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[Exile]

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...

[Scalyback]

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.

[Exile]

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.

[Scalyback]

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!

[Exile]

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?

[Scalyback]

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.

[Exile]

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..