More Snowy Adventures

We're still trapped in a cold spell of early winter here, and it seems likely to last a while.

From Wednesday afternoon until Thursday morning, quite a lot more snow fell, this time also combined with strong winds. On Wednesday I could just stay in, but I had a dilemma: Considering the snow situation, when to try and book my booster covid19 jab? ... as I'd have to get myself across town for that ...

I found a time slot for Thursday afternoon though, and kept my fingers crossed that by then main walkways would be ploughed and city buses running more or less on schedule...

Turned out the town's snow clearing efforts had not really stretched to pedestrian crossings and bus stop platforms yet... But I managed. (I had on boots with studded soles, and had also brought one of my Nordic walking poles, which was helpful in tricky places.)

Above is what it looked like at the bus platform at the travel centre, where city buses pass frequently and stop to let passengers on and off...

 

The bus was on time, though, and there was no queue at the Arena (vacc. centre) so I was allowed straight in when I arrived... Had to sit the 15 minutes in the waiting room after (and was careful to do so as I was given a different vaccine this time). But I still managed to catch an earlier bus back than I had counted on. (In spite of having to wade through unploughed snow to get to the bus stop.) From the travel centre I walked back home again.

The annoying electric scooters parked all over town are not likely to make it any easier for the service people to clear away the snow...

 

 

Walking straight towards the sunset on my way home...

I was pretty exhausted when I got home, but glad to have it over and done with. The only side-effect from the jab has been a bit of soreness around the injection spot.  Well - I also did feel kind of stiff all over when getting out of bed the next morning... but I think that was probably more to do with all the snow-walking than with the injection!!