Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Frozen

In a walking tour in London three months ago, I was told that in winter Londoners used to ice-skate on River Thames. It was difficult to believe and imagine as the Thames is too wide and deep to be frozen.

The Thames is three times the width of Sungai Klang, which made the story even harder to buy.

London is now at its coldest winter snap with temperatures dipping below -10deg C.

When I passed by Trafalgar Square on Sunday, the fountains were frozen. It was rather unusual. Certainly something I thought would never happen because the fountains were wide and deep.


The frozen fountain

The functioning fountain

Now I can imagine Londoners ice-skating on the River Thames 150 years ago.

1 comment:

feifeipinky said...

Oh waoh! Frozen fountain! It sure be a very cold winter ya. Do wear enough to avoid sick. ;p CNY is just wks ahead.