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- August 007 Klubstof<br />
Lion<br />
Tilbage fra Hong Kong<br />
Af Kim Larsen, LC Hellerup<br />
samt Helena og Vincent,<br />
Hong Kong<br />
Det hele startede i marts måned,<br />
hvor jeg modtog en mail<br />
fra Hong Kong. Der stod:<br />
”I'm Helena of Hong Kong.<br />
I have participated in the<br />
Youth Exchange to Denmark<br />
in 2004. I participated in the<br />
camp in Frederikssund. If<br />
you could remember, I'm one<br />
of the two Chinese girls who<br />
found it difficult to bike then!”<br />
Jeg var YECC’er i det år i distriktet<br />
og havde selvfølgelig<br />
ikke glemt de to piger fra<br />
Hong Kong, og da Helena<br />
samtidig fortalte om de planer,<br />
som hun og hendes ven<br />
havde for sommeren, kunne<br />
jeg ikke lade være med at tage<br />
udfordringen op. De ville på<br />
cykel-/campingtur i <strong>Danmark</strong><br />
og ville køre Jylland på langs.<br />
Efter flere afslag på sponsorering<br />
af de to cykler, lykkedes det<br />
at låne to, som endte med at blive<br />
godt brugt på en over 500 km<br />
lang cykeltur med oppakning.<br />
Nedenfor er den beretning, jeg<br />
har fået af Helena og Vincent,<br />
lige før de fortsatte til Frankrig<br />
for i tre uger at arbejde<br />
på en gård, før de vender næsen<br />
hjem af til universitetet.<br />
Helena and<br />
Vincent’s story<br />
It was in 2004 that I went for<br />
a youth exchange program<br />
in Denmark. <strong>We</strong>ll…the reason<br />
for choosing Denmark<br />
was only a wild pick from<br />
hundreds of places’ names.<br />
It is now in 2007 that I come<br />
back with a rather frantic idea<br />
– to have a cycling trip across<br />
Jutland from South to North.<br />
Back in 2004…<br />
I was never a good biker and<br />
everybody knew this well in<br />
the camp! I had been falling off<br />
down the slope with my bike,<br />
just because I did not know<br />
how to use the footbrake (even<br />
though I was being taught for<br />
many times…) I was the one<br />
who did not know how to get on<br />
my own bike, and not to mention<br />
how I could stop it; And I<br />
was also the one who biked as<br />
clumsy as one could get, when<br />
all the others were passing<br />
swiftly through the roundabout.<br />
That was then, and nobody ever<br />
allowed me to get hold of my<br />
bike at night-time and on any<br />
rainy days throughout the camp!<br />
Now in 2007…<br />
I have always believed that<br />
Denmark is more or less a flat<br />
country, and that, most of all,<br />
Denmark is a safe and friendly<br />
place to wander around as a<br />
backpacker-beginner (though<br />
after the trip I have definitely<br />
changed my mind for that,<br />
Denmark is not a flat land at<br />
all!). That was then-- with these<br />
two pieces of impression; I<br />
embarked on a 3-week biking<br />
journey with my friend all the<br />
way through the Southern Jutland<br />
to Skagen in the Northern<br />
Jutland in the summer of 2007.<br />
Helena og Vincent klar til afgang.<br />
“<strong>We</strong>’ve been thinking<br />
about this, just<br />
take Cabin No.4…”<br />
Shortly after we had started our<br />
journey from Gråsten, the weather<br />
turned bad. It was all the<br />
way from Højer to Skæbæk that<br />
the sky was raining cats and<br />
dogs and the wind was blowing<br />
so fiercely that we were almost<br />
being stopped by it. In weather<br />
like this, we had no time to stop<br />
and no time to lose, but to get<br />
to a nearby campsite as quickly<br />
as possible with our non-stop<br />
“self-driven motor”. <strong>We</strong> were<br />
in drowning wetness, freezing<br />
cold and were starving severely<br />
throughout the way, desperately<br />
longing for hot dishes and<br />
a shelter. Arriving at the campsite<br />
in Skæbæk, the owners of<br />
the campsite just could not help<br />
laughing out at our situation and<br />
told us to use the washing and<br />
drying machine for free in order<br />
to “get alive”. However, the<br />
rain had never ceased to pour<br />
down, and we could never be<br />
able to pitch our tent. But then<br />
the most moving words came<br />
THE<br />
out from the owners telling us<br />
just to take one of the empty cabins.<br />
Throughout the journey,<br />
we always came across so many<br />
nice people who offered us help<br />
even without us asking for it.<br />
Though the chance of getting<br />
bad weather is more or less as<br />
high as the chance of meeting<br />
nice people, the friendliness and<br />
the kindness of people became<br />
one of the most unforgettable<br />
impressions, we had throughout<br />
the journey (apart from<br />
the not-so-nice weather…).<br />
Denmark is not a<br />
flat land at all!<br />
I am now totally convinced that<br />
Denmark is not a flat country,<br />
and I am sure that my leg muscles<br />
will also strongly agree to<br />
that. It was all the way from<br />
Skæbæk to Aalborg, lasting<br />
for half of our journey, that the<br />
“ups and downs” seems to be<br />
never ending. As an amateur<br />
like me, the wind blowing in<br />
opposite direction has already<br />
forbidden me to go forward in a<br />
straight line, and not to mention
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