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Winter! We love you!

Winter is coming

This winters first snow came yesterday, November 23. A bit early this year. It looks pretty, though.

Yet another sunset

An oldie, but a goodie - sunset over the railway, next to Carlsberg, in April 2009

The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid is on holiday in Shanghai. In the meantime you can see her live on a screen.

Fountain and church

The Gefion fountain in front of the English church (St. Albans Anglican church).
According to the myth, Gefion turned her sons into oxen’s and ploughed out the island of Sealand from Sweden.

Gefion fountain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gefion_Fountain
St. Albans: http://www.st-albans.dk/

Waterbus stop

One of the stops for the waterbusses

Funny sign

Sign on a road in Nordhavnen

New architecture

Concrete, steel, glass and copper - the new SEB headquarters in Copenhagen

Row your boat

This doesn't look like the city centre. But it is - the boats in Tivoli.

Night out

Night out in Copenhagen.

Shopping

Østerbrogade is good for shopping.

Halleluja

People at a canal tour reaching for the roof when sailing under one of the many bridges in the city.

Nice car

A nice car is always worth a photo.

Sunset

Sunset over Amalienborg and Marmorkirken

Ancher

Sunday in the park

Everyone can enjoy a sunny Sunday in Kongens Have (The King's Garden).

At the cemetery

A small part of one of Copenhagens largest cemeterys - Vestre Kirkegaard

Sunset

Late evening in July in Copenhagen

Chill out

People chill out in the park next to the National Gallery.

Morning in the habour

Another picture of the habour a quiet morning.

Summer in Tivoli

Locals and tourists are enjoying the summer in Tivoli these days.

Orange Stage

Orange Stage at night - without any audience.

Roskilde Festival

Copenhagen Eye has moved to Roskilde for at while. Roskilde is located about 30 km west of Copenhagen.

This week Roskilde is hosting the biggest music festival in nothern europe. 75.000 guests, 25.000 volunteers, and 10.000 from the media etc. All in all more than 110.000 people.

Today the campingsite opened, and thousands of people sat up their tents and a good party is started. The next four days is warm up , and on thursday the music begins.

Midsummer eve

On june 23 the Danes celebrate midsummer eve (Sankt Hans aften), by burning a bonfire and sending a witch to Bloksbjerg in Germany.

Birthday

Happy Birthday to Hans and Henrik

Balloon boy

A balloon boy handing out flyers.

Streetlights

Long summerevenings - picture taken today at 22.45

Warming up

People warming up before this year's Alt for Damerne Kvindeløb (Women's run). 19.000 women are running 5 or 10 km this week. Looks like someone is having a good time.

Nature in the city

Just outside the city, you step into another world. 2000 ha of dammed land. It was dammed during WW2 and used by the military up til 1984. Nowhere else in Europe you will be able to find natural areas of this size, so close to the big city, and with the metro going right to the "door".

Clean city - nice city

'Clean city - nice city' it says on the sticker.

A day in the zoo

Polarbear playing in the zoo

It's green

Everything is so green in June - especially since it has been raining for days now.

Pancakes

A small pancake salesstand.

The legendary bakery

This small bakery in Skt. Peders Stræde has a special atmosphere about it. It is right in the middle of the city - with heaps of students hanging out in the surrounding streets. And is has Copenhagen's best tebirkes (a bread roll with melted butter and sugar in the middle). It is the pieces that can be seen in the foreground of the photo. I love them!

Gate

People on their way to work or school (or something else) passing by a tunnel-like gate.

Habour in the morning

A view over the habour, seen from Bryggebroen.

Rubbish

Bike rubbish.

Kiosk

A small kiosk at Nordhavnen

Joe & the Juice

Joe & the Juice Bar has some great sandwiches and smoothies - and peppers as well it seems.

Avenue

Long avenue of trees in Valbyparken

Summer is back

How wonderful is this? Copenhagen is really at its best these days.

Lush

Kongens Have (The Kings Garden) is so lush these days.

New apartments

Copenhagen going dutch, with housings by the canal.

Rainy day

It is a rainy day in May today.

Pillars of the earth

One of my favourites is pillars and the shadows they cast

A view in the mirror

A mirror.

Spring

Flowers in the spring

Optimism

There is always light at the end of the tunnel.

Lost & found

Maybe someone lost their favourity jersey at the busstup. But then again - it is quite red though.

Marathon

Yesterday 9.107 women and men suffered throughout 42,195 km in the streets of Copenhagen.