The next two days proved quite interesting. We drove up to Helsingor and saw Kronborg Castle - known for being the setting for Hamlet. It is a beautiful castle and what I remember most from visiting it was the statue of Holger the Dane which according to legend when Denmark is threatened it will turn to flesh and bone and rise to defend the country. During the Second World War, one of the most important resistance cells was named after Holger.
So that night we spent in the backyard of friends of my honourary grandparents. We had never met them before and when we were going over my grandparents had said call them and stop by. So we did, only my grandparents had forgotten to mention this to the Christensen's. Opps!! Anyways being the wonderfully nice people that they were, they invited us to stay with them and fed us absolutely delicious food! They had however on inviting us to stay with them had mowed their backyard and my poor mother to this day despairs of all the grass we tracked into the house. So after our tent was up and the dinner was eaten, they phoned my grandparents to make sure we were who we said we were. This was the start of a long friendship that still goes on to this day.
From my album I'm guessing that this is our car at the Christensen's House but I'm not 100% sure. As you can see it was quite an art to packing it with all our camping gear.
Our tent set up in the Christensen's backyard. They lived on the water looking towards Sweden.
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Yes, the car is in front of their house.
Chris Christensen was a young man during the Second World War. He helped a lot of Jews escape from his parent's home, which is on "The Sound" between Denmark and Sweden. At night on the beaches in Sweden bonfires were kept burning so that rowers would know where to aim for a safe arrival. A lot of Chris's friends were killed and he could not talk about the War. We are still friends with his wife, Elsbeth.
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