København - Roskilde

Took the train to Kastrup airport to see if my SAS vouchers could get us a flight to Oslo. Unfortunately, it was going to be over DKR 4,000 return, the internet fares last night were DKR 1,400 for the two of us to go, but the vouchers can't be used online. I made a booking for Wednesday, and then we headed back for breakfast in Copenhagen. Danish pastries of course, and coffee at a little place attached to an information centre across the road from the Tivoli.


We got the train for Roskilde, spending until early afternoon there. The caretaker at Roskilde Domkirke recognised me and let us in part way through a church service - lovely to hear the organ and the congregation singing.

After that we hit the waterfront, the home of the Vikingships museum, had another coffee and watched a blacksmith at work making nails. The old Viking traditions of ship building are kept alive there, At the museum I bought a CD of what musicologists presume the musical instruments of the Vikings must have sounded like. Quite tuneful, though some very strange sounds are emitted from horns.

I called back afterwards to thank him - he said he was on the second of four services there today. Thence to Bryggegårten for lunch - it wasn't open until midday, but we had only 5 minutes to wait. Some of the nicest pasta and smoked salmon I could hope to taste anywhere! Made Skype contact with Christopher, and found the signal persisted out in the street so were able to give him a front row seat at a performance by a hat-wearing gambler who gave me a treatise on how the only computer system worth operating was linix because it was free.


The Danish trains are efficient - clean, quiet and frequent. This is being written on the train heading back to Copenhagen. Back in Copenhagen we explored the waterfront around Nyhavn and saw the new opera house just across from the Danish Admiral Hotel.

From there to the palace!