Blokhus Salt

Prior to leaving the UK we purchased the Danish PinTrip guide. PinTrip is a scheme which allows mobile home and campervan owners to park for the night in selected locations at little or no cost. Mostly the locations are based at small business, cafes galleries, breweries and tourist attractions. Although you pay nothing to park your van for the night, the expectation is that you visit (and spend a few Kronas) at whichever site you are staying. We chose to spend the night at Blokhus Salt which was handily located between our last stop and most northerly tip of Denmark (Skagen) where we were heading. The owners collect sea water from the nearby beach and then use solar power to dry the salt prior to adding flavourings for cooking salts or perfumes for bath salts. We were given a guided tour of their salt drying facility including their solar powered salt drying racks and adjacent shop stocking multiple varieties of their home produced salt. There was also a rather bizarre doll museum in their garage, in the midst of which resided a restored golden Cadillac. The whole place had a slightly surreal feel. Our van was parked on their driveway along with two identical VW campervans owned by a Danish couple and a German family. The whole place started to look a bit like a traveller encampment, particularly once we all started cooking up our respective dinners on their front drive. This was our first PinTrip experience. We left with slightly mixed feelings and slightly more solar dried salt bath salts than we actually needed.