European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Jutland camper a Paradise in Denmark a amps Susan Harriss amps photos by Dave Didi Oby Norm Zeigler travel outdoor writer sunlight was streaming through the Trees and Down onto the tent. A few minutes before it had been very still outside but now Bird sounds were beginning to fill up the silence blackbirds crows magpies. Down toward the River a pheasant was crowing with rhythmic regularity every Hal minute or so. We unzipped the storm Flap and crawled out onto the grass still wet with Dew. The Sun was not yet High enough to take off the chill but it was a Crisp Clear Spring morning. It was the second Day of a four Day camping trip in Central Jutland the Peninsula in Western Denmark. We had made the 10-hour nearly 500-mile drive up from Central West Germany two Days before arriving on Jutland in the Early evening in a cold rainstorm. But by the time we set up our tent at Skjerne camping just South of Skjerne a Brilliant Orange Sun was sinking into the Marsh. We had picked Jutland because of its natural Beauty and the variety and number of campsites. If you look at a map showing campgrounds in Denmark you see Little Tepee symbols dotting nearly All of Jutland from the North sea coast in the West to the Shore of the Baltic in the East and Skagerak in the North. Central Jutland has a variety of unspoiled landscapes. In the West dunes and windswept moors dominate the North sea beaches and Barrier islands. The few isolated Trees Are stunted and wind gnarled. A Little to the East the Countryside is Flat and Damp peat and Marshland broken up by occasional Small patches of Forest. Cattle Graze in Stream Side pastures and Fields of Grain Ripple in the Breeze. Near the Middle of the Peninsula the land rises to the Hills and Hardwood continued on Page 12 top a Fisherman s boat near the Shore at Ringkob ing in West Central Jutland where campgrounds Are common. Above morning Coffee brews at a quiet danish campsite. Blu june 21, 1990 stripes Magazine
