Fredesborg to Helsingor – 12 miles.
My hotel last night was rather posh for me but I am worth it!
This morning I nipped out for a bike ride around the gardens of the Fredesborg Slot.
I checked out the gardens at the back…
I’ve got a track record of riding my bike in the grounds of Stately Homes when I shouldn’t. I wouldn’t mind but I was the only person in the gardens and riding slowly on proper paths. I slowly cycled away.
I had a short ride to Helsingor. It was an easy route to the coast and then north to the small city in the north east corner of Zealand.
In English we know the city as Elsinore which was the location of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. Can you remember that from your English Lit at school?
The castle in the city is called Kronborg, it is stunning.
I arrived pretty early and I was allowed straight into my hotel room….
The man on reception was chatty and interesting and whilst I was in my room the hotel window cleaner came to do the windows. Not too interesting I hear you think….but we had a very deep and meaningful conversation about the state of the world, globalism, Mr Trump and the impending disaster of AI. He was really interesting. When I review the hotel I will make a special mention of the very clean windows.
I went out to check out the city and the Slot. I loved what I saw.
It is another royal palace that is very large and very grand. The interiors had been ripped out whilst the place was used as a barracks so it didn’t have quite so grand interiors but it was still fab.
To complete the sequence….
Hamlet was a purely fictional Prince of Denmark. He must have been fictional because since 1600 all Danish kings have either been Christian or Frederik.
I spent a few hours around the Slot and walking around the waterfront too. It was a pure pleasure.
I visited a couple of churches in the centre and walked the main streets. It was a pretty old town either many worthy buildings.
I called into the Kulturhus and asked if there were any performances in the city tonight….and I ended up booking a ticket to see ‘Willow Hill’ an American Country singer. Could be interesting? I may be out after dark tonight for the first time.
I will have to report in tomorrow’s blog.
But where will I be when I send that blog…. ‘That is the question’!
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