Koldinghus

I lørdags, da jeg skulle hjem fra Kolding, havde jeg købt billet til et tog senere end de andres. Så jeg havde pludselig en time i Kolding. Det var jo hyggeligt!
Jeg endte med at gå en smut igennem Koldinghus. Har aldrig været der, og det er virkelig længe siden jeg har været på museum.

This Saturday, when I was going home from Kolding, I bought a train ticket for a later train than everyone else's train. So suddenly, I had an extra, nice hour in Kolding.
I ended up visiting "Koldinghus". I've never been there, and it is really a long time since I went to a museum last time. 

Slottet er fint, og fra gårdspladsen virker det virkelig overskueligt. Man skal jo stort set bare gå op og ned ad trappen i tårnet og så kigge på de forskellige etager.
(Det holdt så lige til jeg skulle skynde mig for at nå toget og IKKE kunne finde en udgang!)

The castle is really nice, and it seems not too big when standing in the courtyard. All I had to do was go up and down the stairs in the tower and look at the different floors.
(Which worked well until I had to hurry to catch the train and COULDN'T find an exit!)

Det første sted jeg ville se, var fangekælderen. Hvor tit kommer man ned i sådan en? Det så jo ret skummelt ud, men nede i kælderen var der så ikke så slemt.
Faktisk var det åbenbart dér, de havde svenskerne siddende, så jeg kunne vel føle mig halvt hjemme. Eller noget.

The first thing I wanted to see, were the dungeons. How often do you get to see such? It looked really spooky, but once I was down there, it wasn't too bad.
Actually, this was the very place they kept the Swedish prisoners, so I suppose I might just as well feel a bit at home......

I riddersalen hang der et billede af Christian d. 4. MIN Christian d. 4.! Som de åbenbart også syntes var deres, eftersom han havde været der meget som barn.
Det var helt FORKERT! Når man har gået i skole i Hillerød og hørt alle historierne om ham, så får man et specielt forhold til lige præcis den her konge, og så har han åbenbart også været i Jylland? Jeg er skuffet......

In the knight's hall, there was a picture of Christian the 4th. MY Christian the 4th! That they apparently thought were their king, since he spend some time there as a kid.
It felt so WRONG! Going to school in Hillerød, listening to all the stories about him, you get a really special relationship to this very king, and suddenly it seems like he went to Jutland as well? I'm so disappointed........

Oppe på tårnet var der en fin udsigt over byen, som denne statue stod og nød.

On top of the tower, there was a nice view of town, and this statue really seemed to enjoy it.

Der var også mere civiliserede rum end fangekælderen. F.eks. dette fine rum med et lille bibliotek. Det kunne være fedt! Jeg behøver måske lidt højere til loftet, men både bornholmerur og bøger har jeg allerede!
Jeg nåede ikke at se det hele på knapt 1 time, men det ville nu ikke genere mig at komme tilbage. (Og jeg nåede iøvrigt toget.....)

There were some more civilized rooms than the dungeons. For instance this pretty room with a nice little library. Could be cool! Maybe I need a taller room, but the clock and the books are already here with me and ready to start!
I didn't have time to see everything in slightly less than 1 hour, but it wouldn't bother me to come back. (And I did catch my train, by the way......)