February 4, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Last night the lowest temperature measured in this country was -22C. Those are temperatures when it really doesn't matter much anymore whether your numbers are in Centigrade or Fahrenheit (but in case you're wondering, it's -8F) and when you consider that the temperature of a freezer is -18C you could actually say that if you would keep your freezer outside and you would open the door, some heat would escape from the freezer, rather than get in. It was cold, is what I'm saying. Amsterdam was much warmer though, at -21C.
Typical for when it's this cold is that the sky is blue and the sun is shining, and today was no exception. The city looked beautiful! Ice on the canals. Snow in the streets. Gorgeous. Nevertheless I stayed in for most of the day, apart from when I had to do some shopping in the morning as well as getting rid of old glass and paper for recycling. It's just too comfy inside and I wasn't keen on too much of the cold air outside. Besides, one of the things I bought in the supermarket this morning was a bottle of wine and part of that bottle tasted mightily fine in the evening, with the radiators and thermostat in the house working overtime. The picture shows Oudezijds Voorburgwal in icy conditions.
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