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Old 03-24-2010, 11:58 AM   #161 (permalink)
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If I ever take a trip to Scotland I'll be sure that you'll treat me.
I wouldn't waste time buying you those, I'd fling you right into the deep end with a munchie box.
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Old 03-25-2010, 12:03 AM   #162 (permalink)
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I wouldn't waste time buying you those, I'd fling you right into the deep end with a munchie box.
Whazzah a munchie box? It sounds like a stoner's snack of choice.
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Old 03-25-2010, 09:00 AM   #163 (permalink)
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GOOD GUESS!! all the pics on google are ****e, you'll just have to wait this one out...
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Old 03-25-2010, 03:00 PM   #164 (permalink)
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Hi there,

Grew up in Lancashire, lived on the west coast of Scotland for 9 years and I have now been living here in Georgia for 10 years.

I guess if I wasn't British, I'd be a foreigner here. This place is full of them, mainly Americans of one type or another, ha, ha...

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Old 04-17-2010, 06:22 PM   #165 (permalink)
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I have a question for Europe and the United Kingdom.

If I visit in the middle of winter, will I die? I'm from Australia and I hadn't ever seen snow until I went to NZ as an adult. I like the cold but I've never experienced any temperatures below 0. But I'm planning on traveling there in my summer holidays (my summer = your winter).

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Old 04-17-2010, 06:23 PM   #166 (permalink)
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The UK doesn't often get below 0 during the day, maybe Scotland, but I assume you'd be visiting the better half of the UK
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Old 04-17-2010, 06:27 PM   #167 (permalink)
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I have family in Victoria. An Aunt and an Uncle who are English and 2 cousins who are Aussie born and raised. Both the cousins have been here in our winter and yes, they feel the cold much more than I do but they do just fine.

Be prepared for a serious climate change and id make sure to bring lots of warm clothes with you as you wont be used to it but its not like you wont be able to handle it. Its not THAT cold.
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Old 04-17-2010, 06:48 PM   #168 (permalink)
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I have a question for Europe and the United Kingdom.

If I visit in the middle of winter, will I die? I'm from Australia and I hadn't ever seen snow until I went to NZ as an adult. I like the cold but I've never experienced any temperatures below 0. But I'm planning on traveling there in my summer holidays (my summer = your winter).

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Thank goodness you're just going to Europe and not coming here during the winter!
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Old 04-18-2010, 03:39 AM   #169 (permalink)
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I have a question for Europe and the United Kingdom.

If I visit in the middle of winter, will I die? I'm from Australia and I hadn't ever seen snow until I went to NZ as an adult. I like the cold but I've never experienced any temperatures below 0. But I'm planning on traveling there in my summer holidays (my summer = your winter).

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I have a lot of experience with cold climates and, while I think acclimation is part of it, clothes are really the important thing. Unless you're on an arctic or antarctic expedition, the most important clothes I think aside from a hat, scarf and perhaps gloves or mitten is just underwear. With a pair of woolen undies, long-johns, a jumper and socks, under your jeans and T-Shirt, I'm sure you'll be able to take quite cold temperatures (f.ex down to -5 celcius) quite comfortably.

If I'm just out for a walk and not driving snow scooters or anything, aside from woolen undies, I don't really change the way I dress much until it gets below -10 ~ -15. If you don't think you're gonna experience anything colder than that, you could just get a set of woolen undies and that should be fine.

Wool keeps you warm even if it gets wet which is something many fabrics won't. That's important because when it's cold, it's actually easier to overdress than underdress, causing you to sweat which makes some fabrics lose their insulating properties so you get cold not long after. Most students I've known in the arctic spent more time sweating than they did shivering. A tip for the really cold temperatures is you dress in layers that you can take off and put in your backpack if you get warm, but I doubt you'll see someplace that cold .. unless you'd like to travel to Svalbard which of course I can warmly recommend.
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Old 04-18-2010, 06:53 AM   #170 (permalink)
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I have a question for Europe and the United Kingdom.

If I visit in the middle of winter, will I die? I'm from Australia and I hadn't ever seen snow until I went to NZ as an adult. I like the cold but I've never experienced any temperatures below 0. But I'm planning on traveling there in my summer holidays (my summer = your winter).

Edit: Zero degrees celsius
My winter just there, was pretty cold. It wasn't bad though, just pack loads of warm clothes, and especially thick jumpers and socks. Don't want the tootsies falling off do we the coldest it got around here during winter was about -17/18 celsius but I doubt we will have a winter as cold as that again. You'll be fine. Like I said, warm socks is a must. Gloves too, a decent (long) wooly scarf, and a cool wooly hat!

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The UK doesn't often get below 0 during the day, maybe Scotland, but I assume you'd be visiting the better half of the UK
How very dare you insinuate such a thing?
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