The grey skies and blue haze has taken over Copenhagen. If the sun manages to push through in the afternoon, you barely feel any of its warmth. Getting up is a struggle and everyone has started to rug up with scarfs and beanies. When the sun starts to set, the light changes and creates a haze. Candles and warmth indoors are the only things that seem to cut through it, and so it begins. Not quite yet December, only the end of October, but a long way to go before it is summer again in Copenhagen - when people sit out and soak up what they missed during the darker months.

The Danish word "Hygge" - three men in a boat on a cold Sunday afternoon in late Autumn. The blue haze has moved in over Copenhagen, but still they push off from their harbour and sail on down the canal, drinking Tuborg with gloves on - can sometimes be translated to "cosy", although that doesn't quite fit the bill.

The path won't always be as sunny as we want it to be, but sometimes you gotta push through, knowing there's something nice waiting at the other end - and while you're at it, try to enjoy the ride anyway. Oh, and summer is coming. Copenhagen, summer is coming.

^ the last of the sunset on Saturday 31st October seen hanging over Christiansborg Palace.