Friday, July 19, 2024

18 July 2024 Copenhagen: A Train Ride to Humlebaek and Back

 



To get to the Louisiana Art Museum we had to take a train.  The train we took was the RE train to Humlebaek.  This town is still considered to be in the Copenhagen metro area but was not in the zones that are passes are good for.   So we had to buy a ticket, that is after we found the right ticket kiosk.  It was a bit confusing as to which of the four tracks to go to and which train to board.  Once we found the right track and saw that the train was already there, we jumped on!  This only managed to get us yelled at by the staff.  We immediately jumped off.  The fact that there were no other passengers on the train should have been a giveaway.  We asked some locals and eventually got on the correct train.  It took is about a half hour to get up north and de-train.  I have included the pictures of the return trip to make the post complete.  I wish I had taken pictures of the line at the train ticket kiosk.  It was a long line of dissatisfied customers.   The patrons three folks ahead of us was blindingly slow, the people directly in front of us tried to get a ticket but couldn't and gave up.  We had to book a ticket for Copenhagen Central because our station was not offered.  People behind us were saying that the train was coming.  Then the train pulled up and the kiosk still had not spit out our tickets.  By the time the ticket was finished printing the train doors were closed and the train took off.  Luckily we had warm rhubarb pie to tide us over until the next train arrived.



A double decker train


Many quaint buildings along the tracks


Old station budlings now repurposed


This is an art gallery


Small towns 


Big fields


Official looking buildings


More farm land


This was a new art piece by Per Kirkbey


A bit of the Louisiana right at the train station


Our Station was big


The blackbirds were everywhere calling loudly


They were eating lunch


Building Egyptian pyramids


First everyone must go before we start our walk.  Maybe get some warm rhubarb pie


We are headed off to Louisiana


Rook to knights four


No end of flowers to walk past


Old thatched roof


Authentic old buildings


Over sized dandelion


A great gate on our walk


Fine fences


After the museum we returned to the station and off to Copenhagen


First we wait 15 minutes for the next train and we watch the swallows zoom about


and the other trains


Kids collecting cans for change


Now we are going


Seeing all the odd things


The old things


Probably an old station


Walkways parallel the tracks


Nice side of the building art


The S trains are all converging


Graffiti alcoves


A port building with the ship's exhaust showing behind  the building


More new development


White smoke stacks must be hard to see for flying things



It has been 2 years and 43 days since we began our Migration