Filed underGendarmstien (Gendarme Path)

In 2020, as Corona hit, I started to walk the Danish Pilgrimage that took me along the Gendarme Path, 84 km of hiking through some of the most beautiful nature in Denmark.

After the reunion in 1920 the border and the shipping routes were controlled by the border gendarme. Patrolling was done by foot along the coast, and each gendarme had a particular area under his jurisdiction.

I started in Fynshav and walked to the German border close to Padborg, mostly following the coastline and walking through a very diverse landscape with forests, bogs and meadows in the historical landscape.

Day 20: Sønderborg to Kruså

Today was the last day I would walk in 2020, and the second day along Gendarmstien. I had agreed to meet my wife, who was driving from Copenhagen, in Kruså at 16:00. 36km to the German border at Wassersleben and a couple more to Kruså. I checked out of the hotel and walked over the…

Day 19: Fynshav to Sønderborg

I started the day on a bus back to Fynshav, where I arrived late last night on the ferry from Bøjden. I’d taken the bus from Fynshav to Sønderborg last night, and now I returned to start my walk back to Sønderborg. I walked a total of 25km, on roads from Fynshav to Høruphav, and…