Torekov Hotel

Hallo!
Didn't do a great deal today. I slept in then took the train to Helsingor which is about 45 minutes away and saw Kronborg castle (the castle used in Hamlet), alot of construction work going on the restore it. Right across the water you can see Sweden. It is still a little strange to me how close everything is. The two train tickets cost me 50 dollars! Then I went and gorged myself on a 30 dollar Asian Buffet. I still feel like I am going to split ...

The weekend has been so relaxing! It's my first time to go to a Spa-hotel and I thought it was liberating to be able to go around wearing robes ;) massage, gym, sauna+freezing cold ocean+hot tub, swimming pool and the food was delish... I really have no complains at all!

... the train, so I was really glad I understood Danish.... until they repeated it in English anyway :( It was funny because they told us to leave all our stuff on the train which an English guy had a bit of a problem with. "If we were back in England we wouldnt be allowed to do that.... what if there was a bomb in the bag???". Paranoid much? It was so exciting being on the ferry as I had a lot of memories of being a little girl with my family on this ferry. I remembered the same ...

Visited Kronborg castle in Helsingor. Blown away by the conditions the soldiers had to put up with. Also saw a statue of "Ogier the Dane" down in the depths of the castle. The legend goes that he is sleeping down there and will come up to protect Denmark in times of national crisis. Same theme as King Arthur with England. Awesome statue though.

... however a whole industry has sprung up around travel via ferry from Sweden to Denmark because Sweden and Denmark have different tax rates for certain items. For example, tobacco products are much cheaper in Sweden but alcohol is cheaper in Denmark because of lower tax rates. Additionally, the Denmark krone is tied to the Euro, whilst the Swedish kronor is not...meaning a very favourable exchange ...

A late night when I was just crawling into bed to succumb to my tiredness, my phone played the happy tune it always does, when my brother is at the other end of the line. It was Birgitte, his girlfriend, asking me to go on a holiday with Kenneth! Usually this would seem as an odd request; however this time it seemed very natural. My ...

... Today was very hot. The train ride back to Copenhagen had no air conditioning however we did get a warm breeze when the train moved. Needless to say we took a shower when we got to the hotel before we went to dinner in the Tivoli. We ate at a "Viking" restaurant where we had reindeer and elk for appetizer and I had a large steak and fried potatoes and Julia had ...

... for it!" He further pressed me to accept the loan of the cloak, but I would not, feeling doubtful about his getting it back again from Gothenburg; - but I did as bhe bade me about my own clothing, which I coated on until perfectly stiffened with it. My friend next told me to hand him a slip of paper, and he would give me a note to an acquaintance of his in Qvebille, (one of the stations on my route,) and who kept the posting-house there. I handed him my pocket-book ...

... to that by which we had entered. I did the same; and in a little more time than it takes to describe it, I was at the heels of the good-natured Hebrew on the way to the Post Office. Pushing his way into the principal room, and bowing to the clerks, he inquired, in English, whether they had a spare place left in the diligence for his friend here! A volume ledger-like proportions was lifted down from the shelf, and the clerk, after a little search in, looked up and said that I ...

... he was a Japanese man living in England. What does that make Lucy and me !!!!! He told us some info about the painted Monasteries we are hoping to visit, but we had to get away as he was foaming at the mouth. We were sure he was rabid !!!!! We flew, we landed at Copenhagen, bought some tickets for the train, ferry trip to Sweden, and went. Oh yeah, it was cold, and I mean brass monkeys. It was 19 and we were used to 33 !!!!! Once off of the ferry, we ...