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Saturday afternoon in northern Zealand or southern Sweden… what shall we do? Pub? Restaurant? Shopping? Park? How about country-hopping on the ferry? Or just stay all day (!) on board as it shuttles back and forth the 4 km Oresund channel between Denmark’s Helsingor and Sweden’s Helsingborg. Swedes take the boat to access cheap(er) alcohol in Denmark whilst Danes go to Sweden … well, to avoid boozy Swedes!
Up to a couple of hundred foot passengers will get on at the Swedish end, but only a couple of dozen disembark in Denmark- the remainder staying on board to dine or drink with friends. And why not? For 70 krona (about $14) you can stay all day or evening, enjoy sunset over the sea, pass Kronborg- Hamlet’s castle- to be or not to be, again and again.
Helsingor (Denmark), better known as Elsinore, is a tourist town with the quaint streets and loads of liquor stores and bicycles. It also has the Little Mer-boy, a complement to Copenhagen’s more famous statue. Helsingor is only 45 minutes by train from Copenhagen and 15 minutes from the Louisiana modern art gallery.
Helsingborg (Sweden) is a small bustling city, but with grand architecture and intimate but buzzing squares, offering a more urban experience. We popped over from Denmark for dinner! Meanwhile on the boat, the multinational merriment continued well into the night. It was the night of Eurovision. How apt.
Dr D in Oz 