It is a cavernous edifice, with something like 20 tracks under the roof, a separate bus station across the street and tracks for the metro (U-Bahn) and S-Bahn trains alongside.
We headed north for about an hour and crossed the Kiel Canal. This man-made waterway cut a great deal of time off shipping routes coming out of the Baltic. The railroad bridge goes way up in the air to clear the shipping lane, and it continues elevated for quite some time.
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| to the west of the bridge |
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| traffic moving to the east of the bridge |
Right after the bridge we got to the port of Rendburg.
We crossed into Denmark, and the train was boarded by the Immigration police and soldiers. A Danish woman, who lives in this town, said the actions are routine -- trying to keep the Muslim immigrants from Germany from sneaking into Denmark.
Then we stopped, right alongside some flooded fields. It turned out we were waiting for southbound traffic. As a result of these two extra stops, we were going to miss our connecting train to Copenhagen. They told everyone to stay on board until Frederica and transfer there.
We did and got to Odense about an hour late. We dumped our bags at the hotel and rushed over to the Hans Christian Andersen museum, to find out they had just closed. (It seems they changed hours as of 1 October and now close at 4.) We wandered around downtown a bit, but soon got blown around by a rainstorm and headed back to the hotel.
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| cobbled street |
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| the guy at the museum told us to peer in the windows this was as close as we got |
We're off to Copenhagen tomorrow.
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