Trip Report: Denmark, Day 5

Morten had left us some bread and fruit, which we had been eating for breakfast, but we ran out on Wednesday and went to the coffee shop on the corner for food.

Then we walked to the train station, where Ben got stung by a bee. !!!!

Fortunately he isn't allergic and the bee must have been weak or something because it was all back to normal by the next day.

We went to Hillerød, the location of Fredericksborg Castle, which Rick Steves says is "Denmark's Versailles." It was extremely fancy, I have to say.

Everything was very ornate.

The castle is also arranged sort of as a national history museum, with paintings and furniture organized chronologically so as you go through the castle you learn about Denmark's various monarchs.

For lunch we went to a kabob/shwarma place, which are all over Denmark. It was really really good. This was the only time we had a hard time talking to anyone, though, probably because the guy spoke primarily Arabic.  

After lunch we took the train back to Copenhagen and went to Rosenborg Castle, the one that was just a few blocks from our apartment.

Rosenborg is where the royal family lived until they decided it was too dark and gloomy and moved to Fredericksborg. I mean, look at this place. Totally unacceptable.

There is a sweet throne made of narwhal tusks at Rosenborg, though!

Old.

The Royal Wine Cellar.

The best part of Rosenborg is the treasury, where you can see the official crown jewels of Denmark.

On the way home we stopped in at the Geologisk Museum, since it was included in our tourist card. This big rock was sitting in the driveway behind a truck and we read about it and learned it is the 5th biggest meteorite in the world! Ben was outraged it was just sitting around in the driveway "like a piece of garbage."

For dinner Wednesday night we took a train to the suburbs and had dinner with Morten's parents and his girlfriend Nadia. We felt kind of weird about the whole thing (what if they were murderers?!) but it ended up being one of the highlights of the trip. Morten has been renting out his place for two years and we were the first ones he'd ever invited over! 

They made us a huge spread of smørrebrød, traditional Danish open sandwiches, which were all amazing, and plied me with lots of beer, wine, and "schnapps" which is definitely not like American schnapps but instead seemed to be straight grain alcohol or similar. We ended up staying for hours chatting about all sorts of stuff - they travel a lot and were very interested in the United States. Top two questions were: 1. Can you really just walk into a store and buy a gun? and 2. What is the deal with Donald Trump? Yay, America!