First Snow of 2007

The first snow has fallen in Belgrade! Quite unexpectedly as well. I had some friends over to the flat for drinks and then  went off to xLagoom for some progressive house clubbing. Everything looked normal, a bit of light rain and an icy chill, which enticed us to take a taxi to the club. A few hours later, numerous beers gulped down and knackered from dancing like maniacs it was time to leave. We exit the club into what felt like a blizzard! SNOW! Everything white; everything nice in our inebriated states. Well, not so nice for one member of our group who managed to narrowly dodge a rather huge tree branch snapping off due to the weight of the snow.

I love snow. I don’t generally like being cold at all, but if there’s snow, it seems to cancel out all the negativity associated with freezing to your bones. I also love Belgrade under that white layer of snow. It looks a lot prettier during winter if there’s snow to cover up all the grey and dirt, rather than when it’s just a very cold and rainy winter’s day. Snow always seems to bring out the inner child in me (not that I generally need an excuse for that!).

Unfortunately, it’s raining and all the snow has turned into that awful thing called slush, full of mud and dirt, which just returns the city to a grey, wet and slippery mess. Not nice with a monster hangover!

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