An excursion day. After a nice onboard breakfast of french toast we hopped on the tour bus at 9am and our guide Michael took us to 2 castles, 1 residence and to lunch. Firstly a 90 minute drive up the coast to Hamlets Castle (Kronborg). A magnificent place on the coast. Learnt about the tax system for boats wanting to enter the Baltic past this, the narrowest gap between Denmark and Sweden. Fire destroyed much of the castle including many of the tapestries but s...

Nice sunrise at 6am, watching the boat move towards the Oresund Bridge (which connects Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmo, Sweden). By 7am we were in port near the little mermaid. Walked to the glyptotek as we had decided that was the one thing in Copenhagen we missed last time and wanted to do the most. Unfortunately it didnt open until 11am, so we had a quiet 30 minutes sitting outside it watching life go by. The Glyptotek was excellent, plenty of famous statues, ...

15 minutes until 10am, we are sitting in the Rose Garden of Rosenborg Slot. We had a beautiful breakfast at the hotel, very thin pancakes, jam and scrambled eggs. Fighting the urge to take the easy way out we headed east on foot, walking through cobbled streets past uni buildings and the round tower. The Rosenborg Gardens are a pleasure, low rows of trees, the statue of Hans Christian Andersson, a sports field and of course the rose garden. Roses, lavender and ...

5am Copenhagen time. 90 minutes until we land in Copenhagen, just had breakfast. Interesting flight from Singapore to Copenhagen. We flew from Singapore to over Dehli to over a place called Tula just south of Moscow and are now over Minsk. So we went north of the Ukraine. We got probably 2 hours sleep, I just hope we can check into our hotel early (9amish). Thought I tore a rib early on when jumping over the armrest to get up. Nasty chest cramp but it settled do...