Originally Posted by steviedeluxe (Post 8191156)

Commiserations to anyone who has to travel in the UK at the moment. Aparently a lot of councils (for various reasons, mainly financial) haven't done much gritting so roads and pavements have become skating rinks. There hasn't actually been that much snow (most airports have stayed opened or at the worst closed for a couple of hours) but it's been ground into ice in many places and made roads impassable. Perhaps more worrying is that in many places the footpaths are lethally slippery; I imagine the A&E departments are full to bursting at the moment. Good news is it's forecast to turn milder in the UK in a couple of days.:fingerscrossed:

Originally Posted by agoreira (Post 8193380)

Whilst the UK is considerably smaller than Spain, the weather can very from region to region, you cannot speak for the UK as a whole, or for all councils. Here we haven't seen a flake of snow, pavements have been gritted (again yesterday) and the weather hasn't stopped me from doing anything I normally do. Meanwhile, up in Scotland and on the east coast....:)

Originally Posted by Mitzyboy (Post 8193383)

In the UK, it's just too cold to even wander about

Originally Posted by agoreira (Post 8193380)

Whilst the UK is considerably smaller than Spain, the weather can vary from region to region, you cannot speak for the UK as a whole, or for all councils. Here we haven't seen a flake of snow, pavements have been gritted (again yesterday) and the weather hasn't stopped me from doing anything I normally do. Meanwhile, up in Scotland and on the east coast....:)

Originally Posted by steviedeluxe (Post 8193619)

The Beeb seem to have the worst areas affected here:

"Icy conditions cause travel chaos"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8427781.stm

Originally Posted by Mitzyboy (Post 8193383)

You know what I'm really missing at the moment. Being outside! In Spain even at this time of the year we are out and about more often than not and only a week before we left we were eating lunch on the patio. In the UK, it's just too cold to even wander about

Originally Posted by Mitzyboy (Post 8193383)

You know what I'm really missing at the moment. Being outside! In Spain even at this time of the year we are out and about more often than not and only a week before we left we were eating lunch on the patio. In the UK, it's just too cold to even wander about

Originally Posted by Mitzyboy (Post 8193383)

You know what I'm really missing at the moment. Being outside! In Spain even at this time of the year we are out and about more often than not and only a week before we left we were eating lunch on the patio. In the UK, it's just too cold to even wander about

Originally Posted by montgomail (Post 8193891)

I walked for three hours on Sunday through the fields here in the UK - the sun was bright and the sky was blue. It was about two degrees max. but once you get walking, it's fine.

Originally Posted by agoreira (Post 8193408)

Yes, but it's warm inside, tucked up in your double glazed, cavity wall insulated, centrally heated, carpeted little house!:) Reading this and other forums of Brits in Spain huddling around gas heaters, wood burners, burning bleedin' ground olive stones, my heart goes out to them! :rofl: Anyway, you're getting soft. it was 6º here yesterday and much the same today. Yesterday was lovely here walking in the sun, not at all cold.

Originally Posted by bil (Post 8194123)

That´s the thing about the UK weather that drove me mad. More sunny days in winter than summer.

Originally Posted by montgomail (Post 8194252)

I have to agree - the long spells of grey days seem to be more prevalent when you are expecting sun!

Originally Posted by bil (Post 8194456)

The joke is that the grey summer days were damn depressing, but the sunny ones were too, because I knew that the grey would be back very soon.