It's Sunday. It Must Be Denmark.

We have just realised that with our ferry trip tomorrow to Fredrikshavn, it means that we will be in 3 different countries in 3 days. This is something we said that we would never do - but it is not as bad as it sounds.

On Friday we farewelled Norway and travelled by train to Goteborg in Sweden which only took 4 hours. We had planned to travel south in Sweden to Helsinborg before the half hour ferry trip to Helsingor in Denmark. Instead, tomorrow we take a 3 and a half hour ferry trip to Fredrikshavn in Denmark and will travel by train through the Jutland peninsula to Copenhagen.

We decided to trade Hamlet's castle in Helsingor for Aalborg's Lindholm Hoje, Denmark's largest Viking burial ground with 700 graves from the Iron Age and Viking era along with Arhus' 2000 year old Grauballe man more commonly known as the Peat Bog Man.

For those of you who think that the Prince of Denmark should have won over the Bog Man, I can demonstrate that I have retained my knowledge of the classics with the following extract from Polonius' speech.

Give every man thine ear but few thy voice,
Take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy
Rich not gaudy
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
For loan oft loses both itself and a friend
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all
To thine ownself be true
And it shall follow as the light the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Thank you to Mrs Nay, my grade 5 teacher who taught me that more than 50 years ago.

Why can I remember this but not remember where I packed the corkscrew yesterday?