A couple of inches of snow

Last day in Warsaw and woke to snow. And I answered my own earlier question - it stops raining before it snows. I suppose it just gets cold enough to freeze the rain and then when the cloud gets heavy enough, down it comes in great big white flakes. New question - do the flakes get bigger the colder it gets? They seem to...

Snow brewing yesterday

First flakes in the hostel courtyard this morning

The storm starts to cover everything, blown in on strong winds

From my warm spot in the bar, the snow covers roofs, sticks to bus stop signs and fills hanging baskets

You can see I am fascinated by this snow stuff. Not so much now, after a day of -1c and learning it melts on everything and turns to dirty slush in the streets, cold wetness on your clothes and soaks through every layer. Ok when it stays firm and can be brushed off. But wet is wet and you have to dry out. Now I understand why they heat everything so much. At least you can warm through to the core and when you go back out it takes longer for the cold to seep in. Thank goodness for thermal under trousers and shirts :)

The day became one of hiding after trying to visit the Chopin Museum and finding it closed; losing confidence in wading through snow covering the Park Ujazdowskie to visit the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Ujazdow Castle. Did manage to visit the Enthnographic Museum but was rather disappointed as most of their exhibits were of clothing and domestic wears of other European countries and even Australian and African displays. Again, their 30,000 piece Polish collection was distroyed during WWII and what they have managed to collect since is very small.

Ujazdowskie Park before the snow - it was deep and slippery today

Have picked up a wog from my roomies in London - 3 Kiwi girls with filthy colds. I had a feeling 4 days to brew and wha-la! However, bought the equivalent of Sudafed at the chemist with a whopping 120mg of Sudoephidrene (spelling?). They haven't a illicit drug manufacturing culture here obviously....

Also picked up a Polish novel today - 900 odd pages - not sure if it's the translation that makes them huge or whether it is the literary culture. The Russians seem to write epics too... Will get a start in the train to Krakow tomorrow. Snowing there too at present, but the snow seems to becoming rain - whether that is a sign of clearing?...