the season has changed and we are rushing towards Christmas

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Last weekend the clocks changed; Broens Skøjtebane - the ice rink at the Christianshavn end of the Inner Harbour Bridge (top left) - opened on Friday; Christmas markets at Højbro Plads (top right) and on Kongens Nytorv have opened and, on Kongens Nytorv, the main department store of Magasin du Nord and the Hotel Angleterre now have their Christmas lights ….. suddenly we are in the rush down to the end of the year.

Skøjtebane, Strandgade 95, 1401 København K
opened on 3 November 2023 and
remains open through to 25 February 2024

 

Broens Skøjtebane / Bridge Street Iceskating

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On top of everything else, Coronavirus seems to have distorted time. Autumn seems to have come and gone with barely a trace because the ice skating rink at the south end of the inner harbour bridge - Broens Skøjtebane - has just been set up on the square between the warehouses and the canal where, until recently, people were sitting out to eat at the food market.

The city is quieter than you would expect at this time of year and many of the traditional events have been cancelled or scaled back so there will be no skating this year outside the gates to the park at Frederiksberg; there will be no Christmas markets at Højbro Plads and Kongens Nytorv; and the launch of the Tuborg Julebryg - the special Christmas Ale - so an important evening on the calendar and always on the first Friday in November - was cancelled for the first time since the tradition was established in 1981.

Broens Skøjtebane / Broens Ice Skating Rink