First week of holidays we spent at the Polish seaside, so the journey began from Pomerania
Journey to Denmark
We started our journey on Saturday morning. The first part was on Polish national road No. 6 up to the border crossing in Kołbaskowo. This is mostly a narrow road, one lane in each direction.
Before leaving the country we stopped for breakfast at McDonald’s in Goleniów, then quickly crossed the border. The rest of the way, as planned, was highway No. 20 in Germany to Lübeck, and then 7 to Flensburg.
There were no surprises until we arrived to Schleswig. We hit a traffic jam on the highway. We noticed that there was a big music festival nearby and the highway capacity seemed to be too limited. According to the radio it was over 30km long which meant several extra hours spent in the traffic jam. After a quick analysis of the situation we decided to detour using local roads to avoid waiting.
That’s how the detour extended our trip from the originally planned nine hours to over 11. We drove through Kiel and Eckernförde. Along the way we came across a historic drawbridge Lindaunisbrücke.
From Flensburg we drove through the border crossing into Denmark, Kupfermühle Kruså and continue on highway E45 to Kolding.
We planned to stay overnight at a campsite located near Billund, in Randbøl. From Kolding we traveled the shortest route on local roads to destination.
We arrived after almost 14 hours spent on the road. How we survived the trip? Very good. This boded well for the next days of our holiday road trip.
Practical information
The speed limit
Poland
- urban: 50 km/h
- rural: 90 km/h
- speedways 100-120 km / h (depending on the number of lanes)
- highway 140 km / h
Germany
- urban: 50 km/h
- rural: 100 km/h
- highway: no limits (with recommendation of 130 km / h)
Denmark
- urban: 50 km/h
- rural: 80 km/h
- highway: 110-130 km/h