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16 Jan 2009

frozen danube

It was hot today.

For the first time in weeks we were above freezing - a sensational two degrees Celsius above zero we had when I took this shot. The warm weather hasn't yet done any damage to the ice. But as you can see, Danube river wasn't really frozen over: yes, the river is covered with ice - and yes, there are some places where there's even a little bit more ice than here; but no, the river is not frozen over, and of course it would be extremely dangerous to walk on Danube ice even where it looks more solid than it does here.

Still, we hadn't ice like that in the last two winters - we hadn't any ice worth mentioning at all those two winters. So it's nice to have some again.