This is the country where our cruise started and ended. Since our cruise ended on a long weekend, we decided we were in no hurry to come home so we stayed one extra day in Copenhagen.
We disembarked from our cruise ship by tender in Helsingor. We toured Hamlet's castle and worked our way by bus back to Copenhagen. Then we toured the city for the rest of the day and spent our last cruise night on the ship. In the morning we transferred to our hotel where Lisa took over as tour guide. As is typical of Lisa, she was on a mission to wear my poor feet out. It turned out to be a great day and we really enjoyed ourselves in Denmark. In fact, if I had to pick only one event that was really exciting, it would be our visit to a cathedral (more on that later)!!!
Here we are once again taking tenders to get ashore. The only other port that was too small for our ship was in Sweden. This stop is at Helsingor, Denmark.
We are on our way to visit Hamlet's castle (above). It looks pretty cool from the outside, but was a little boring inside, so I won't include anymore photos of it. While we were checking out the castle, the cruise ship continued on to Copenhagen. After visiting the castle, we boarded buses and worked our way down the coastline and eventually ended up in Copenhagen. The castle's official name is Kronborg Castle.
One cool thing about Copenhagen that you can't miss are all the electric generating wind mills/fans. They built them right out into the water.
This is a cool area called Nyhavn. This is where there is a bunch of outdoor cafe's. We saw it when we first arrived in Copenhagen. Now that our cruise is over, Lisa dug out a map and took us to this street for dinner. The Danish eat a lot of weird things like pickled herring (yuck), but we managed to find something normal to eat :-)
Lisa on the same street. It used to be a shipping and trade area.
Brad by a canal in the city
We also went inside this place which is called Rosenborg. We saw all the crown jewels which are guarded here by soldiers.
Continue with Denmark