near the central station in winter

Several years ago, I was walking around the central station of Copenhagen city, looking for nothing particular, but just enjoying pieces of winter scenery of this northern harbor-city, after checking-in a business hotel near there. It was in the middle of the Christmas holidays, so, I hardly found shops, stores, even restaurants opened around the station, and as a consequence, people waiting for a train, coming from the station for passing the time, soon went back to platforms with empty hands. 

On the other, the historic amusement park, Tivoli Gardens, located literally next to the station, was opened and endlessly attracted families with little kids, even after dark and flakes of snow falling. While walking around the historical old town, its harbor, the main shopping streets and the solemn palace, I finally came to feel chilly and hungry, so, naturally looking for any cafes or restaurants, hopefully for having Danish local specialities. 

An hour later, I was in the restaurant, the Hard Rock Cafe, which was all I found in this city under cover of this snowy night, and I was warmly welcomed there by the cheerful Danish staffs. While waiting for my tender steak, I sipped beer from a glass, then, remembered that one of my colleagues at the time collected Hard Rock Cafe's T shirts printed local logos, when traveling around the US or foreign countries. 

Here was in the winter Denmark, still I saw snow flakes kept falling.

snow, silent, a sign board and frederiksborg slot

After getting off a train at Hillerød station, at first I saw a small station having white snow on its roof. It was in the morning on Sunday, at the middle of winter, and the sky in here was cloudy gray as usual, and a small bird flying enough high near the ceiling of the gray looked like a tiny black dot.
On the way to the bus stop, I had to take care of my steps on the powder snow, which had hardly been frozen tightly even under the freezing point. Its color was kind of a mixture of white and light brown.The bus for the famous Frederiksbourg palace had yet to come there, so I had to wait for a while. A middle-age woman and I were the only potential passengers for the bus at the time. On Sunday, few merchandises were open even in Copenhagen for not only tourists, but also even residents. So, under freezing point and with few shops open on street, I saw few people walking around the stop. Nicely silent and powder snow.


Taking a bus that would take only less than 10 min ride to the Palace, I found a relatively big shopping mall, which had a big sign board of "H&M", Hennes and Mauritz, one of tenants of that mall. Curiously enough, when I went back to my memoir of Frederiksbourg slot, at first, I happened to encounter the red sign of these two words that I saw at the time through the bus window, without thinking any, but maybe looking for a hot coffee somewhere around there or my destination, the palace.


Here was Frederiksborg slot, a beautiful palace in winter for me.