As you will know we are playing catch-up with our blog so excuse us as you may be ambushed with our trivial adventures over the next few weeks. Having now travelled through the main island of Jutland in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden the only thing left for Scandinavia was to make our way back into Denmark, the Fyn and Zeeland islands, before our migration south. Our first stop was Helsingor. It is one of Denmark’s most historic towns with entire streets of colour - washed buildings and a famous renaissance style castle, Kronberg. Originally build around 1425 by King Eric of Pomerania when he introduced the “Sound Dues”, fees paid to the Danish crown by all ships passing through the Baltic. It was Shakespeare more than anyone, who made the castle famous by using it
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