Day 4 Pictures and George's Pictures.

The link to the day 4 pictures is here and I've also cleaned up the earlier albums. I have to rotate some still but I'll get those done as soon as I can.

The link to George's images is here. I am sure he was good enough to rotate all his pictures already.

Denmark Day 5

I am in the airport right now. They haven't announced my gate yet so I am wasting a bit of time. The airport very strangely does not have any sort of concentrated "I visited Denmark" type gift shops which sorta surprised me. I thought maybe I could get a last minute thing or two, but apparently in their arrogance they think people visiting Denmark will never leave so they don't need to buy souvenirs in an airport. In any event I figured I'd mention I am going to clean up the pictures and set up all the links all over again as soon as I can after I get home. There is one more day of pictures to be posted.

This morning I did hit the touristy gift shops in Copenhagen and we even managed to get a cup of coffee when Copenhagen finally opened. It is apparent that people do not rise before, say, 9am around here. The cab ride to the airport was uneventful and CPH security didn't make me take off my shoes, which is nice. Anyway the internet connection I paid for is going to run out soon so I am posting this now.

Denmark Day 4

Small misadventure with the train system, but we managed to get out to Roskilde at about the time they opened up what was going to open on a White Monday holiday. As the Danes are a very religious people they take off every semblance of a holy day they can and even make up a few to have some more days off. The good news is that the places we wanted to go in Roskilde were open but just about everything else was closed due to the holiday. Try to think about a tourist town with all the shops closed on a holiday in the US...

In any event, we visited the viking ship museum and went out on a viking boat recreation. Due to the activity involved in rowing the boat and getting the sails up and in George's case steering we did not get any pictures from the boat. It was a lot of fun and I would do it again in a heartbeat. After the boat we went to Roskilde Cathedral then got lunch and eventually returned to Copenhagen. After a short rest back at the house we went out and had dinner and a couple beers before returning for the night.

Pictures

Since I don't have a ton of time.  The link for Day 1 is here. The link for Day 2 is here.  The link for Day 3 is here.

Images note

Sorry, still uploading pics. I messed up Day 2 and they will have to be resent at some point but I will have links to what I have up currently later on today.

Denmark Day 3

We got up early and took the local to a longer train to Helsingor (which appears to be pronounced Elsinor). We got there sort of early and it was a Sunday after all and at 9am nothing appeared to be open. We took a walk all the way around Kronborg castle which is most famously known for being the setting of Hamlet, which is pretty cool. It burned down several times and the current representation is only a couple centuries old and most of the treasures that used to reside in it are currently in Swedish possession due to the numerous wars between the two nations (most of which were won by the Swedes apparently). In any event we waited until the castle was finally open and then did the full tour setup. We took 2 guided tours, one through the old sections and one through the newer sections. The first one was a good tour but our guide for the second was really good and had several jokes regarding the above subject that really made us laugh. I don't think she was Danish. In any event we probably spent about 4 hours in the castle and then we dragged ourselves into the Helsingor downtown area. There appeared to be a shopping district that was closed for Sunday but we did find a nice place to grab some beer and a snack and then we headed back home.

After that we got cleaned up and headed back into town where we went to an Italian restaurant where I had penne arrabiata and eventually tiramisu. It was all very good. I asked them to spice up the penne and they seemed to because I got some heat out of it. After that we headed in because it was already 11pm.

Denmark Day 2

We started off early for Danes, which if I mentioned the time the people that went to Japan with me would recognize as very late. We basically ran around Copenhagen and saw a few sites. I used my 1 day CPH Card and we got into town around 8ish. We got a cup of coffee and I had a Danish that was actually listed as a Danish at the shop. From there we walked around a bit. Not in the correct order probably we went to the National Museum. We saw the Parliament building and the ruins of the previous castles underneath. We took a canal tour. Somewhere we had lunch at a place named the Peder Oxe. They served me a hamburger that looked like I cooked it it was so rare. I loved it. After the canal tour I believe we went to the Round Tower and got to the top of that. Then we came back home and got cleaned up and then headed out to dinner with George's coworker Patrick who is from Jersey (and it showed). We had very good chinese food at a place named Hings Cuisine. I got spicy beef with peppers and it was actually spicy, which is surprising for Denmark. From there we walked back into town and went through Tivoli for the rest of the night until a fairly late return after midnight.

Denmark Day 1

The day actually started the night before in Boston. My flight took off at 9:30pm on time. We had a 4 hour and 40 minute flight that was uneventful until I landed in Iceland. The landing was interesting because we found the runway then couldn't decide which direction it faced for a couple moments. Iceland was pouring rain and dismal. The couple I was sitting next to was spending 6 days there. I wished them luck, but they said the forecast didn't look great.

The airport was odd. There are no places to sit and they don't board planes by area. People just lined up and pushed onto the plane when they started to board. The second flight was 2 hours and 45 minutes. It left a teeny bit late. It also was uneventful until the landing where the pilot figured that we should take the last 100 feet down in as short a time as possible.

George met me at the airport and we took a cab into his place. His place is sorta small but there's enough room for one person easily and a second can survive for short burts there as well. After getting cleaned up we went out to downtown Copenhagen and walked around. He showed me a lot of the various sights that are quick to see and I picked up a CPH card to use on Saturday. We went to a restaurant called Reef N Beef which is an Australian styled chain and I had some VB and bacon wrapped kangaroo filets. The food was excellent.

I'll post my first set of pictures tonight as we are about to head out.