Mel's Travel Blog :): Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow....

With my entire life's experience of snow having been everyone freaking out ''its snowing in Cape Town'' and the whole city jumping in their cars and driving 2 hours away to Ceres, where it had in fact only snowed on the very tips of the mountains and you couldn't get to with a car, I was rather excited to be in a country where it does in fact SNOW.

My first experience of snow was in 2009, about two weeks before I was meant to go to South Africa on a holiday. It had started snowing very heavily up north, to the point that they had closed some of the airports, and they were expecting it to hit London at any moment. The first bit of 'snow' we got, I did in fact freak out and think it was amazing, but it was actually only sleet!! Check out these pics

About a week later though, I came out of my tube station at work to find Leytonstone (the part of London where I lived) completely submerged in snow! Whilst all my housemates were huddled around the radiators, I put on my gloves and jacket to go build a snow man! I was sooooo excited!! Check these pics out :)

I was pretty lucky, as the week I was actually meant to fly to SA for holidays, most flights out of Heathrow were cancelled because of the snow. Mine was one of the first to take off on time, so that was really lucky!

In 2010, the snow started very early in the year and this time posed some issues in getting to work as I took an overground train to get to my job, not the tube. I was still very excited though and we even took all the children to the park to play in the snow, which was amazing!! Another day we took them snow sledging, and since they were little, we had to go in the sledge with them, no complaints here!! What a fantastic experience, snow sledging for the first time ever!!

I got quite emotional at the possibility of having an actual white Christmas, how lucky would I be!!

Here are some great shots of the 2010 snow.