Tuesday 5 June - went to The Royal Palace (Amalienborg Castle) for the changing of the guard. Unfortunately we did not see Princess Mary.

This was the closest we were allowed to be photographed with the guard.

We visited the Marble Church which was at the end of the castle.

Then we had lunch of the traditional Danish open sandwiches at Nyhaven. You could hardly see the bread underneath the filling.

Roast pork, red cabbage and cucumber on rye bread

Fish cakes and lettuce on rye bread

We had lunch in the orange building

We walked past the Tivoli (the amusement park)) and the City Hall.

Copenhagen City Hall

We then caught a train to Helsingor to see Kronberg Castle of Hamlet fame.  It took about 40 minutes to get there. The castle was built in 1582.

The first moat around the castle

The cannons behind the first moat

The second moat

Inside the entry gate to the Castle

Cannons facing the strait and Sweden in the distance

Room decorated with tapestries on the wall

 Morgan with 2 of the tapestries

We went down underneath the castle into the soldiers' quarters. It was very dark, damp and eerie.

View of the moat from the window in the soldiers quarters

View of Sweden from the  top floor of the castle

Ferry boat that goes to Sweden

Shopping area of Helsingor

Helsingor  Railway Station

On our return to the apartment we decided to try a drink in the local street around the corner from the apartment. It was very small with a bar, pool table and a few tables and chairs. There were several locals sitting at the bar and they looked like they had been there all day. They enjoyed talking to people from Australia.  It reminded us of an Australian country hotel.

Then we had a pizza from a shop a block away from the apartment. It was as good as the pizza we have at at a very good Italian restaurant in Australia.