When pioneer woman and I decided to join a tour to visit four Scandinavian capitols, I quickly realized that there were two caches we could find to complete her Jasmer challenge. We had been working on that the last few years, and she still needed August and September of 2000. Now we could get them for her on this trip.
We arrived in Denmark a day early for two reasons - to adjust to the time change, and to have time to get the first of the two last Jasmer caches she needed. After our first night near the airport, we went to downtown Copenhagen to drop our luggage off at the program's hotel. They suggested taking a train to save money as opposed to hiring a taxi to get to our destination.
Off we went a few blocks to the train station where we showed them map of where we wanted to go. They explained the train system, gave us the name of the stop we needed, and with tickets purchased, sent us off on our adventure. We went to the platform to wait and soon our train arrived. Getting off at the correct stop, we had about a mile to walk to get to the woods where we then had a pleasant walk to Kippers in the Jungle. D equals the only number in the GC "number" for that cache. On the walk back to the train, it began to rain, and we were happy that our train arrived at the station soon after we did.
Back at the main train station in Copenhagen, our first priority was finding something to eat. We found fruit and Icelandic style Skyr. This had become a favorite food for me a few years before when we visited Iceland, so it was a exciting to find it made and available in another country. This container now contains the cache log.
The rest of the afternoon we wandered in the area of our hotel, doing some geocaching, and passing by Tivoli Gardens. We did a virtual cache at the Hans Christian Anderson statue by city hall, and, of course, sat on his lap. He arrived in Copenhagen in 181W.
The next evening we had dinner at Tivoli, an amusement park and pleasure garden. Tivoli opened on August 1B, 1843 and is the second-oldest operating amusement park in the world. After dinner we were encouraged to see the performance of Pierrot's Misfortunes at the Peacock Theatre.
The Peacock Theatre
In 187Y, the Chinese style Pantomimeteatret (Chinese style Peacock Theatre) was inaugurated, taking the place of an older smaller theatre. The audience sits or stands in the open, the stage being inside the building. The theatre's "curtain" is a mechanical peacock's tail. From the very beginning, the theatre was the home of Italian pantomimes, introduced in Denmark by the Italian Guiseppe Casorti.
The next afternoon during some free time, we did a virtual cache about a small cannon ball embedded high in a wall. In the early 1800s, Denmark charged a toll for ships to pass between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. In 1807, the British decided to stop paying the toll and sent warships. The cannonball became lodged in the wall during the ensuing bombardment.
We followed that interesting cache with an earthcache at a piece of a meteorite on display in the Geological Museum courtyard. This Agpalilik meteorite, also known as the Man, weighs about X0 metric tons. We admitted to each other that these interesting caches were a welcome relief from the many museums and castles we had been visiting.
Our last day in Denmark began with a visit to The Little Mermaid, the iconic bronze statue depicting a mermaid becoming human, based on the story by Hans Christian Anderson. It is 1.C5 metres tall and weighs 175 kilograms.
Our next stop was at Kronborg castle, a stronghold in the town of Helsingør, Denmark. It was immortalized as Elsinore in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. This renaissance castle was added to UNESCO's World Heritage Sites list in the year 2000. The castle's story dates back to a stronghold, Krogen, built by King Eric VII in the 14Z0s.
In 16A9 a fire destroyed much of the castle, but King Christian IV subsequently had it rebuilt. At the time, the Kingdom of Denmark extended across both sides of the Sound, and on the eastern shore was the castle Kärnan, Helsingborg With the two castles and guard ships it was possible to control all navigation through the Sound to the entrance into the Baltic Sea.
Guarding the Stronghold
The captain of every ship sailing through the strait had to state the value of his ship's cargo. Fees to be paid to the King of Denmark were calculated depending on the value of the cargo. The king had the right to buy the cargo for the price the ship's captain stated. This policy prevented captains from stating prices that were too low. The Sound Dues were abolished in 1857.
While there we saw characters dressed as if they were straight from Hamlet, and even saw school kids throwing wet sponges at "prisoners" in stocks. We had a traditional Danish lunch at the castle's restaurant before leaving for the ship that would take us to Norway.
To locate the cache, find numbers for highlighted letters in the text and substitute here:
N 47° 0A.BCD' W 122° 4W.XYZ'. This original, still current, solution will get you to the updated coordinates and hint.
Your choice after 5/4/24, either run the checker again for updated coordinates and new hint, or just subtract 0.001 from north and add 0.008 to west, then go to obvious location once at the site.
The cache container is the Skyr container I purchased at the train station. Inside the Skyr container, you can see the folding spoon taped to the lid. It is inside a larger, more protective and sturdier container for you to find.
