10-Night France, Iceland, and Norway Cruise - Day 14 Disembarkation and Copenhagen, Denmark
Disembarkation and Copenhagen
In the Caribbean we like second seating dinner but in Europe we prefer first seating. A lot of people are the opposite. This, unfortunately, means early breakfast on disembarkation day. No thanks! We spoke with our serving team and they told us they had an open table in their second seating and we could come for later breakfast. So we slept in and went to breakfast in Animator’s at 8:15. After that we waited to get off the ship. And waited. Apparently passport control was really backed up and they were holding us (growing pains again, apparently). Many people in our cruise group complained about what a mess disembarkation was.
We finally got off the ship and made the short walk to the city bus stop and found a bus there waiting. Only a couple other families were taking the city bus. We got to the metro station and found the train and took it to the central station in Copenhagen. Our hotel was only about a 5 minute walk from there. We dropped off our baggage and then walked about 10 minutes to the Budget car rental. It took awhile to get our rental car because their system was offline but we were finally underway at around 10:45 AM. A little later than we wanted, but we would make it work.
Our first stop was about an hour away to the town of Roskilde, which was a super cute little town. We enjoyed some lunch in town (after having a really hard time finding parking). After lunch we drove over to the Viking Ship Museum which is a huge museum that only holds five things: five viking ships. These ships were purposefully sunk by the vikings to create a barrier in the harbor. They took some old ships out a little ways, filled them with stones and sank them. In addition to these ships, the museum has reconstructions of the five ships outside that you can look at (and one you can climb into).
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When we were done exploring there we had a little ice cream from a food truck parked outside before leaving for Lejre Land of Legends which Emmaline called Viking “Pilgrim World” (after the reenactment place from Wednesday). She claims it was dorky, but she actually had a lot of fun. But she had to be a teenager and be too cool for that, so it was silly and dorky. The great hall they built was really impressive. They had a couple of villages and a lot of different activities available. It was peaceful and pretty and we enjoyed our time there.
We made the hour drive back to Copenhagen (during which time I had lights flashed at me and was honked at twice - they were not super kind drivers in Denmark). We returned the rental car (which was quicker than the pick up, thankfully) and went back to check into our hotel room. We did a little reorganizing and then went off to dinner. We had traditional Danish food which none of us were super into but I’m glad we tried it. Then we stopped for a few groceries at a local market before heading back to our hotel room.
We had missed the last few stages of the Tour de France and had amazingly been able to avoid spoilers. We brought our Fire Stick with Peacock on it and eagerly plugged it in. Aaaaand Peacock wouldn’t work in Denmark. Dang it. Well, Netflix did and so we watched a bit of the new Tour de France documentary about last year’s tour. It felt right being in Denmark (where they LOVE all things cycling) watching a show about cycling. We went to bed a little early. It had been a long day.
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