Trip Report: Denmark, Day 7

The morning after Noma, Ben had come down with the cold, so we were forced to get breakfast that had a lot of fruit in it for vitamin C purposes. We got these delicious tarts at Torvehallerne, a newish food market near the Norreport train station with all sorts of different types of foods.

Mmm, bread. We decided we'd grab dinner here too, on the way home.

We set out via train for Helsingor, home of Kronborg Castle. Kronborg is famous as the setting for Hamlet, but of course Hamlet wasn't real and Shakespeare never visited this area. In reality, Kronborg was set up as a tax collection fortress. It's right on the water, on a narrow strait across from Sweden.

I liked how Kronborg was no-nonsense compared with the ornate palaces we'd visited earlier in the trip. 

There is Sweden across the water.

You can also wander around in the casements beneath the castle. There is a big statue here that is supposed to come to life and defend Denmark if the country is ever attacked, but since nothing happened when the Nazis invaded it's safe to assume the statue is in fact useless.

For lunch we walked back into the little town and got some smorrebrod. Ben ordered two (one smoked fish, one fried fish).

And I got a sampler plate, which turned out to be a terrific deal. I couldn't finish all this stuff.

In addition to butter we got this delicious spread, which we later learned translates as "lard with onions."

After lunch we got back on the train and went south a bit to visit the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. 

A big Yayoi Kusama exhibit had just opened the day before. 

I liked it but Benjamin thought she was obnoxious.

The best thing about the Louisiana is the building and setting. It's beautiful, right on the water. We wandered around for a long time and then just sat on the steps by the ocean for a while.

Back in Copenhagen, we stopped in at Torvehallerne to examine our options for dinner,

We ended up getting takeout Thai. I had big plans for saving money by cooking dinners on this trip, since we had a whole apartment, but we didn't ever cook anything except coffee.

Since Ben was feeling a little under the weather, this was another Stay at Home and Watch Arrested Development evening, which was fine by me. We walked at least 10 miles every single day and I was always ready to sit quietly by early evening!