Copenhagen
This morning we caught the train to Kronberg Castle, famously known as "Hamlet’s castle". K had gone through a Hamlet stage at high school so had this visit near the top of her list. It was raining and cold on the walk from the station to the castle - welcome to summer in Denmark! The castle was well kept and interesting even though there is no proof that Shakespeare ever visited and Hamlet is of course fiction, it was still good to see the back drop for the famous play.
After heading back to town we went for a change of scenery with a visit to Freetown (also known as Christiania) on one of Denmark's islands. The autonomous commune was started in 1971 and we took a stroll down Pusher St where they had little stalls selling cannabis - kind of weird because apparently it's illegal but you wouldn't think so judging by the open trading. The general vibe of the whole area was your usual hippy commune kind of thing (think Nimbin perhaps?) i.e. multicoloured and generally grotty but still with shops and stalls trying to get some of those the capitalist tourist dollars (or krones in this case!).
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