Snow Again

So it’s the weekend before xmas and London is experiencing something that doesn’t normally occur here - snow. And snow in December is even rarer, so I’m told.

This time, I’m prepared - I have the mountain bike(mtb) now and with 2inch wide knobbly tyres instead of 23mm slick road tyres, life should be much easier to ride through it. I can confirm this to be true now as well.

We had a small bit of snow on the Thursday night which made life a little interesting for a few hours as it didn’t settle for long before melting. There was some left by saturday morning, which is what you can see in the pic above.

Then, on Monday afternoon, we watched from the windows at work as the next batch of snow “dumped” on London. Suitably equipped, (as you can see below), I headed home in it while the rest of the roads and trains ground to halt and chaos ensued (right).

With many stories of people taking up to 4 hours to get home, I cruised home in around 45 minutes and included a few stops to take pictures. As you can see, the sides of the roads were fairly clear as the buses were moving extremely slowly and the snow on the roads was just slush - much like the old icee’s from the deli, only not coloured red or blue.

Once home it was time to have some fun in our quieter snow covered streets. Like being back on our bmx’s as kids! Great fun!

And speaking of home, this is the view from home...