Copenhagen to Esjberg
We caught the train to the airport to pick up our rental car and then headed north to check out Frederiksborg Slot ("castle" to us). Our Danish is coming along well, we can now say hello, which is pronounced "hi", goodbye which is "hi hi", and thank you ("tak"). See, learning another language isn’t that hard at all!
The grounds of Frederiksborg are large and manicured with a magnificent moat and impressive buildings, we wandered around the garden for a while but didn't enter the castle.
From there we drove for a few hours to Esbjerg on the western coast of Denmark, to visit the “Men by the Sea”, four big (9 metre high) sculptures of men looking out across the ocean.
Our hotel in Esbjerg “A Place To” was quite unusual, it looks like a renovated silo but is actually a new tower designed to be sustainable and maintenance free. We were on one of the upper levels with a balcony so we had a wonderful view across the ocean, port and green lands.
We enjoyed our evening with a meal in the main square, we felt like we weren't in a tourist town but in a more "normal" Danish town as there seemed to be very few, if any, tourists around.
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