29th July Castles ………….Copenhagen…….maybe!!
After a confusing morning with meeting for breakfast with Suzie we eventually head off to visit castles! Concierge suggest we go by train as both of us hate tours and this sounds far more interesting.
Taxi to Tivoli Gardens, buy ticket and walk onto train, this is sounding and feeling pretty easy.
One hour later we are at Helsingor to see Kronborg Castle, this is where Shakespeare was meant to have written Hamlet and its performed here often by major performers.
Off the train a 15 min walk to castle and we are pretty happy.
We do the walk around its lovely but doesn’t have the furniture and effects of the other castles I have seen yesterday, but I say to Suzie we are now going to see the fabulous one Frederiksberg Slot, we just have to take another train and well be there!
I said it will be a quick run around the castle back on the train and back to the city for shopping!!
We ask at the station master when is the train coming and they said catch the little train, the yellow one platform 4.
OK platform 4 is linked with 3 so we wait for over 45 mins. We look up and with a minute to go Susie says platform 4 is up there at end of 3 and it has a yellow train there, shit we fly up the platform jump of the train and with a minute to spare we are off! It is 2.01p.m.
We think a little train I guess a little trip!
Umm after 45 mins we keep asking is this train going to Hallised, yes, how long, oh another half an hour!! Shit by the time we get there find the bloody castle we are stuffed plus get back to Helsingor change trains, wait for train then an hour on the train we are stuffed!!
Decision made when we get to Hallised we will stay on the train go back to Helsingor and get the train back to Copenhagen.
Well lucky we both had substantial breakfasts and a bottle of water, but no loo on board so now we cant drink the water!
The country side is green and boring so cant even say stunning scenery, at least we are laughing, no phone connection so cant even sms anyone to annoy them , onward we go.
We get to Hallised stay on the train and sigh at least we are homeward bound
Half another later we get to this town , Tisweldie , something like that and I happen to ask a lady is this train going to Helsingor, oh no she said the train is going back to Hallised, oh my God, we jump off the train, Susie is busting to go to the loo,
I race into the post office and say we want to get to Copenhagen, with this she replies you have to go back to Hallised and change trains!!!
Shit the train is on the platform Susie in the loo, I ask ,are we in Denmark or Sweden as we have been travelling for hours!
Roars of laughter we are still in Denmark, I scream out to Susie we have to get back on the train, she comes out of the look pants half down me hysterically laughing as the train pulls out of the station!!!!!!
Now we have to wait half hour for the train to come back, then we get on and go back to Hallised!!
Ask a young guy who says follow me and we get a red train back to Copenhagen, this takes us 50 mins which is full of stinky people!!! It is now 6.00p.m.
Fuck!!!! We arrive and decide to go straight to the restaurant that the concierge had booked for us, we needed a drink, no one knows us and who cares we are not dressed up!!!
The restaurant is called Koefoed along the lines of Noma (Michelin star top 5 rest in the world)which I had tried to book weeks ago but it was closed for summer!
Anyway this restaurant is along the same lines, all produce from island of Bornhom and presentation amazing!! Hopefully the photo will show smoke rising out of large jam jar which has quail eggs and stuffed herrings!!
Anyway we did have lots of laughs and realize how much money we had saved by not shopping!! A walk home in a fine filter of rain, temperature warm so it was pleasant except now I will have curls!!!
A funny day of castle hunting!!
Hey even when we got to Hallised we still didn’t even see the bloody castle in the background!!!
Susies first day in Denmark!!!!
