Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
mussels in white wine or cockeral with ratatouille. Brunch is served from 9am to noon on
weekends and the attached kiosk peddles cooling ice cream.
Information
Tourist Office
TOURIST INFORMATION
(
www.visitnordsjaelland.com
;
Slotsgade 2;
10am-5pm Mon-Fri, to 2pm Sat & Sun Jul, 10am-4pm
Mon-Fri Jun & Aug, shorter hrs rest of yr)
Seasonal tourist bureau inside Hotel Fredensborg Store Kro, on the same street as Fredens-
borg Slot.
Getting There & Away
Fredensborg is midway between Hillerød (Dkr24, 10 minutes) and Helsingør (Dkr60, 25
minutes). Trains run about twice hourly.
NORTH COAST
Gorgeous white-sand beaches with shallow water and gentle waves line the northern Kat-
tegat coast. Although the scattered small towns and villages only have a few thousand res-
idents in winter, in summer the holiday homes fill and throngs of beachgoers, creating a
salubrious sunshine-and-ice-cream atmosphere.
Hornbæk
Pop 3500
'Denmark's St Tropez!', shout the tourist brochures. There are two similarities: Hornbæk's
Blue-Flag beach, a vast expanse of soft white sand, is just as beautiful as any you'll find in
southern France, and the patch certainly attracts more than its fair share of foxy young so-
cialites.
Danish artists first discovered the attractions of this little-known fishing village in the
19th century, with early tourists following hot on their heels. Thanks to some geographical
peculiarities, Hornbæk enjoys more sunshine than anywhere in Denmark.
