascent: ???’ Decent: ???’ Weather: 51
  • degrees 4 mph blue sky with white clouds

This charming pond has miniature floating homes. Anchored to the bottom, the homes slowly revolve with each gentle breeze. Mesmerizing.

Peaceful
One revolution. I could watch this for hours.
Just wait and a breeze will spin the home.

Nyord Island – 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

America doesn’t have villages with homes cluster around a church and outside the cluster of homes miles and miles of open fields. Nyord is such a idealic place. Locals tell me they receive 300,000 tourists annually. Yikes.

Nyord Church dates back to 1846.
Nyord Church. Notice the ship hung from the ceiling.
Ships hung from the ceilings signify the role of the church as refuge from life storms.
Nyord Church windows.

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.