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Originally posted by Yorick:
I came up from equatorial Singapore to the New York winter. Freezing!! Snow, wind. Brrrrrrrr.
Pretty, but brrrrrrr.
Coldest I've ever been was Prague, Jan 5th, 1995, -15 Celsius. I was on my way home from Egypt, on a cheap flight with transfers at Prague - and a 9 hour wait in the airport. So the 4 of us booked a 'transit tour' of the centre of Prague, to while away the time. I had images of sitting in a heated minibus, driving round and seeing the sites - but no, they dropped us in the town centre and it was a walking tour. My camera shutter froze, and so did I. I was dressed for Egypt - thin cotton trousers, canvas shoes, no socks, cotton shirt, light sweater. I'm not kidding, I didn't even have a jacket. I was pulling dead, frostbitten skin off my legs for a week (yuk)....