It just so happens that the way from Copenhagen to Malmo is to drive along the seashore until you get to Elsinore. Sound familiar? That's where Hamlet's castle was and that is what you see behind us here. We are at the moat. A very effective defense system, especially since all the soldiers pooped and peed in it for 100 years.

The Little Mermaid is on loan to China for a year so Nanna and Soham became Danish mermaids for us along the beach wall of Elsinore Castle.

Since it was Monday the museum part was closed so we could not go inside. But when we went into the courtyard we discovered a whole class of little children, some of them in Viking gear with little swords re-enacting their history. So cute. Their lunch boxes had sandwiches and broccoli. I thought, how cool. American kids don't usually have broccoli in their lunch boxes and obviously Europe is so much more healthy, organic and smart than we are. Then I noticed that not one kid was eating the broccoli.

A nice lady from the US offered to take our picture all together. Thank you.

We felt that there would have been no way to successfully attack this castle. The only thing you could do would be to lay seige to it. Prevent supplies from entering.

Another view from the ferry taking us to Sweden. Powerful spot, for sure.

You can't really see the writing on this life preserver but the name of this ferry is Hamlet.

Our beautiful Danish friends, Nanna and Soham.