This post will be epic (part 3)

So we had breakfast again around 8:30, the same type of food. Then we were split into two groups for walking tours of Odense. We went into the old part of town, a lot of the buildings date to the 1800s I think, because they were at one point burned to the ground during the some war or other. We saw Hans Christian Andersen’s (recently graffitied) home from the outside, then went into the museum. They have a large collection of his books, manuscripts, crafts, and personal effects.

The whole town is basically a monument to Andersen. Just about every building or street corner has some tie to him or his family. “This river is where Andersen’s mother washed clothes for a living.” “Andersen was confirmed here, and he tucked his pants into his new boots to show them off.” “This is the one room home where he spent his childhood, and the gooseberry bush he sat by writing stories.” “This is statue of him” Etc, etc. In the church where he was confirmed, they also have the bones of a Viking king and his brother, they were at least 800 year old bones. Pretty astonishing.

Our final stop on the tour was Brandts, a media museum. They had a lot of cool printing press type devices, but everyone was crashing at this point. We went for our last group meal and had gigantic sandwiches, and when one of our group leaders asked if we would like to start the trip back to Copenhagen early, a great cheer went up!

I finally made it all the way back home by about 5 or so on Saturday. Spent a relatively relaxing night, wished my host family a pleasant trip as they would be leaving before I woke up on Sunday, and got some glorious sleep.