Monday 21 May 2012
We arose fairly early to say goodbye to our new friend Laara who needed to be at work and had to catch a ferry. By 1 PM we had cleaned up and packed the van and were ready to head to Goteborg in Sweden.
We all looked at each other in short sleeved shirts and sandals and just laughed to think how freezing cold we were only a few days earlier on the Sognefjord.
By 2:45 we had entered Goteborg, (our second time), since before we had only driven through on our way north. The place we found to park near the river had a breeze and we stayed to cool off for half an hour but decided not to search for more permanent parking. (Have we mentioned that that aspect of car travel is intimidating and sometimes off-putting? -- since there are so many signs, often in another language, and restrictions to figure out, with expensive fines.)
We caught the ferry to Denmark around 8PM and ran up the stairs to see Hamlet's Castle across the channel. What a beautiful sight! Kroneberg Castle inspired Shakespeare either in person or from stories other thespians told him of the castle on the sea. His "borrowing" of an old Danish story about a son who pretends to be insane in order to kill his father was expertly set in his own time, and perhaps he gave credit to the original legend, or didn't. At any rate we found parking near the castle, had Chinese sweet and sour sauce over rice, then tried to go to sleep while a man with the headlights on in his car pulled up right in front and facing us, sat till 1 AM.
We arose fairly early to say goodbye to our new friend Laara who needed to be at work and had to catch a ferry. By 1 PM we had cleaned up and packed the van and were ready to head to Goteborg in Sweden.
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| Goodbye, Sweden |
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| Hello, Denmark |
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| Pictures of the Danish royal family on ferry |
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| The castle |
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