On Thursday we took advantage of the record setting fall weather and took our bikes out to the farthest stop on the S-tog, the commuter train.  Bikes ride free and travel nicely in their train bike racks.  It was a good 5 hour bike ride along the coast south of Copenhagen, from a town called Køge, through small villages with half-timbered, thatched roof houses, the oldest of which was from 1611 and is now a museum but the others were just somebody's house.   I neglected to stop and take a picture.  We came upon a castle, the earliest part which was built in 1396.  The gardens were lovely, with giant oak trees many hundreds of years old.   Biking a little further, we came upon a medieval church,  started in 1200.  The paintings on the ceilings were common in the 1300's.  Each church has a model ship hanging in it, to protect and remember those at sea.  We took our lunch in a small town square, eating our usual cheese sandwiches and having a well-earned beer.  We headed west and found another regional bike trail, one of the hundreds of well-marked national and regional routes.  Rode past farms with the familiar fall smell of spread manure- Meredith will remember that well from her time out in the countryside at højskole.  Saw a mountain of harvested sugar beets and savored the sunshine and warmth.  The weather continures so I am going to head off on my bike for a trip around town.  Tonight,  Nhat is making pizza for our Danish friends.  The pizza tradition continues.