Skagen

Skagen is the northernmost point of Denmark, a sandy peninsula ending in a sharp spit called **Grenen**. What makes it singular is that you can stand at that tip with **a foot in two different seas**: the North Sea to the west and the Baltic (Kattegat) to the east. The two currents meet there and you can watch **the lines of waves collide head-on** — a strange sight matched on no other coast. The sand here genuinely moves: the migrating dune **Råbjerg Mile** creeps about 15 metres a year, and in the eighteenth century it buried an entire church, leaving nothing above the sand but its tower. In the late nineteenth century the **Skagen light** — clear northern light reflected off two seas — drew a group of painters who became known as the **Skagen Painters**, and their houses and museums are still open. Note: about 180 km north of Aarhus, with a direct train.