Roskilde Tourist Traps

After walking around the Viking Ship Museum which was great and certainly not a tourist trap, I thought I would try the restaurant next door.

I sat down and ordered a club sandwich from the waitress. It arrived at my table about 4 minutes later. The sliced breast of chicken was dripping with fat and looked like it had just been deep fried.

It was extremely rubbery, had bits of what I guessed were burnt french fries clinging to it and when I cut into the sandwich, horror of horrors. the chicken breast was still red in the centre - YUK !! - It reminded me of that scene in the film Erasahead, where he cuts into a chicken at the dinner table and blood spurts everywhere.

I called the waitress back and politely complained. Without a word of apology she barked "Well, if you don't like it, you don't have to pay for it, do you."

I was sitting there quietly finishing off my drink, wondering how on earth an awful restaurant like this managed to survive, when 2 coachloads of American tourists arrived, ushered in by their smiling red-coated guide.

It was all I could do not to say something when the people on the table next to me looked at the menu and cheerfully ordered 4 club sandwiches.

I paid for my drink and left.

Unique Suggestions: Bring a packed lunch. Sit and eat it overlooking the beautiful harbour. There is nothing wrong with the Viking Ship Museum itself, in fact it is excellent !

Fun Alternatives: As you come out of the station and cross the square with the big vases, you reach a T-junction. This is the main walking / shopping street.

To get to the cathedral and the Viking Ship Museum you are meant to go to left.

Stop and do a quick detour to your right and walk for just 100 meters. On the right, there is an excellent cheap take-away smørrebrød / open sandwich shop that will make you up a lovely packed lunch in a pretty box, together with salt and pepper and some fairly good throw away cuttlery.

You can get a drink there too