Winter Moments

The chill remains. We are ready for spring but winter isn't quite finished with us yet.

Calm, Cold and Collected

Snowpenhagen Transport

I love the people with whom I share this city. Snowstorm rolling in, -5 C (-15 C with the windchill) and yet they [we] roll on in style.

Copenhagen Winter Fashion Bonus

This winter has been one long freezing snowfest with snowstorm after snowstorm rolling in over Copenhagen. Nevertheless, 80% of Copenhageners who cycle each day continue to do so through the winter. Granted, there are even fewer in weather like this, but there are still a few hundred thousand citizen cyclists out there going from A to B and on to C.

While our Nordic genes long hungrily for summer as they have done for millenia, we here at Cycle Chic prefer to be optimists wherever possible. One thing this grumpy winter weather has given us is a fanastic fashion insight into the wealth of accessorizing options out there on the streets. Hats and scarves and mittens and boots that may not otherwise see the light of day in a mild winter have been dug out of closets across the city. In the photo above we can see the classic Copenhagen scarves in action.

Digging them out is one thing, creating an ensemble is quite another. It's especially headwear that is enjoying a renaissance in the chill. This winter we've seen the fashion revival of the retro ski hat and a wave of Russian-inspired fur hats with flaps. Then there's the sequined flapper-style hats and that old evergreen, the beret. Lest we forget the hood.

Fur-cuffed gloves and funky, wooly mittens feature strongly in the city. The normally fashionable long boots of discerning fashionistas have been replaced in many cases by warm winter boots. Although this year's closed heels continue to spite the snow, as do the biker boots.

With eyes squinting into Arctic winds there is a feast for the fashion-hungry on the bike lanes of the Danish capital.

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Red and Green

Nothing like colour to spice up a winter urban landscape.

Hilltop

In the neverending snow a Copenhagener rolls past the Zoo atop Valby Hill.

In the Hood

Hood.

Hood.

Winter.

And, indeed, Classic Copenhagen. A mum heading to daycare to pick her kid; a man sipping a beer as he walks along (legal in most countries, of course) and a Copenhagen dad pushing a pram.

Bridges Heading North

Langebro/Long Bridge.

Knippelsbro/Knippels Bridge

Heading towards Dronning Louises bro/Queen Louise's Bridge

The Eyes Have It

Bundled up toasty warm.

Cyclist - Pedestrian Conflict in Copenhagen

They didn't even say hello to each other. Not a glance, not a nod, nothing.
Shocking.

Cycling Snowstorm Twosomes

Cycling twosomes. Some of them together, others not but merely existing in the time and space as another cyclist. Like in the Snow-Covered Overtaking photo above.

Two girlfriends heading north.

Two others pushing off.


A man waving goodbye to his friend. He turned left, she continued straight on. And then two cycling tempi on the right.


Two strangers sharing a pocket of time and space.

My Hood

In lieu of a warm fur hat, funky ski hat or a scarf around your head, a hood will do the trick in the snow.

In The Hood

My bike was flat the other morning so I had to take it for a walk down the hood to hand it over to the bike mechanic guy... This is what met me on the way. Little Blue Riding Hood and her cousin, Little White Riding Hood.