The first time we experience snow this season! Driving from Umeå to Piteå and Luleå in northern Sweden to visit friends. We went with a brand new ferry from Vasa (Finland) to Umeå in 3,5 hours. It's the world's most northern year round passenger ferry. It's dependent on icebreaker ships that break the ice before. This ferry is even the most environmentally friendly vessel in the world, because it's LNG-fuelled.
Thank you Sweden 🇸🇪 for not requiring any covid certificates at the border! And in addition we can pause the use of masks.
https://www.ship-technology.com/news/wasaline-aurora-botnia/

@tanjaostman I love the first snow!

@MaryMamuzich @tanjaostman i'd like to SEE snow

since moving to the south of the UK, snow is just a distant memory

we used to live in a place called Stiperstones (in Shropshire) (cool place, just up from a hamlet called "Snailbeach"; beautiful place where we saw the clouds BELOW the level of the mountain that our house looked on to

we moved in during a time when all the local 4 X 4s had given up trying - we were moving, and our 'friends' had given up on helping us - since it was snowing we had to move anyway and managed to get up in a transit van (a panel van?)

we were above 250 metres, and i'd always ignored that part of the weather forecasts - above 250 metres and snow is simply a normal part of life!

we're now virtually at sea level............