Took the bigger regional train to some palaces today. Away from the city you get more of a sense of what the actual country of Denmark looks likes landscape-wise. It’s surprising to me how lush and green and flowering everything is. It reminds me a lot of Portland or Parts of Virginia.

We all got off at the wrong stop at first and ended up at the Queen’s summer palace. Which was alright by me, since we got a little bit of time to explore around the palace and town. Ashlee and I went into the park that surrounded the palace and it was almost magical with how green and lush everything was. The path at first had a canopy of trees overhead so it was like a green tunnel, eventually we turned along another path which led to the grounds behind the palace. there we saw monuments and statues and another path leading off into more trees. So of course we followed that one, there we discovered these enormous trees with HUGE central trunks and then lots of smaller offshoot trunks. In total the tree was probably 50 feet across and made a huge shaded canopy underneath its branches. It was like the Keebler elves tree, I kept expecting a door to pop open on the side of the trunk and smell baking cookies.

It was at this point, my alarm I’d set on my phone went off to remind us to meet back with everyone. Ashlee and I started walking back and we ran into a deer on the path and we started snapping pictures. At this point we checked the time and realized we were very late meeting everyone so she and I started running back to the train station.

Back on train and on to Fredricksborg castle! This place amazed me, although much of it is rebuilt, the attention to detail in EVERYTHING, from the tiniest inlays on chairs to the tiles on a wall with unique hunting scenes carved into each to the cieling of the palace church to the grand ballroom. AMAZING. seeing this amount of attention to detail makes me realize, most of what we see in the U.S. are just cheap, plastic, disney-world copies of the rest of the world.

Walking through the gardens was another amazing experience. Although I tend to prefer wilder, more natural looking gardens as opposed to the more manicured ones here, the light was just right and made everything glow in a golden-warm green. 

Hope my pictures from today all come out the way I want them too.