Night location: Copenhagen Being our final day in Denmark we decided to spend the day exploring the city. After a leisured breakfast we set off for the residence of Queen Margrethe II and more importantly, Princess Mary and Prince Frederik. Only a short walk from our hotel, we arrived at Amalienborg Palace which consists of four identical palaces around an octagonal square. Also of note was The Marble Church with its impressive green copper dome just outside th...

Night location: Copenhagen A massive day today starting with a train trip to Helsingor, the town of Kronborg Slot, also known as Elsinore - Hamlet's castle. Disembarking the train we started the 20 minute walk in the direction of the castle. Today was definitely an icebreaker thermal, fire socks, gloves, beanie and ski jacket sort of day! The wind was fiercely cold! Upon arriving at the castle we booked ourselves into the 'Footsteps of Hamlet' tour to be cond...

Night location: Copenhagen Today was a transit day from Amsterdam to Copenhagen. We left our apartment and caught the tram then train to the airport. All went well and after checking in we proceeded through security. The Dutch have certainly mastered airport security. We scanned our boarding passes to enter the screening area and then were ushered to our individual stations where trays were automatically fed to us from under the bench. After going through and b...