Biking on Heavenly Bornholm

I am completely exhausted after a weekend of non-stop bike riding and very little sleep!  However, the weekend trip to the island of Bornholm, Denmark was amazing: it is famous for its round churches, salted herring, finest sand in the world, sea glass and all-around beautiful scenery.  I think there was about 100 of us from DIS that boarded the bus at 10:30 on Friday night and drove over to this huge overnight ferry that took us to Bornholm.  The boat ride was fun because we got to hang out with friends, play cards and drink wine, but none of us got very much sleep and before we knew it we were there (at 6:00 am...ugh).

I think we all woke up once we got to our hostel and realized how pretty everything was.  Some friends and I took off around 8:30 am and biked to seethe oldest round church on the island as well as the amazing Hemmerhjus castle ruins.  I have to say that these were the most amazing castle ruins I have ever seen, even bypassing those in Scotland and Ireland.  It's a good thing those ruins were so breathtaking and well worth it, though, since the bike ride was ridiculously hard.  I was so tired that after we went out for some dessert at a pancake house, I passed out at 9:30!

The next day we visited the sea glass museum, which was fairly small but had beautiful wine glasses, olive oil holders, vases, jewelry and anything else you could imagine.  All 4 of us bought these beautiful glass eggs with cool swirly designs inside.  After that, we explored around the coast for a while before deciding to bike through the forest to the largest round church on the island and a lookout tower.  The ride was a little bit easier than the first day but it was freezing and started to rain on the way back, which made it hard to ride.  I was still pretty wet when we boarded the ferry but I snuggled up on the floor

 and fell fast asleep for the whole ride home.  Overall, the trip was extremely tiring but well worth it to see the peaceful, cozy little island.