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hangchoi · « **Reply #70 on:** 26 April 2018, 12:14:28 »

When we walked back to the city center from the little mermaid, we passed by the St Alban's Church and Gefionspringvandet. They are the church for the barrack.

hangchoi · « **Reply #71 on:** 26 April 2018, 12:18:34 »

Nyhavn is the restaurant and hot tourist spot for clubbing / drinking. A bit like Venice or Amsterdam.

hangchoi · « **Reply #72 on:** 26 April 2018, 12:20:57 »

Foods in Copenhagen are generally very good, but the highly rated restaurants need early reservation. We went to have steak that night and we are satisfied from entree to dessert, wine too.

hangchoi · « **Reply #73 on:** 26 April 2018, 12:27:28 »

We activated our Copenhage Card the next day and started our 3-day activities in Copenhagen area. The first day was a day of outing. We took an hour train to Hillerod. We went there to visit Frederiksborg Castle. This is the official introduction: Frederiksborg Castle is the largest Renaissance Castle in Scandinavia. The castle was built by King Christian IV in the early decades of the 17th century and incorporates the best of Renaissance architecture and craftsmanship. Now this castle is the national museum and a world heritage.

You need to take a 15 minute walk from rail station to the castle but part of the path is along the lake, which gives you a good view of the castle.

hangchoi · « **Reply #74 on:** 26 April 2018, 12:31:31 »

The castle is beautiful and classic. Good use of the colour and pattern. A lot of craftwork too. I had visited quite a number of castle in Europe but this one is worth to visit. The last picture is the entrance hall to dinner room. Interesting colour matching.

hangchoi · « **Reply #75 on:** 26 April 2018, 12:33:22 »

The church inside the castle. Huge and grand.......

hangchoi · « **Reply #76 on:** 26 April 2018, 12:36:28 »

Corridor, living room, bedroom, study room, they used different colour and decoration to give different style and feeling.

hangchoi · « **Reply #77 on:** 26 April 2018, 12:38:19 »

Outside the castle there is a large garden overseeing it.

hangchoi · « **Reply #78 on:** 26 April 2018, 12:46:08 »

Our next move was to Helsingor. The town so close to Sweden and indeed you can go to Sweden by ferry next to the rail station. From Hillerod to Helsingor the train took us half an hour. We went there to visit Kronborg, a world heritage and the stage of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

This castle is rather simple, without much fancy decoration. Some barracks were built around it as Helsingor has its strategic location for Denmark's defense.

hangchoi · « **Reply #79 on:** 26 April 2018, 12:48:48 »

At the roof of Kronborg, you can see Sweden across the sea. Some tourist went to Helsingor to visit Kronborg and then took the ferry to Sweden, then they can claim that they have visited one more country.