The future of winter?

Here is another photo from our winter adventures in Eindhoven on Saturday.

We had a great time on the weekend, but one of the strange parts of heading off to the Winter Festival over the weekend was that it is not really that wintery in Europe right now. This story appeared on the front page of the International Herald Tribune on Saturday, describing the above average temperatures and lack of snow in the Alps. It increasingly seems the future will be about skating on artificial rinks, rather than along the frozen canals and lakes. Or maybe, just maybe, we might all get a great Christmas present, and our governments will start to take climate change seriously...