Day 27, Aarhus, in the middle of our street......

So the plan today was to drive about two and a half hours and visit Aarhus, Denmark’s second biggest city after Copenhagen. Lyn had looked online for a place to stay free overnight, and we got there easily enough and found a spot in the car park, right opposite the ferry terminal.

We waited for the showers to dry off, and then the sun came out and it got quite warm. We walked the 15 minutes or so into Aarhus centre and had a mooch around. The centre was quite relaxed and pleasant. There were lots of shops, including H & M and Superdry. I wasn’t allowed to go in, as a result of expensive Danish prices!

Our main reason for visiting here was to take a look at the AroS Art Museum. This is one place where you get to walk in a rainbow. How could I resist?

Before we could walk the rainbow we had to sample the coffee shop/bar and have a drink as we were gasping! The coffee bar was typically trendy Scandi style, with prices to match. Lovely to look at, but the chairs were not really meant to sit in for long!

The rainbow panorama sits on top of the multi story museum and is visible from all over the city. It is a 150m long circular walkway 50m above the ground on the roof. It offers spectacular views all over Aarhus and the bay beyond in all the colours of the rainbow. It was so simple, but yet mesmerising. I couldn’t stop taking photos, and turned into a real selfie whore, imaging myself in an Andy Warhol collage!

We started at the eighth floor at the top of the museum then, to work our way down. The top floor was mainly modern art and didn’t interest us so much.

Another floor was based on “home” and what it means to different people. My favourite exhibit there was the exhibit based on homeless placards from around the world. They were usually on torn bits of cardboard, yet exhibited in fancy gold frames. I found them quite poignant.

The most famous exhibit in the museum is that of “Boy” by the Australian artist Ron Mueck. Boy stands 5 metres tall and weighs 500kg. He is incredibly detailed, and his size is reinforced by mirrors everywhere. His expression is hard to read. Is he scared? Upset? He was incredible!

There also happened to be an exhibit on “Art & Porn” on one of the levels. Denmark legalised porn in the 1960’s, and coincidentally kicked off the whole porn movement in Europe. This was a must see; although I took no photos. Sorry about that lol!Lyn, however, took one photo of a live porn wall, which was a montage of thousands of porn films. It was a little strange to watch! This exhibition is not an easy one to describe, for obvious reasons, but let’s just say it was extremely explicit and had lots of “wtf” moments! The art film on pornography from Balkan history had to be seen to be believed. Lyn and I will forever have an in joke about fishes inserted into orifices and coffee now. Don’t ask anymore!! Seriously, don’t ask!

We carried on throughout the museum, scarred forever, until we had seen it all. It was time to walk along the evening streets, along the river. There were loads of Danes out walking and chatting, and sitting outside in the riverside restaurants eating and drinking, so we thought “what the hell” and joined them in a lovely Italian.

Feeling full we walked back to the van to chill for the rest of the evening, and our final night in Denmark, before the next part of our holiday.