A castle and a palace

After leaving the Kastellet fortress in the rain, I came across this monochrome 7-Eleven.

I had heard before of 7-Eleven outlets without their signature colours, but I couldn’t remember what it was about. Later I checked online and found that muted colours were used in areas where they did not want to spoil the beauty of nature by the glaring colours on their logo. And also in heritage areas…which may be the case here?

After that, I reached The King's Garden (Kongens Have), which I had passed earlier but did not enter. This time I entered it (from another entrance, if I remember correctly…it was like a park with a few entrances).

same avenue, difference angle

At this point, there were only raindrops, which is why some people were strolling about.

Rosenborg Castle, in the garden (or should I say, the garden belonged to the castle?)

After that, I got something to eat and went to the hostel to check in.

That evening, I went out again, taking a different road. I went to the train station to check on tickets to Malmö the following day, then went out of the train station by a side exit to discover new roads.

I don't know what this building is, but it looks special :P

After that I reached the Christiansborg Palace.

an interesting mirror-like pool. It didn't look deep, but I didn't check :P

this photo was taken two days later when I passed the palace again. I didn't notice it at the time, but the stacks of wood had disappeared...

beyond that pool (on the right), there was a doorway into this courtyard

I didn’t time my visit for this, but as I entered the courtyard, I saw that something was going on. There was a band playing, and so I stopped to take a look.

After a while, a formal-looking car drove in from the far side of the courtyard and into the doorway beside the band. It took a while after that for the band to disperse and go inside.

By the time I finished watching the band, the sky was even darker...this is outside the courtyard (exiting from the left of the previous photo)

see the horse statue?

that's where I walked out of (unless I remember wrongly :P )

trying to get a photo of the whole castle, but it was just too dark... (that's the same horse statue)

somewhere opposite the road (but further away). The direction matters for the lighting when the sun is setting...this photo was taken after the one of the castle, but it's so bright because it was facing another direction!
Edit: The building at the back on the right is the Børsen ("the bourse") aka the stock exchange building. I didn't know it when I was there...and didn't find out until tragedy struck it.

 

After that I took a stroll along some small roads in the night time. But that will be for the next post!