Day 20 Serendipitous sight seeing

Serendipiy (n) find something good without looking for it (according to a quote I pinned yesterday).
 
Today our sight-seeing didn’t go as planned. MGM went adventuring – following a road that 'looked interesting' and we found to lovely little hamlet of Nybourg where I followed my nose to the library...

 

It's the red building (right) on the water's edge (love the colours of Denmark's buildings).

 

MGM is fast to find his library-viewing position while I wander. 

 

 

Another universal....librarians. The world over they're either wonderfully helpful and engaging or off-puttingly officious with seemingly no middle ground. This library had one of each, book-end librarians if you please, but I've found that the officious always dominate. I got in trouble for taking this next photo - full over-the half glasses action. When I explained that I'm a library-tourist from Australia, that I come in peace & curiosity, that no clients were harmed in the taking of this photo etc. I received a push-the-glasses-up-the-nose dismissal. Please let me take a moment to apologise to any of you who have encountered this disdain in a library and to reassure you that the engaging librarians are hiding out in the shelves if you need them.

 

 

 

The library is on the way to Nybourg Slott (castle) 

 

 

 

 

Apparently, according to a local, Denmark is closed on Mondays. That’s probably an over statement with her meaning lost in translation, but she was right inasmuch as the things we’d planned to see in the local area were closed.

She suggested we drive to Svendbourg, look at a slot on the way that would be closed but that had lovely grounds that were open to the public even in winter. It turned out to be good advice and we decided that, given the choice between open with crowds or closed on our own, we'd take the latter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Svendbourg turned out to be a pretty little town, We had a lovely afternoon wandering these cobblestone streets in the snow (have I metioned that I love snow?)

 

 

 

 

 

 

MGM, the carnivore, was on the hunt so we found a steakhouse for dinner that happened to be right across from this little butcher's shop - red meat all around really.

 

 

While I was eating my chips & MGM was diving up to his elbows into a huge plate of meat, I spent an intersting hour watching how the locals shop. You see that little stool just inside the door? It's piled with meaty tid-bits that every shopper helped themselves to as they left the shop. Everything was done with bare hands, wouldn't be possible at home.

 

 

This was our original destinaation today, Egeskov Slot. It is huge. It's still a private home that is partly open for viewing if you're here in the season (which we're not) but I thought it might be lit at night. Nup. Big, closed go away gates instead. So we went home. By the time we were on the motorway conditions had deteriorated to blizzard. We were glad to get back to our cosy digs. It wasn't what we'd planned for today but we were happy to let sernedipity dicide for us today.