Though the weather was supposed to be rainy by Friday’s forecast, things changed quickly and in the morning it was obvious that there was even going to be more sun than clouds. Our initial idea was to play for the rain and look to do something indoors based such as the Army Museum but with the good fortune we decided instead for Frederiksborg Slot.
The drive was about half an hour or so and with the help of GPS was pretty simple to navigate. There were a few odd clouds at the outset of our getting there but they seemed to melt away as the day went on leaving only the high fluffy stuff. We started by walking the gardens and paths through some of the exterior buildings. This took the better part of the morning. I think we got there around 10am or so. The garden area took maybe two hours or so which meant we decided to get lunch before going inside the castle. There was a small lunch place, outdoors only when we got there, that is right on the entrance to the castle that we ate at called Spisestedet Leonora. We tried a more traditional Danish lunch which means they serve you a basket of bread and a collection of toppings to make open faced sandwiches out of. I believe this is called Snorrebrot. The collection of toppings included curried herring, roast beef, fried fish, Danish meatballs and smoked salmon amongst the additions like minced onion, pickled beets, capers and a couple relishes. The majority of it was cold though the fried fish was still warm. I had a microbrewery beer that was fairly good. The bottle was wine bottle sized and it tasted good throughout the whole meal. We finished up with a some reasonably good coffee.
After lunch we headed into the castle. It apparently was Danish wedding day and we saw signs of at least 3 weddings happening in the castle church during the course of our visit. It meant that the church was not open to the public during the early portion of our visit but we went through the whole building and then hit the gift shop. By the time we were done with the actual castle they had opened the church and we were able to get in and visit that part as well. I can say that it does take a little getting used to the idea of the Danish brick castle. This happens because they really didn’t have enough stone to build castles around here. It makes them look very different from the typical medieval castle idea that you would see in England or France but they are from at least the 1700s if not a bit earlier. That all said, it really is a very nice castle and has a lot more to offer than Kronborg because it is still basically intact and the Swedes don’t own everything that belonged within it. The views are very spectacular in many locations outside the building and some of the outbuildings were very interesting, especially the small wooden structure on an island that looks old and is very uneven. It is definitely a location that I would very much so advise to visit if you are ever in the region.
The weather held up beautifully all day. The sun stayed out but for some high puffy clouds. It definitely turned out a lot better than the forecast suggested. I was very happy for that. After the castle George wasn’t really feeling well so we headed back in to his apartment for at least a breather.
Since George still wasn’t feeling well we decided not to go back into town but rather to walk up the street to a Turkish pizza place where we picked up a pizza and we brought it back to his apartment and I ate it. Then we watched a Danish computer animated film called Mission to Saturn which was very funny. From there it was time to call it a night.
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