My 4th post of the week. For those keeping track, have no fear, I am not finished with the giants/trolls yet!! Because I still have to write about the 5 days I spent volunteering to help build a new one!!!
But before doing that, I wanted to find the 7th giant: Thomas on the Mountain.
So, with a little arm twisting (from me), the youngest agreed to go, so we set out to find Thomas Friday, July 3rd.
At this point the youngest is totally over bike rides longer than 4 or 5 miles and all these Giants are 10 or 12 miles away. But we do take our bikes with us – it is super easy to transport them on the S-tog trains and then bike 5 – 7 minutes to the Giant.
So our trip out there – bike 2 min to the closest train station, take the green line direction Hoje Taastrup. Settle in for a 35 min ride…
The youngest is a champion napper and takes at least one nap a day. Our trip to find Thomas on the Mountain cut into her nap time, so she used the time on the train wisely…I love love love the safe and convenient bike paths of this country.All the green hedges. Now the path takes us through some woods. Then through a field. See that slight hill with woods up ahead? That’s Thomas’s Mountain!You can’t really tell here, but that’s a pretty steep uphill path. And we’re so accustomed to zero hills in Denmark she didn’t downshift or get up enough speed to make it up the hill. So she stopped…and made her way back down to park her bike. Very annoyed with the hill. For her, hills/mountains are the *only* place to take a walk/hike. But she emphatically detests taking on any hills by bike and if she must bike up a hill, plenty of grumbles and scowls and glares ensue.Field below Thomas on the MountainShe found him quickly and then settled in to read. And should you think your eyes are deceiving you, they are not. His right leg is very very very long.Obligatory selfie with ThomasThomas’s very very long leg.Thomas’s view from his perch and my adorable 12yo.The youngest had very short hair for a year or two. She has recently decided she wants to grow all her hair out. Bangs and everything… Thomas’s mountain is in a nice big park and there are trails leading further up into the woods. We decided to explore for a few minutes. In [at least] one article I read about Thomas Dambo, he explains that one purpose for his trolls/giants/sculptures to do is give people an opportunity to explore. This has certainly been the case for us. And this mountain was no exception!Deep in the woods…View from the very top. Although Thomas’s mountain isn’t quite Mt. Ulriken, it was nice to walk around on trails in some hills for a little while. One last picture of Thomas before we headed back to the train station.
And this concludes the posts about our search for the Forgotten Giants!
