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A wide grass meadow sloping to a reed-fringed lake with a long low jetty, wooded shores and big cumulus above.

Vordingborg to Præstø (day 5)

Part of my southern route across Denmark by gravel bike. Its 158km and 1,098m of climbing over four days from Vordingborg to Copenhagen, with hotels or forest camping.

Ridden · Jamie Brammer

Kulsbjerg Øvelsesplads

The army training grounds at Kulsberg are a great place for some gravel biking, provided it is open, which from what I can see is actually most of the time, especially during summer.

Forests and lakes

We headed directly North from Kulsbjerg taking in a good section of forest trails before the last slighly dull 5km or so into Præstø.

Overnight: Præstø, Hotel Frederiksminde

Præstø has a small harbour area with a couple of good restaurants and a very quiet cobbled main street leading up to the church and a very good hotel, Hotel Frederiksminde.

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  • Two cyclists standing with their bikes on a pavement below a round red-brick medieval tower with a green copper spire on a grassy mound.
  • A young cyclist stopped on a grassy scrub path with a loaded orange bike laid down in front and two more riders further up the slope.
  • A wide grass meadow sloping to a reed-fringed lake with a long low jetty, wooded shores and big cumulus above.
  • A wide cobbled street corner of yellow, red and ochre rendered houses with red-tiled roofs and cars parked along it.