European Winter

[VladTepes]

With you unfortunate Europeans having a "riding season" it was very apt that, when reading Bram Stoker's "Dracula" I came acorss the following passage:

"Though we were in shelter, we could hear the rising wind, for it moaned and whistled through the rocks, and the branches of the trees crashed together as we swept along. It grew colder and colder still, and fine, powdery snow began to fall, so that soon we and all around us were covered with a white blanket. We knew 'twas time to garage the GSX for a few months hence...."

No, really, that's what it says !



Well, most of it is. 

[seth]

Dracula was written 8n the village I lived in for 17 years and then we moved away 4 miles for the next 12 years.
Right There on the coast where Bram Stoker wrote Dracula never really had bad winters I only missed 5 days work due to weather in almost 30 years .
But you go inland a few miles to like where @shanered6 lives it's a different story it can get quiet bad a few miles from the sea.
The pub in crudenbay has some hand written pages from the original drafts of Dracula.

[KiwiCol]

Well done Mick!

[T 24]

Yes... We North Europeans unfortunately have a "riding season".
Yesterday we had 0.5-0.6 meters of snow and -25°C. I hate winter.

[Tony Nitrous]

Is this a good time to point out I moved to Brisbane 15 years ago and haven't even seen a frost since?

40 years in the UK, the Summers had some beautiful days, but not enough and you wouldn't want to bank on booking one in advance!

[KiwiCol]

We just went from 33.5 to 11.5 degrees in a couple of hours!  Now got a chill factor of (feels like) 8!!  mad summer weather at the moment.

[shanered6]

Ye here in the Higlands of Scotland we have differant weather even to the rest of the UK and when you think that Aberdeen is nearly 200 miles further north than Moscow you can see why !

[Kiwifruit]

Heard on the news you in Scotland got -12c somewhere......toasty !! 

[Irish in Oz]

We got a little bit yesterday, but it will get better as we won't be in Europe much longer.

[seth]

Not the warmest day in Dundee but lovely 

[shanered6]

Heard on the news you in Scotland got -12c somewhere......toasty !!

Ye its bloody cold at the minute been hard frost for a couple of weeks now .

[KiwiCol]

@seth - cracker day there, might be a bit nippy, but it looks superb.

@shanered6 - hoar frost?  What is that last pic of? unopened frozen thistle head?

[seth]

It was lovely behind glass in the sun but very cold outside.
Frost in the shadows all day.
The funny thing is @shanered6 is only about 100 miles from here that's local in Scotland 

[shanered6]

@seth - cracker day there, might be a bit nippy, but it looks superb.

@shanered6 - hoar frost?  What is that last pic of? unopened frozen thistle head?

no a fence post .

[KiwiCol]

Ok, fair enough.  Must be just the angle of the pic then.