OK, that's enough snow ... really, that's enough ...

Well, the promised snow arrived in Aarhus. It was a bit wet yesterday morning so we went out and took a look at a small Viking museum in the basement of a bank (the artefacts and remains of a village and road were excavated while the building was under construction), and checked out the cathedral. The weather got worse and we shelved our plans to go to the old town, and spent the afternoon around the hotel, frolicking in the snow and racing inside to get warm. By evening, it was snowing quite hard. Still, we managed to get a taxi without any problems to take us to our friends' place about 7km from the centre of town. The taxi driver joked that the weather was forecast to get worse, but we still didn't get it.



However, after a good dinner and lots of catching up, we were ready to hit the hay back at the hotel. So we tried to call a taxi. There were none. The weather had turned really bad and it wasn't safe for our friends to drive us back in the dark. So we stayed the night there, hoping for a break in the morning, but starting to worry about making connections with trains etc today. When our friend tried to open the front door this morning, knee high snow was backed up against it - and he had shovelled the path last night before going to bed. Uh oh.

We couldn't even get through by phone to taxi, bus or train companies or connect with any websites. Our friends gave us a good breakfast and then we decided to take a walk down the hill to see if there were any buses running. A few intrepid people were out, walking and in cars, and lots of people were out shovelling snow off driveways and footpaths. Snowploughs were also on the road, - those things go fast and you just have to get out of the way!



There was a lot of discussion among pedestrians as to whether there would be any buses, and a man gave us directions to walk back to Aarhus (2 hours estimated). We trundled up the road, past another bus stop, and discussed hitching a ride when suddenly a shout from Al, walking behind. He'd flagged down a car ... NO... A TAXI!!!

We couldn't believe our luck. We jumped in that taxi so fast, and were in Aarhus within about 15 minutes, just in time to catch the last of the buffet breakfast at the hotel! (After all that snow-walking, we were ready for a second breakfast).

Now we are sitting tight for a couple of hours until checkout time. Rumour has it that most trains are running late, but they are running. Our train for Hamburg leaves just after 2pm, and we have a 3 hour wait in Hamburg for our connection, so hopefully we will be lucky again.

I notice work hasn't stopped on the building site over the road, although the builders succumbed to temptation yesterday and had a snowball throwing competition.