I was on a work trip in awfully cold Prague. I mean awfully cold, it was like minus five Celsius! I know I sound ridiculous, minus five is like nothing compared to the minus 25 it was in Finland only one week ago. But it was humid, really humid. I have never felt colder, the minute I walked outside I got cold shivers, like the cold came from inside of me. And I had a down jacket, long johns and wool socks. In Finland I could have stood outside in that gear doing nothing for a whole hour and yet not feel too cold. Ofcourse I got a horrible cough.
I had few evenings of time looking at the sights in Prague and also some time on Friday on day time. Prague is beautiful on the winter time too, but last time I was there on summer and I must say the city was more pleasant at that time. I would think that on spring and early fall the city would too be at it's best. Prague on the winter time looks a lot like the Hogsmeade village from Harry Potter. Perhaps I've read the Harry Potter's way too many times...
Welcome home! It is -28 Celcius here today--and I know exactly what you mean. Humiditymakes everything worse. We have a saying here: It's not the heat, it's the humidity. You could say, It's not the cold, it's the humidity, too!
ReplyDeleteWow, that is crisp. We've had plus degrees again and it's dull.
DeleteI have never been to Prague but I heard it is beautiful and you can see that from your photos too. I think it's funny that Prague in winter reminded you of Hogsmeade, maybe you could've warmed up with a butterbeer ;) Humidity and cold never work well together, it always creeps up in every fiber of your body and then it's hard to warm up again.
ReplyDeleteUmmmm.... butterbeer :) I wish they had had it.
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