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...

Today was my birthday but with the daily scheduling I had a long train ride today. There is an express train that goes from Hamburg to Copenhagen via a historic German town of Lubeck so I was going to make a pit stop there before continuing to Copenhagen.In the hotel I had their buffet breakfast (free food) before heading to the station. I had arranged to meet my friend Dorothea this morning. We know each other as we were fellow Korean bloggers and had been invit...

During a Korean travel show on Hamburg I remember seeing a rather unusual underwater tunnel. Aside from allowing pedestrians and bikes there was also a single lane for cars tightly packed in. I wanted to find this tunnel even though its not really a tourist destination.The tunnel was easy to find in the cruise ship district which was full of tourists, tour buses, and tour boats.London has a similar foot tunnel in Greenwich we used to visit as kids, built in Victo...