This beautiful country is eking out the last drops of winter just for me. I shall show my gratitude by going for a walk around the lake on Sunday morning!
I am looking at the weekend weather in horror. Mostly because our cold snaps are 5C | 11C and right now, summer's ending and I'm complaining that nights are getting down to 16C (I mean, only for a few days. BY the weekend, we're back up at 30C-35C so summer's still hovering around. Just... not overnight.)
You know, I'd take -5 over +5 any day, and not just because cold weather makes me perversely happy – there's an insipid clamminess to the degrees just above freezing that goes right through you, whereas when the atmospheric moisture is frozen out the air is light and crisp and kisses your face without groping inside your coat.
That said, anything above 30 turns me to jelly, which eliminates a whole lot of the world for happy travelling ...
whereas when the atmospheric moisture is frozen out the air is light and crisp and kisses your face without groping inside your coat.
Whereas once it gets to that freezing cold for me -- anything below 5C, really -- the asthma plays up and I get short of breath and bones ache.
That said, anything above 30 turns me to jelly, which eliminates a whole lot of the world for happy travelling ...
But would also mean that you could do the whole off-season travel to some interesting places -- I know a friend who did London / Scotland and New York trips in their winter time and loved it, because she enjoys the cold -- she said the lack of tourists made a big difference. (Whereas I will always travel during tourist season because I like seeing things in 25C-33C weather, where I can walk about in a t-shirt and shorts.)
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Date: 2018-03-13 06:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-13 06:34 am (UTC)You know, I'd take -5 over +5 any day, and not just because cold weather makes me perversely happy – there's an insipid clamminess to the degrees just above freezing that goes right through you, whereas when the atmospheric moisture is frozen out the air is light and crisp and kisses your face without groping inside your coat.
That said, anything above 30 turns me to jelly, which eliminates a whole lot of the world for happy travelling ...
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Date: 2018-03-13 10:00 pm (UTC)Whereas once it gets to that freezing cold for me -- anything below 5C, really -- the asthma plays up and I get short of breath and bones ache.
That said, anything above 30 turns me to jelly, which eliminates a whole lot of the world for happy travelling ...
But would also mean that you could do the whole off-season travel to some interesting places -- I know a friend who did London / Scotland and New York trips in their winter time and loved it, because she enjoys the cold -- she said the lack of tourists made a big difference. (Whereas I will always travel during tourist season because I like seeing things in 25C-33C weather, where I can walk about in a t-shirt and shorts.)