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I couldn't resist this early spring sunshine we're getting over here. Temperaures up to 15°C and a light breeze from the West. Clear skies and open roads, I went to the local beach park and met a couple of other 'old' bikers. Lovely day out with Thumper... Here he is, by the sea...

He looks very good too! Nice to get some sunny weather.



It's very strange but that picture looks familiar. Did there used to be a long jetty that led to a network of piers there, before the island went in? I could be in the wrong part of the world of course!

Only my friend Moo says that I never forget a scene, and she is usually right.

Pretty much all you see on the horizon is artificial, built about 5 years ago. This is the Amager strand, on the east of the island of Amager. There was once a bathing house which was a huge wooden affair, like a floating swimming pool, a little further up the coast. Power station even further up the coast, north of where I was.


There is a map here.
I was on the shore looking across at the northern end of (the artificial) Amager Strandpark.

Yep, you were parked right at the end of Amanger Helgoland. It carried straight on, (on a jetty of course) then turned left a little and it was like some kind of harbour with jetties, then it went about 2004, and they started the Island.



Perfect, just remembered you could do a history thing on google earth!

Spot on! Well done, that man. The jetty and Helgoland are gone now. I was at the point where the jetty used to go out from.


Now the big question is, how did you know? Have you lived near this place?

A friend of mine had a job at some gas installation at the north end of the island, but he lived in the lower west section, somewhere near a beautiful old fort, I think it was called Kongelonds fort. We had a look around it once! Looking at the map, the road that looks right is rosenlundsvej.



He was there for 3-4 years, and I would visit for a couple of weeks in the summer. 2004-2006 sounds right, and it was so strange as so much changed. no island, then large area of added land with a big hole, then hole filled creating a new island.



He moved on to do something else after that, But I do remeber the place so well. Lots of old defensive places around the harbours and also that canal line at christiana, very Napoleonic looking.



Magic place, a small island, with a city (almost), rural wild and remote areas and an international airport! Something for everyone.

Again, all spot on. Kongelund (King's copse), by the way, is one of my favourite places on this island. Woods, beach and quiet roads.


Well done on spotting all that..