Let It Snow!
Even though it’s 3º Celsius (37ºF) in Istanbul right now, it is yet to snow. Bulgaria however, has had a lot of snow already. When I was there on holiday/anniversary celebration a few weeks ago, the lovely mountain town of Borovets which we were staying in went from green to white overnight. How did it look 24 hours before? Like below.
A Dutch expat in Istanbul, Hans, told me that I definitely do not want to see snow in Istanbul. I can imagine the traffic here transforming into a chaos of epic proportions. People are crazy drivers here.
How’s it over there? Snowy yet? Plan on travelling in the holiday season?
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Tags: Borovets, Bulgaria, holiday, Istanbul, mountain, snow, snowy, travel
December 10th, 2008 at 7:13 am
3 degrees celsius is terribly cold! I am glad we have warm weather here
December 10th, 2008 at 9:09 am
In the home country it’s snowing now and then, but the kind that melts away before it hits the ground.
I’m not betting on a #ffffff Christmas
December 10th, 2008 at 11:21 am
H Baz,
Quite disappointed that no snow yet in east Bulgaria. We are expecting some soon though.
There has been a white Christmas every year here for the last three years since living here. If we get it, surely you will to. Istanbul, without border control hold ups is only a couple of hours drive from Yambol.
December 10th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Bas, there will be less traffic since people prefer to satya at home when it snows..))
Traffic is not the mess, but the black waterly snow is a mess.
December 11th, 2008 at 4:33 am
I remember a cold December night, stepping out to Istanbul from Ataturk international airport, snowing beautifully, Prayer call echoing all around. That was just great, one of those fascinating scenes of my life that I can not forget. This is what the picture reminded me
December 11th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
It intrigues me how the snow gets to fill the place within a night. I’ve never experienced snow before, and these white frosty scenes are just mind-blowing.
December 12th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Great photos!
I would love it if we got a white Christmas here.
December 13th, 2008 at 3:01 am
Right now it’s extremely cold, but no snow since a few days ago … being right in Chicago town itself protects us from the worst of the snows, actually … those out in the western and northers suburbs got many inches of snow during the most recent storm system that passed through!
December 14th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Here in your country, Netherlands, I only saw snow two or three weeks ago but they stay for only an hour or two… You know very well that is is wet here… As usual, so windy in here.
I only know by now you are Dutch.. Ik ben in Den Haag nu. ^^ Im trying hard but I know nothing of Dutch yet, hopefully can enroll in language lesson by hanuary…
As for the comment you posted here, I know very well that even though the most wholesome of the blogs can also be deleted from EC, my reasons for being deleted were listed in here.
December 14th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
wow I wish we could have snow here in manila hehehe
December 14th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Thanks for the comments everyone!
I didn’t realize some of you never get snow, or might have never even seen or experienced snow. What a big world we live in!
@Niels: #ffffff very clever
@CCX: I can almost picture it
Sounds remarkable.
@WebbieGurl: you will learn, don’t worry. Plus, I think the Dutch government is very eager to get people to learn Dutch. There was actually a scandal that not enough people were taking the Dutch courses offered via regional institutes, which led to the loss of money.
January 9th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
yah you guys out there are lucky if i have the powers i will take out all your snow and put it in manila LOL just kidding!