Today I had another grand multi city trip planned further into the Denmark interior to take advantage of my three day rail pass. Todays trip would take me first 90 mins by rail into the central interior town of Odense famous as the birthplace of Hans Christian Anderson.Odense is also famous for the third of Denmark's water castles, Egeskov, having visited the first two Frederiksborg and Kronborg yesterday. However the castle is 30 kms outside of town, and the con...

Next stop was the coastal border town of Helsingor the home of Kronborg, Hamlets castle. There is meant to be a direct train from Hillerod to Helsingor but confusingly there is also a longer loop local train.As I arrived I missed the train and luckily it was the longer loop one so good job I didn't get on that one. I waited for the noon train and arrived in 26 mins at Helsingor.The rain was heavy and there were meant to be a couple of things in the town by the st...

I'd been to Copenhagen before in 2003 so this time I was just using it as a hotel stop and planning to do trips outside the city with my rail pass. I'd seen a documentary about Denmark's Water Castles when I was living in Korea so I was hoping to visit two of the most famous and largest ones outside of Copenhagen.Rather ambitiously the second one takes me to the Sweden border. So I was hoping to take the ferry across and continue down the Swedish side to the bord...

Todays confusing itinerary was to get from Hamburg to Copenhagen. There is an intercity express that stops in Lubeck. I got a local ticket to Lubeck, then needed to be on the Intercity Express from Lubeck to Copenhagen.I'd bought a Denmark Rail Pass for my 3 days there but that was only valid from Denmark. I still needed a local ticket from Lubeck to the Denmark border which is a ferry crossing not a land border.You also needed a seat reservation from Lubeck to C...