Castles

castle

Summer Cottage

Elsinore

This is being posted in the internet section of the Copenhagen airport about 2:30 pm (about 7:30 Bwd time) It's not free but as we keep saying, "It's only money". I'll try to add pictures also--pictures are all castles w/ the last one being Elsinore, here goes------------

Castles

Did you know that Shakespear never saw Elsinore Castle? They think he heard about it from a group of actors who had been there and he thought, from how they described it, that it would make a good story. There was a real Hamlet who was Danish and the bare bones of the story was written by a Danish historian. Like many of his other plays, Shakespeare took a bare bones story and made a dramatic narrative of it.

We went in the courtyard of Elsinore (also known as Kronborg Castle--King’s crown castle) and got pictures, but didn’t go in. We did have lunch nearby.

We went into Frederiksborg Slot (Castle) All of their kings have either been named Frederick or Christian and this castle was used by some of the Frederiks. It was elegant and ornate and I can’t prove it cuz altho they let us take pictures, we were forbidden to use the flash. And your average castle is pretty dark. The pictures we took may not turn out very well. Outside shots will be fine. These folks were very paranoid that we might touch something and kept hovering around us. I guess we looked untrustworthy. They tried to take large purses away saying they would watch them, but our folks from Texas weren’t buying it.

The third castle was just a picture stop from down the street of the princess’s summer cottage---a HUGE cottage.

We drove along what our guide called the Danish Rivera.with $ 2-7 Million (dollar not Kroner) houses facing the sea.

We got back to the hotel about 3:30 and had some time to nap and get ready for our “Farewell Dinner” at Tivoli Garden. It is not a garden, but a really old amusement park. It was said that Walt Disney loved visiting Tivoli garden and designed Disneyland like it. We had an elegant dinner (unlike Disneyland) and then had an hour to look around. I could tell Nick was itching to try some of the games--mechanical games and baseball pitching kinds of games, but the language was a barrier. We couldn’t read any signs. We walked around and "people watched", listened to really good “American style” jazz and watched a mime show.
All in all a really good last day. We’re flying out Tuesday afternoon, so we still have some time tomorrow morning. Maybe a museum that is close. No more internet--we paid for 12 hrs and that is gone, so this’ll be posted when I get home sometime Wed. See ya then. E