TRAVEL
Aside from this gloom, maybe we will
get one day a year of snow, which results in
impassable roads, the cancellation of trains,
the closure of schools and workplaces - the
whole country grinds to a standstill. Don’t
get me wrong, there is something glorious
about this. Some of my greatest childhood
memories are of ‘snow days’, waking up
on a Tuesday morning and tuning into the
local radio station waiting for confirmation
that your school is closed. That all too
fleeting magic followed by the crippling
disappointment when by 3pm the light
covering of slushy snow is melting and the
dawning reality that it will be back to school
tomorrow. But when you consider the
same happens when the temperature even
threatens to rise above the critical +30 mark
– the roads and rails melt, the tube becomes
intolerable – it doesn’t seem that there is
much truth in that famous British wartime
slogan “keep calm and carry on”. “Panic and
stop” I think would be far more appr