Category Archives: Hundred Day Diary

Day 70 of 100, Nordjylland, Danmark Remember what I was saying about sunshine yesterday? I woke to a raging hail storm today. Rice sized bits of ice skewing madly over the fields to crash into windows, where they slither, crushed, to join their fellows in the strata over the sill.More

Day 69 of 100, northern Jutland, Denmark We’ve had several days of sunshine (madness!!!) and bone chilling gale out here in the northerly reaches of the Jutland peninsula. One could be forgiven for thinking that it’s actually spring. This morning though, rain gathered and broke just past dawn. It was a momentary spell, before the…More

Day 67 of 100, northern Jutland, Denmark There are many creatures around here to greet when you walk around on dry days. There is the odd human, of course, who sometimes comes out to chat, but mostly waves from the confines of a tractor, in these days of ploughing and planting. There are the dogs,…More

Day 66 of 100, northern Jutland, Denmark I wrote about sunshine the other day, which made the sun disappear faster than you could say “you did?” Well, it happened again, right around dinner time. Five minutes after rain was punishing the windows with a million fine whiplashes, it stopped, and the weather evaporated. We bundled…More

Day 65 of 100, northern Jutland, Denmark Sometimes I forget I’m supposed to be making the most out of living. I’ve been stuck in a holding pattern for months now, moving countries (Singapore → Denmark ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ Germany → ?) every week due to circumstances neither of us anticipated, while we were planning…More

Day 64 of 100, northern Jutland, Denmark Yesterday it was sunny. For more than 5 minutes. I’ve learned in this place, and this season, that one does outside things when presented with this rarity. Rain is never far. So we walked into town. It took about an hour, past the many old farmsteads that line…More

Day 63 of 100, northern Jutland, Denmark I can’t seem to tire of this springtime color, no matter how much I look at it. A multitude of deer, racing cloud shadows in the long green. I posted the picture at the end of this post, some days ago on Facebook, and a friend commented that…More

Day 62 of 100, northern Jutland, Denmark All day, water, then splat. Clack. Crack. Thwack. Spack. Fwack. Flak. Hot soup? No, just hail.More

Day 61 of 100, northern Jutland, Denmark …is yellow and green, crumbed fish and cucumbers, daffodils and dewdrops. We make a family photo at the end, to make up for the one I forgot last year. Later, slippery wet dirt on the walking trail, we escape indoors ahead of the weather.More

My last interview for #HerSideOfTheRoad project has just been published: Going Underground With Birka Wiedmaier.More

Day 59 of 100, northern Jutland, Denmark I see the country around me through the filter of Flemming’s memory. I’d heard so much about this land, and how it backdrops the Jensen family history, that even before I came here for the first time, I could already smell the wet, black dirt after a drizzle,…More

Day 58 of 100, northern Jutland, Denmark Today I’ve been mostly occupied by green. Microsoft wallpaper green. The kind of green that looks like someone hit that saturation slider, hard. Like when the sun, fighting its way out of obscurity, is all “yeah baby!” in its 5 seconds of triumph. You know, neon, almost. Mad…More

Day 57 of 100, Germany to Denmark Back on the train. I enjoy this particular rail journey more than I can say, even having done it about 6 times in as many weeks. We’ve been doing them first class, because on the route we travel, it doesn’t cost that much more than 2nd, and is…More

Day 56 of 100, Hannover, Germany Holding patterns. They start the day before the journey, ghosting around picking things up, ticking them off a list, putting them into a bag, and repacking. And repacking. The agitation of Not All Here. I hate my big bag everytime. In the four years I’ve been moving around, it’s…More