I spent about six hours on the very small island of Bjørnø this Sunday. My mother went along, so I didn't really shoot that much. We managed to walk around the coastline twice and had lunch at the beach where all the boat footage is shot.

Bjørnø is only about 1.5 square kilometers or 0.58 square miles big. There are 28 inhabitants in 13 houses and another 7 vacation homes. The island has a small kiosk that sells snacks and ice cream, so grocery shopping is done in the town of Fåborg 17 minutes away by ferry (owned and operated by the islanders). The ferry holds 22 people and some bicycles - there are no real roads on Bjørnø. The island is quite hilly - the highest elevation is 24 meters or 79 feet. The hill is called Højbjerg which translates to Tall Mountain :) Many Danish hills are called mountains.

Bjørnø is part of the South Funen Archipelago. An area with many smaller islands which attracts sailors from both Denmark and Germany but also Holland, Sweden and Norway. The ferry in the intro shot is a car ferry to the island of Ærø.

Funen or Fyn in Danish is the island where I live. My home town of Odense is 30 minutes away from Fåborg by car.

I brought my Lenovo netbook along and found that the mobile broadband signal was better here than in downtown Odense. The mobile broadband that I have can manage up to about 7.2 Mbit but mostly never goes any faster than 1.5 Mbit. Nothing beats sitting on top of a hill on tiny Bjørnø and surfing the internet at the same time :) (less info)