Day 8: Mon 17 Jul: Aarhus to Randers
Cycle: 51 km - Total so far: 250 km Start time: 8:45am Stop time: 11:35am Weather: sunny and clear to start and then cloudy with a cool wind, 12 to 18deg A rather short ride today due to the lack of hotel options on or near the route north. Brilliant sunshine greeted us but that soon turned cloudy and cool with a very lazy westerly wind. Lucky we were heading north so not too bad. The ride was mainly through farming country with amazingly healthy crops of maize, wheat, barley, broad beans, peas, canola and oats. Checkin turned into a task as the auto-receptionist (machine) would not accept the booking number 😡 Just can't reason with a computer. Ken ended up ringing a real person and we sorted it out. After dumping our gear in the rooms we walked across the road to The Sunset Restaurant (Danish Maccas/Subway) for lunch. Most of us were feeling ripped off about the short cycle day so after settling in we went for a local spin on the bikes. We discovered a lovely li...