German and Dane 1st time visit

Both do your DNA before you go! It's lots of fun to visit the home towns of your ancestors...who knows, you might find some live cousins to befriend. We like road trips ourselves. Study up on German driving habits and signals like that they want to pass you on the autobahn, etc. I'm 45% Germanic according to my DNA report. My German ancestors were easy to put on my family tree because it seems that they didn't move for 300 years. You can visit Churches and Graveyards and learn a lot of History of your families. Bon Voyage

My Wife and I were married in a town near Copenhagen, Denmark and loved that country. However, my favorite part of Germany is Bavaria, which quite a distance from Copenhagen.

Unless you visit another part of Germany, like Berlin, Munich, Fussen, Garmisch, Berchtesgaden (Salzburg, Austria) are the places to see, as well as going up the Romantic Road that passes through Oberamergau, Augsburg, Dinkelsbuhel, Rothenburg on the Tauber to Wurzburg. You can take a night train from Copenhagen to Munich, we did that 30 years ago. You could check out cheap flights.

If you don't go to Bavaria, check out the Rhineland, Heidelberg, down the Rhine and end in Cologne.

If you rent a car, you must take care of not staying in the left lane when someone overtakes you. They have the right of way. People sometimes drive over 100MPH to 150MPH. I had motorcycles pass me on the autobahn that must have been going 120MPH. Be careful.

A very beautiful area with so much to experience. I suggest to explore the area on your own in your own pace. If you like just book local tours, e.g. walking tour in Lübeck. But basically do some own homework on the websites of tourist offices which are in most cases very good.

You can do a wonderful round trip by rental car, e.g.

• Hamburg 2-3 days (Speicherstadt, harbor tour, Miniatur Wunderland, emigration museum, ...)
• Get rental car
• Lübeck 1 day (old town, Holstentor and Hanse-Museum)
• 1-2 days drive and ferry Puttgarden - Rodbyhavn to Copenhagen (stops in between such as Heiligenhafen, Burg auf Fehmarn, Nykøbing on Falster, chalk cliffs at Møn, Gavnø Castle)
• Copenhagen 3 days
• Helsingør (castle) & Helsingborg in Sweden (15 min ferry) 1-2 days
• Drive and ferry Sjællands Odde to Aarhus with stops at Frederiksborg Castle, Roskilde Viking Museum, red church close to Sjællands Odde, museum ship Fregatten Jylland in Ebeltoft
• Aarhus 1 day
• Day trip to dune beaches of Løkken, port of Hirtshals and Skagen (put 1 foot in Baltic and 1 foot in North Sea even if it is cold) --> Overnight Aalborg
• opt. Odense 1 day
• Drive 1 day with stops at Ribe, Rømø beach, Flensburg (visit brewery), Schleswig (visit Viking village Haithabu), overnight at Töpferhaus in Bistensee (ask for the sauna)
• Visit Rendsburg and Kiel, maybe visit U-996 in Laboe by fjord ferry
• Find your way back to Hamburg airport, drop rental car and fly home

Rental cars are cheaper from / to Hamburg than from Danish cities. They are also cheaper if you rent not at an airport or at a train station, e.g. Sixt Spaldingstrasse. Sixt, Avis and Europcar are most reliable.

Have a good journey.

Thank you so much for the information!!

If you decide not to drive, the German rail system is amazing!