Copenhagen Day 3: Roskilde, Church of Our Savior

 Thursday morning, we ate breakfast and then headed to the train station.

Megan, Matthew and Me waiting for the train to Roskilde.

From the train station in Roskilde, we walked to the cathedral. I loved the yellows and reds of the buildings.

Cool gate.

The cathedral was really cool and we enjoyed wandering all around it.

Me and Megan gazing upward.

A building around the cathedral. Maybe the vicarage?

Some more photos of the cathedral from our walk around it.

Megan and Me with some lovely yellow arches.

U, Megan, Matthew and Me with a yellow building.

From the cathedral, we wandered down to the Viking Ship Museum.

Saint John's spring

Another spring we saw on our way.

Birds

U showing some of the rope at the Viking Ship Museum (they had lots of different types with descriptions about when/where each type was used on a ship). Behind him, a lady is making a sail for a ship.

The start of a Viking ship they are building.

A reconstructed Viking ship.

Some more reconstructed ships.

The Viking Museum has 5 original Viking ships on display.

This is a huge cargo ship that could hold up to 20 tons and sail across the North Atlantic and as well as Baltic and North Seas.

This is a smaller trading boat that could hold around 4 tons of cargo and did not travel such great distances.

This is a longship that had around 30 men on its crew.

This is a much bigger longship that likely had a crew of 65-70 men. It may have been a chieftain's ship.

The ship on the left is the longship shown in the picture above. The ship on the right is likely a fishing vessel that was modified by adding a plank on each side resulting in the ship being able to carry more cargo. 

Viking U

Ready to defend his home.

Chieftain U on his longship.

We ate lunch at their cafe. Megan and Me shared the Viking platter, U had a smoked salmon sandwich and Matthew had a ham and cheese sandwich.

Megan, Matthew and Me with one of the reconstructed Viking ships.

We then travelled back to Copenhagen to Church of Our Savior where we climbed the tower.

View from up top.

U, Megan, Me, Matthew

Ready for a tea party?

The church from the ground. It was pretty cool to be able to climb around the outside of the steeple.

We ate Belgian waffles and ice cream for dinner except for U who had a French toast grilled cheese. We then headed back to the hostel. U's step count for the day was 16.6 k.