Humid - HOT - Hong Kong

After a typhoon and some days of rain it has really again become HOT in Hong Kong. Yesterday the quicksilver stopped at 33 degrees C with a humidity at about 80 percent. Even in the early morning it is about 26 and then the morning run can be some challenge to overcome and the humidity doesn't allow the sweat to evaporate from skin and clothes and at the end of a one hour run you are as wet as if you've jumped into the pool. Not only by running you are sweating in this heat, just leaving the house to go to the bus can make you sweat and after some time outside, you feel as wet as when you are out in the rain. This is no complaint, in fact I don't mind warm sunny days but i do prefer less humidity than here. And this leads me back to some last thoughts about our holiday in Europe, so just here on the very last before the duties starts again a little look back at the nice warm sunny days in Denmark, where we -without the humidity- could spend nearly all day outside.Breakfast in the garden in Horsens.
Since we came to Hong Kong none of us have being riding a bike. Not because we don't want to; no because we couldn't bring our bikes from Dresden. The guys who packed our container said that there would be no room for them and so both of us sold our bikes. We also were told that it can be extreme dangerous riding a bike here in this mega city, and some places I agree on that, but here where we live in the country park, we could ride mountain bikes. My first bike experience in one year.
But never the less; in Denmark we used almost every opportunity to ride bikes.It started in Skagen, where we hired some bikes for 24 hours and then started our own traktour: "The Zufriedenfart 2008".
And so we became mobile in the north of Jutland and from then we came nearly everywhere around in Skagen on nearly no time, and what before on foot had been too far or too slow was suddenly just a matter of taking a decision. Catriona and Henrik on the first leg of the Zufriendenfahrt.
And one of them was to go to the sanded church -see previous post- one night to see world famous ballet from the London Ballet?The ballet dancers perform in front of the sanded church.
As Denmark itself is quit flat, then Skagen and all the northern part of Jutland is extreme flat, so on a bike you can go anywhere. And across the country they have built cycle paths, so it's possible to drive around without riding on the roads between cars. Our big trip led us from Skagen through the landscape of heather and sand dunes to the only left moving sand dune in Denmark; Råbjerg Mile.My brother Henrik in the dessert of this huge moving dune.
From Råbjerg Mile we continued to the west coast of Jutland and the "West Sea" which by other nations -Germany and England ao- call the North Sea. If you study a map you will see that Skagen in fact is on the same altitude like Aberdeen in Scotland, so Catriona tried her best to see if she could see her sisters house over there.Catriona show us the way to Aberdeen.
At the end of the day we had made about 50 kilometers and when we gave back the bikes that evening and went back to our hotel there was certainly some part's on our body that were extremely sore.
To be continued...