The last day had us finally getting to visit Frederiksborg, which closed to early for us to reach on our way up to Helsingør. We arrived not long after it opened. We parked near the gardens and walked around the moat until we were able to approach the front. The grounds were extraordinary.
The inside of the castle was very extensive and had by far the most to see, of all of the castles we visited in Denmark. I am now going to bombard you with a ridiculous amount of pictures of the beautiful things we saw inside.
Our second of three stops for the day landed us at the round gardens. This community of oval shaped properties was designed by a landscape architect named Søren Carl Theodor Marius Sørensen. None of the homes have parking for cars, which makes the area very green. This design was meant to encourage walking and socialization with neighbors. The owners were allowed to choose the location of their cottages and design the internal organization of their plots. We parked nearby and spent a few minutes walking around the properties.
Our last stop was based on a recommendation by Janne, from back in Copenhagen. It is a waste management plant that houses a cafe on its roof and a ski slope down its side. With such an odd combination, I just had to check it out.
Rather than walk up the side, I decided that we should take the elevator to the roof cafe and then walk down. We entered the elevator and there was a single button other than the ground floor. As we began to lift, I realized that both sides of the elevator was see through, and the factory was extremely open. The gliding motion of the elevator, combined with having nowhere for me to safely focus my eyes gave me a bit of a height related panic. I dropped to one knee, held the wall, closed my eyes, and breathed. Once we reached the top, luckily alive, I immediately jumped out of the elevator onto the solid roof.
We walked down the stairs to the bottom, while watching a few people attempt to ski.
Copenhill was only ten minutes from the airport hotel, which was across the street from the airport. We got our covid test in the airport, which would allow us to reenter the US. We ran into a bit of a conundrum when trying to submit paperwork to the airlines. We were required to fill out the combined passenger disclosure and attestation to the United States of America. This was a 7 page document, which required us to each fill out 3 pages. I had the hotel front desk print this up for us. At first, I tried to sign on Miles' behalf, but the airlines threw it back at us as "insufficient information." I guess, correctly, that they wanted him to sign his own paperwork, as they listed his airline ticket as "adult."
Another small adjustment to our schedule happened during the night, which was Denmark's daylight savings time. With an 8:45 AM flight, we did not get much sleep that night.
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