The Sidetrip to Fakse...

This was, if I'm not mistaken, the train that took me out to this station up in Koge, a town to the north of Copenhagen, on my way to stay the night in Fakse.

I didn't really go to the sleepy little village of Fakse to sightsee, as I was desperate to find a hotel after my hotel in Copenhagen refused my reservation. I almost stayed in the autonomous community of Christiania (very nice people, by the way) on Saturday night, but instead I ended up staying there on Sunday night. On Saturday night, I ended up at a hotel here that I managed to reserve on the friendly Christianite's computer, THEN on Sunday I had to stay there.

I'm fairly certain that this is a church or former church, but I don't know the history of it at all.

As I was walking around looking for the train station to leave Fakse (it's actually quite a ways from the village center, and you need to take a bus to the station), I found this old World War II bunker. It took me a minute to figure out what it really was, but there it was.

I wasn't able to figure out whether this quarry was still in use, as it seemsed unlikely that they would let it fill with water, but on the other hand I still saw some trucks around. In any case, I loved the view out over it.

This is the train station that I ultimately had to take a bus to. Oddly, although the town where I stayed is called Fakse, spelled just like that, this station is called Faxe Ladeplads.

Here's a view out on the station platforms. The platforms at Faxe Ladeplads are very low by European standards, and for some bizarre reason my photos there got tinted magenta, requiring adjustment in Gimp before I posted them to Flickr.

This is one of the many ticket machine designs that I've seen in Europe, with this one having a map to indicate where each station is. If you want such and such a station, you obviously pick your fare by clicking on the appropriate station button. Regrettably, I noticed that a line seemed to have been abandoned since this machine was installed.

I thought the ticket machine might look good in black and white, so here's my take on it.