I rarely leave the vicinity of my small village in the summer, so I don’t see many strangers or meet new people during that time, but that all changed during a walk with my wife this evening.
As we descended the main road, we encountered two horses grazing in a field near a blue horse-drawn carriage marked with small Danish flags.
“Do you think someone traveled from Denmark in that carriage?” my wife wondered.
A moment later, a man who looked to be in his late fifties or early sixties came around the side of the carriage. I asked him if he spoke English, and after he replied in the affirmative, we struck up a short conversation.
He confirmed that he was indeed a Dane, introduced himself as Niels, and informed me that he was traveling across Europe in the blue carriage powered by nothing more than his two horses. He then told me he had been on the road for over eight months. I asked him if he had a particular destination in mind. He smiled and said he would go wherever the road took him.
Quite an interesting fellow!
The video below (in Polish and Danish, not English, sorry, but you can use the subtitle translation option) provides some insight into the individual we met.
As we descended the main road, we encountered two horses grazing in a field near a blue horse-drawn carriage marked with small Danish flags.
“Do you think someone traveled from Denmark in that carriage?” my wife wondered.
A moment later, a man who looked to be in his late fifties or early sixties came around the side of the carriage. I asked him if he spoke English, and after he replied in the affirmative, we struck up a short conversation.
He confirmed that he was indeed a Dane, introduced himself as Niels, and informed me that he was traveling across Europe in the blue carriage powered by nothing more than his two horses. He then told me he had been on the road for over eight months. I asked him if he had a particular destination in mind. He smiled and said he would go wherever the road took him.
Quite an interesting fellow!
The video below (in Polish and Danish, not English, sorry, but you can use the subtitle translation option) provides some insight into the individual we met.
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