Rokskilde is a medieval city best known for its Viking heritage, so we decided to take a weekend off to venture over there. The train system is particularly weird, because it does not get proportionately expensive on the number of stops to your destination, rather the zone that you're in. Going to Copenhagen is more expensive than going to Rokskilde (for example) if the latter falls into a further zone. And this is something we should have researched on before we boarded the train. Since we had only 4 zone clip cards, and the journey to Rokskilde is 5 zones, we decided to 'cheat' a little by clipping at 2 stops from our boarding system, because they will determine the effective number of zones from the station which we clipped at. Unfortunately, the station that we clipped at was on a further zone, so we ended up paying more, running into the train conductor (which we played as dumb tourists to escape being fined) and spending a lot more time than we should. Guess we should've just paid the respective amount. haha.
But we sat on first class. We pretended we didn't know.
I wanted to go to the Viking Museum but my friends didn't want to because it was too expensive and it was small, and it's not going to have such a 'wahhh' effect, so I was pretty disappointed with this trip, but nevertheless I get to see a beautiful ghost city with shops closed on a Sunday.
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