The Purple Penguin

So today was out of Copenhagen – up early, well earlyish. Last night was noisy so when the alarm went off we decided to stay in bed for a bit. Still got the train we wanted to catch, the 8.55 to Helsingør (yay – copy paste works for the extra Danish letters!) Got to Helsingør about 9.45 and headed for the  Øresundsakvariet (aquarium with animals from the  Øresund area; which is much like the marine animals you’ll find around the UK! It is very small, but has lots in it. Unfortunately it also had a lot of very small children so we didn’t last long in there! (Kathleen’s found how to do o with lines in them in the blog).

Then off to Kronborg – the castle that supposedly Shakespeare used for the setting for Hamlet! Very nice place with lots to see. We had another wonderful day, lots of sunshine and hot, so we ended up not walking around the ramparts. We did however see everything inside! Started with the chapel and the royal apartments (more large rooms with paintings and tapestries and seats you can’t sit on) then the Maritime Museum which was quite intersting very UK in feel and evolution. We also headed up the tower, then down to the casements (where it was quite cold!) and trying to imagine 1000 other people packed in there with only oil lamps. The tower gave great view of the area, including Sweden. Didn’t need to go up the tower to see Sweden though, could see it when we got off the train! Having walked our legs off, we then headed for Louisiana.

That’s Louisiana the modern art museum rather than the state in the US! It’s a lovely museum with lots to see; we managed the exhibit on Nordic design, mainly architecture (New Nordic – Architecture and Identity) and went through Pink Caviar, the exhibit of new items, but we were getting so tired that we had to give up and head back to Copenhagen! I really wanted to see more of the gardens but we just couldn’t manage to walk any more.

So got the train back, but the one we aimed for was late and then very very slow, so we got back a bit later than we expected. Still in time to go to Els for dinner; we’d seen it last night but weren’t hungry enough to eat there. Tonight we were hungry and realised we’d missed meals in the day! So we had a three course dinner and it was very nice.

Now back at the hotel for a final drink then bed.