Over Easter, two of my good friends and I went to Roskilde for a couple of hours. Roskilde is an ancient city, dating from the Viking Age and is famous for its music festival held in summer.  It's west of Copenhagen and takes about 20min by train.  So Sebastian, Kreta and I wanted to see the place, but the main draw card for us was the Viking Ship Musuem.  Anyways... we met up at the central station and talked about our childhood pets, swimming pools and other random stuff on the way there.

 

Once we arrived, our first stop was to find the Roskilde Cathedral. It was the only cathedral in Zealand until the 20th century and was built in the 12th and 13th centuries, it was the first Gothic cathedral to be built of brick and its construction encouraged the spread of this style throughout northern Europe. The cathedral is the burial site for Danish kings and queens and since 1995 the cathedral has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But we didn't go in... heheh why? we found out that you had to pay to get in and as Seb said "I've seen 100+ churches".

 

So we then headed for the Viking Ship Museum by taking a stoll through a really nice park.. see the pictures. The permanent exhibition of the museum shows 5 Vikingships from the 11th century. The ships were excavated and preserved during the period 1962-1969. The exhibition also tells about the Viking period, shipbuilding, underwater archaeology etc. One part was where you could dress up as a Viking which Seb really loved, unfortunately I looked like his maid since he had the more "manly" stuff.  Anyways, there was also a Cinema showing a film about the Viking times and the excavation of the ships, we didn't want to wait for the English version so we just watched the pictures in the Danish version hehehe

 

We grabbed a quick bite to eat, then caught the bus back to the station to head home.  It was quite a nice day exploring a little town of Denmark.