Helsingor & Rosklide trip...

29th September:

Woke up damn early today... about 6 plus ba... Cos its gonna be a long day for us... planned a one day trip around Denmark... haha... quite excited about it.. 2 main highlights of the day... Krongborg Castle at Helsingor.. the castle that inspired Hamlet by Shakespears and the Vikings museum in Rosklide...

Helsingør (Elsinore)

1st Destination of the day... Helsingør, in English it's known as Elsinore... From here, u can actually see Sweden's Helsingborg... Read more about this place by clicking on the link! :)

The journey for the day started off with this...


The 24 hour ticket!!! haha... it's kinda stupid cos a 2 way ticket to Elsinore will cos is 130 bucks while a 24 hour ticket is only 110 bucks... haha...

Journey from Lyngby to Elsinore takes about... 30 to 45 mins.. it's pretty fast considering that it is quite far away... Quite like the trains in Denmark.. it looks new... and they have LED display which shows which station u are at and which station u are approaching... there's even dots to show ur proximity to the next station.. ie: the lesser the dots the nearer u are... Singapore should adopt this system man! haha...

1st impression when i reach Elsinore... it's a very beautiful town... hell, even the train station looks like some kind of castle like building... haha! the streets are those old medieval kind of streets... and as the other parts of Denmark are... u can almost see no tall buildings.. and any tall buildings there are will be some historical buildings... HOW NICE!!

Since we reach pretty early.. and we realised that the toursim office is sitll closed till 10.30am... we decided to walk around the town 1st... there's a large network of wide pedestrian street (cars will pass by sometimes too!) which alot of smalls stalls around... and also we passed by a few pastries shops... omg.. the pastries looks damn nice!!! haha... one more objective of the day then.. TO EAT DANISH PASTRIES!!! hehe...

After walking for sometime, we realised it's already 10.30(time flies..) so we went to the tourism office... to get some maps and maybe advice on where to go... Well as expected from our research.. it's the same few places to go.. hehe =X



After walking for some time in the ultra strong wind...(yes it's really strong!!! for a moment i can't move forward lor!!! =/) we finally is near the Kronborg castle!! It's a really nice castle... the view from far is damn nice... a castle just by the sea... haha.. no wonder Shakespear decided to write Hamlet.. hehe( Shakespears was inspired by this castle to write Hamlet, in fact Hamlet was supposed to take place there!)

Here's the photos~

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From Kronborg, u can actually see Sweden... on the opposite shore is Helsingborg.. As this castle is by the sea.. the wind there is also super-duper-ultra strong... phew.. what's with the strong wind in Denmark sia.. LOL... but i must say... nice scenery there...

Here are some paranormal pictures i took.. :) not very nice but i think it's a bit better...=X


Krongborg Castle... from afar...


Krongborg from the side...


More of Kronborg...


Kronborg Square...


View of Sweden from the Castle..

After having a happy trigger session of my camera... haha.. we decided to walk back to the town... on our way.. we drop by a part which is like a protruding part of Elsinore... and saw this statue..



Don't know what it is about... tried to research online but to no avail... =/


Anyway, we continued on to the next attraction, Church of St. Mary...

After some walking... we finally reach the place... however, it seems closed and we can't seem to find the main entrance... haha.. saw a door and we just open and go in.. =X

Well, it's quite a simple Church... nothing much really... maybe becos today is off season so really quiet.. hehe... in you guys are interested can read about it, just click on the link! Tried taking a few photographs.. but that place damn dark.. cos it's all enclosed place like dat... and it's quite eerie there i tot... like those kind of horror movie like dat... and maybe one scene can actually go into the movie "The Omen".. hehe.. =X



After the Church.. it started to rain so we carried on to walk the other parts of the town... but as it's raining.. so we decided to just go and buy our lunch(Danish pastries) and go back... However as Anthony read somewhere that there's a very nice ice cream stall somewhere there.. so we decided to look for it!! and this is what we found...


The ice cream stall~

And this is what we got!


Danish Ice cream!!

haha...see clearly and there's a WHOLE LOT OF WHIPPED CREAM on it.. haha! i went in and asked for the ice cream and the stall owner asked if i want whipped cream.. i hesitated and she said "you should have it, it's the danish way!"

haha... glad i did.. it was quite nice... with the cream and some fruity syrup.. yum yum!!!


Here's me with the ice cream!! :D


Group photo!

After the treat.. we hurried over to the train station to catch the train to Rosklide.. for the Viking museum..which closes at 5pm...



Well got onto the train... which saw a word Rosklide on it.. so we just boarded it.. after taking the ride for about 1 hr plus... a train conductor came up and while checking our tickets.. asked us where we are going.. we told her "Rosklide" and she said something in English but we couldn't catch much of it.. but heard something like "Glamso"... she left and we were pretty much lost(literally and also lost with what she told us)... Luckily.. a very nice guy walked up to me and asked me where i'm going.. i told him "Roskilde" and he told me that we are at "Glamso" now.. and have to take a backward train to Rosklide... OMG... -.-

Well.. the journey back will be about at least 45 mins.. and it's already 4 plus then.. haha! there goes our Vikings Museum.. but nonetheless.. i'm really glad for the Danish guy!! they are really so helpful! :)


We got off the next stop... and waited for the train back... An American girl was lost too... haha.. same mistakes.. cos apparently the train didn't stop at Roskilde but passes by it... :(

the train back was here and we boarded it(after asking for help) and after boarding the train.. we realise, to our horror.. that the train is spoilt and we have to wait for another one... talk about bad luck eh!!! =/


Changing trains...

After some changing of trains and stuffs... we finally reach Roskilde...


Fianlly after a long journey... :)

Roskilde Cathedral is our 1st stop... quite a nice Catherdral.. towering and vert prominent... haha... seems like Buildings in Denmark like to use red bricks for thier structures... We then carried on to the vikings Museum... though we knew it's closed.. just wanted to see if we can see any viking ship etc there... however.. it was kinda disappointing for me as i'm expecting something magnificent.. but the ships were... errm... normal? haha...

on the way there we saw a sign... "Fiskeri og badning forbudt"... wonder what it means??? haha

It means... "Fishing and bathing prohibited"... =X



On our way back to the train station... i decided to eat the Danish Pastries i bought... :)


Danish Pastries anyone?? :)


Yum yum!

The pastries is also full of whipped cream.. haha.. went into the shop and asked for something Danish.. =D

quite nice though.. the chocolate was ok.. the crust is superb!! haha!


After that.. supposed to go back to Elsinore to see the night scenery of Kronborg... but i was really quite tired.. so decided to go home.. hehe =X

On our way back... we took a double decker train!!! haha.. so cool!!! then we enter.. happily go to the 2nd floor.. and to our surprise, it's empty!!! wahahaha... so we happily joyfully gracefully took out all our stuffs and started eating... and... then... the conductor came... and we realised that it is a 1st class seats... LOL!! but well.. at least we sat there for a while.. here's the pictures!!! :)



One thing about their trains.. so nice one... all got those table for u to eat etc... hehe...

Well.. that concludes my long trip for the day... walked alot.. seen quite alot... can't wait for my next travel... haha!! :)

Kelvin