It’s snowing today in Amsterdam, following a very cold snap.
Just when I thought weather patterns might be returning to something resembling normal, the weather in the last week or so has been pretty extreme for here.
Of course extreme weather has been hitting most of Europe, among other things leaving 2000 passengers stranded overnight half way between the UK and France in the channel tunnel. Traffic choas is being reported all over Europe. Also in the news is a snowstorm hitting the US north east.
It looks much the same here. It’s not quite as cold as it was a couple of days ago, but I walked up the canal into town after church, and while the city centre itself has been cleared, everything on the way was a sheet of ice.
Yesterday, the saturday before Christmas, was the quietest Saturday I can remember in town. People just aren’t shopping this year.