That sounds awesome. Would love to experience something like that. My wife wants Norway, Switzerland or Canada. She has had the experience of Tokyo. Closest to a winter Christmas I’ve ever had was in Tasmania. :joy:

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I live on the coast of California… the most we get is rain and a bit cold. I never saw snow until I was 13 and went to the mountains… so I totally understand…

It was 65F and sunny today.

It did snow here in 1984 once… my parents have video evidence of dirt with small patches of white… and a sad little dirty snowman my older brothers made. Lol…

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Yosemite field trip!
That’s where this one goes to get their wintery fix as the central coast does not provide.

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I didn’t experience snow until I was 23. Switzerland was part of a contiki trip I did. It was their summer. The most snow I’ve seen was in Boston, February 2015. Took a day trip from NYC. Loved it.

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:woozy_face:

I can not say how odd this sounds to me.

There is nothing more I love then winter season. I have grown up with snowy seasons. I can´t imagine to live in a place where temperatures are high all year long.

My best childhood memorie was spending time with my father in his garage, while he was building a little sled for my doll. He and me where sitting next to a fire and he was working and talking to me at the same time while I watched him building the sled. And when he was done he sat me on to my own sled and I dragged the doll sled behind me while he walked me up the whole hill so that we can sled down together.

Don´t get me wrong, I love summer too. But I just can´t imagine living in a place where its hot all year long.

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People think I’m weird because I use all my vacation around the holidays and hope for snow while I do nothing but video games… at home with snow outside is the best. Using vacation to go to sunny places makes no sense to me… sunny = heat = sweat. I may be weird, but it has nothing to do with relaxing on snowy days.

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Aren’t we all?

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However, if we stick to source material, and reduce an ancient society to simple annual rituals, it would seem a heroic festival to a great Triumph might come into popularity.

In Jewels of Gwahlur, our hero travels to Hyborian Age/Era Africa to find and pursue lost and found treasure. It would follow that a settled society under Conan would then pay tribute to this accomplishment with an annual feast and gift-giving of rare treasures. Perhaps the Festival of Gwahlur?

I really loved the Lost Souls event.

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Born and raised in Sydney, Australia. It doesn’t snow in many places of this country. It’s hot majority of the time here, especially for one with Lithuanian blood.

Christmas holidays are mostly spent at the beach here. I much prefer a cooler climate though.

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Born and raised in the southeast US, I also didn’t see snow until college and didn’t have my first (and only) white Christmas until about almost 3 years ago. Would love to experience that kind of season more though!

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Greetings fellow California coast citizen. I was around 16 when I first saw snow in the mountains. I remember it was so cold that I’ve never been in the snow again.

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There’s not such a place :rofl:. Biomes that hasn’t have snow have massive rains like the sky is raining buckets of water and extremely high humidity that’s piercing your bones.
My wife is from Kavala. It’s a beautiful amphitheater city on eastern Macedonia of Greece. I met her in “my” Island Rhodes. Rhodes is southeast of Greece, really close to Turkey. In winter time our worst temperature is 4 C°. Only on our mountain Atavyros we have 0 or - 1. Rhodes in winter has really strong winds that sometimes goes up to 12 bophor. The rains come heavily tropical and we suffer flooding a lot. So we have great humidity in winter time and when it’s bellow 6 C° it’s really cold.
So Angelika was always whining about being cold in winter time. After some years of relationship i decided to “move forward” and meet her parents in Kavala. It was Christmas time, i was 26 years old and never ever in my life since then had “white Christmas”. When we arrived at Kavala everything was white, except the sides of the road that the snow was black and the Temperature was - 21 C°. So in the age of 26 i had my first ever white Christmas. At the Christmas night me and Angelika went to a pub, about 300 m away from her house to have a drink. I wear double socks, double pants, everything double :rofl::rofl::rofl:. Angelika who was constantly feeling cold in Rhodes wear a Morgan mini skirt, calson and high hills. The only heavy on her clothing was the hoodie coat ending up to her high hills.
I look at her and i said “are you kidding me”???. In Rhodes you are always whining for cold and now that’s really cold you’ll go out like This.
Her response was, “it’s a beautiful night”.
Yea - 25 C° very beautiful :laughing:.
She was walking like a model in the catwalk and i was jumping up and down saying “are we there yet” like the donkey on Shrek :rofl::rofl::rofl:.
Not to mention that her village was close to a mountain and i saw a dog running away from us and she said that it wasn’t a dog but a lonely wolf who came in for chicken hunting :rofl:, omg she was so calm and i was WTF…
So i asked her, how is it possible not to feel cold here that’s really COLD and in Rhodes that the temperature is always higher that 0 C° you always whine for cold. The answer was, i cannot stand the humidity it’s piercing my bones.
And it’s true. The only difference that we have is that your cold can kill in a night, in snow you sleep and never wake up. In our temperature you may wake up with pneumonia in the morning but still alive. Yet you’ll suffer the whole night. I do remember this from my mandatory army exercises when i was 18.

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Seasonal events?
As long as they agree with the tradition of Conan’s peoples (I only know Conan by the 1984 film)
why not? But Denis and his colleague we have enough work like that without adding more pain. In addition, at my house winters is synonymous with freezing wind that makes you crazy (Rhone valley, southern France) no snow and fortunately, so I am happy as a pope when the spring comes.

Nothing like a good old white and snowy christmas, I love it, but once christmas is over and a new year has begun, I cannot wait for the snow to disappear and feel the spring coming :slight_smile:

Wait… What??
You can have -21C in December in Greece… :cold_face:
Living in northern part of Denmark in Scandinavia we very rarely see such low temperatures around christmas, it usually happens in the coldest part of winter, mid January to mid February :grin:

I think your wife didn’t tell you the whole truth, -21c is too damn cold for miniskirt etc. I think she was trying to impress you :grin:

There are also some factors that comes into play on how you actually feel the temperature, like wind chill and air humidity…
Usually small islands have more wind and can therefore feel a bit chilly especially in moderate temperatures and cloudy weather.

In Denmark we normally have 20-25c during the summer and first month of autumn, but there can also be smaller or bigger heatwaves with temperatures between 25 and 35c.
I know it doesn’t sound like much to what you normally experience during a summer, but if we get a heatwave, there is quite often no wind at all, not a cloud in sight + pretty high humitity, add those things together and you suffer really hard during such days, and it can definitely feel a lot hotter than same temperatures in the Mediterranean.
A few years ago we were on a vacation in Crete, the daily temperature was mostly around 30c ±5, but it was quite often a bit windy, not that we felt cold or anything, but defintely enough to not really feel overheated.
We often sat in the pool bar area at night drinking cocktails and playing Uno while listening to music, and even though the evening temperature was around 20-25c there was sometimes a bit of wind that made us feel chilly, so we often wore a long sleeved shirt/hoodie over our clothes to mitigate the slight wind chills :joy:

I am still amazed that you can have such low temperatures in Greece so early in the winter, but I guess it has something to do with cold coming from the Russian continent perhaps, a bit same as when we get weather coming from either north(Norway) or east(Russia) then temperatures can sometimes be as low as minus 20-25c and in extreme cases down to minus 30-35c, and if there is a blizzard or just strong winds… Then you stay in doors and only move out having covered the face except for eyes simply because inhaling ice crystals can be dangerous to your health :cold_face:

However usually our weather is mostly grey, wet, windy and a bit chilly during most of the year, so we really appreciate the few differences when it is cold and clear in winter or hot and sunny in summer because so much grey and dull weather really can affect your mood quite a bit, especially when it is the same day after day, week after week :joy:

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My father is from Kozani, eastern Macedonia of Greece, - 20 is breakfast :rofl::rofl::rofl:. People see beaches, sun and thinks Greece is warm, well we have mountains too brother and there’s exactly where the cold gets serious :wink:.
Greece morphology is really difficult, too many islands and too many mountains with villages of course. It’s not an easy country.

2003 i change year, new years eve, to 2004 in Copenhagen, Magazine square :wink:. I was married Angelika on October 2003 but we wanted for honey moon to go to Denmark and see some friends. We had to choose between Canary islands and Denmark. I was my whole life an islander, why should i want to visit another island? So no matter how odd this decision sounds, Denmark and snow was one way street for me.

True :wink:, but believe me she was so cool, so normal outside walking, i was literally jumping up and down from this fkin freezing.

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3 days ago we had the first snow of this year. Started with heavy winds and rain which turned into snow pretty fast. Next morning only the roofs where left white. Rest of the snow was melted. Last night temperatures dropped down a lot (around freezing point) and it started snowing again. Woke up today, looked out the window, snow everywhere.

First thing I did was brewing up some tea. I normally drink coffee all day long. Glad it was Sunday so I didn´t had to work. Had a long walk with my little fluffy. She looks so cute in her dog sweater. Didn´t went far from the house, since she started playing with the snow until she got cold. Then she lured me back to the house. She definetely know what she wants and knows how to get it. :hugs:

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It’s your mother filter sister, it’s in your bones written on your DNA code.
If it was me taking out my dog, after 2 minutes i would lure the dog back in, “ok bud, enough pi for now, let’s go back in”.

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