Freezing February

February has bought a cold snap to Europe and its freezing!  -30 at night and -15 during the day.  We have been checking the news and see that Britain is also shivering.  The Italian capital Rome saw its heaviest snowfall in more than 25 years. Some canals in Venice had frozen over. The Netherlands marked temperatures of -21.8C in the town of Lelystad, the lowest recorded in the country for 27 years. And London's Heathrow cancelled 30% of flights before a snowflake had even fallen from the sky!

We rugged up with extra thermals before venturing out sliding.  Holey moley - nose, toes and fingers seemed to suffer the worst.  It wasn't long till we had to pull in for a hot choccy stop to regain the feeling in our sticky out bits.  Even the hairs in our nostrils has frozen.  My beard was doing a good job of keeping me warm, even if I did look like Scot of the antarctic.

The sun was making conditions slightly more tolerable, but as soon as you were in the shade the temperatures dropped. Later in the day and the cold crept back into everyone and everything. If you touch anything metal with bare skin you will probably stick to it!