We have generally spent the first day in new cities exploring with no particular motive. Yesterday was no different. We took a short walk from our 8 bed hostel to the Rosenborg Castle. We saw the crown jewels and pushy Italian tourists.

From here we meandred our way to lunch and happened to get lucky this time. We found a hidden gem of a cafe where we were served curry herring and capers with two different types of schnapps, both of which were on the house as we are cute Texan tourists. The yummy elderberry schnapps was home made.

After lunch we window shopped and visited with local jewelry and pottery craftsmen. It’s really interesting here how the storefront is both shop and work studio so were able to ge a peek at the process.

We really enjoyed the botanical garden and it’s huge variety of plants and beautiful glass green houses. Here we took some time to play and sketch. After our picnic dinner we ate gelato and wandered some more. Then bedtime with our 6 roommates.