Farewell to Winter.

I hear many British quite often complain about the weather especially in Winter. I think, more than political parties' empty arguments, the weather is the true punching bag, or what Koreans call the drum of neighbours. However, I like the weather of Scotland more than any thing else.

It is true that the weather in winter is very often so windy and the wind is usually so bitter along with fluttering snow or rain that although the temperature itself does not drop as low as that of Korea, it feels as cold as I used to experience back home in Winter. However, such strong wind and frequent rain means that the air is really clean because it constantly moves to other places quickly and is washed by rain frequently.

For this reason, I really enjoyed the 'crisp' winter air and interestingly it was exactly owing to its typical weather that every British people complain about.  

Sadly, though, nowadays, as spring comes, it hasn't rained so much and the wind is very mild.

Many people love the bright sunshine now and go outside to find a place to lie on the grass.

I like, of course, such a bright weather as well, but I don't think the air feels as fresh as it was in Winter.

Now that the new season came, I think it's time to post some photos that I took during the last winter.

 

 

This is a hill near the Falkland palace in Fife, where I went with other international students and local people who live in St Andrews in March. Those small white things looking like worms are sheep. They rarely move and never run, so in a long distance they seem just white rocks or haystacks.

 

 

 

That day the wind was really fierce, almost a storm, and I had to walk against it or sometimes nearly walked in the air with its blow against my back.

 

 

 

However, I didn't walk up to the top. on the way up the hill, I chatted with a retired Scottish history teacher. He said he really liked walking outdoors. I didn't take any pictures of the palace because ... just I didn't want what all the others did, but it was impressive that all the volunteer guides in the palace were elderly people who looked like faithfully enjoying their roles.

 

 

 

 

This is a photo I took in Dundee in the morning of the day of solar eclipse. That morning I was, as usual, going to the bus stop to go to St Andrews. I could feel the world was a little bit different from what I saw everyday. It was a bit more dark but not a darkness that I could call as I see the night sky. 

 

 

This photo gives a complete different feeling from the above one but it also was taken just a few minutes after the above one at the bus stop. The sun light was slightly changing every moment at the time.

 

 

 

 

It's St Andrews in a long time since I posted it last time. This building and the grass shadowed by the library, in front of which I was taking this picture, is one of the most familiar scenes in the town. Every time I go to the history school building, St Katherine's lodge, I pass by the library gate and walk through the grass that is unfolded behind the school. In this picture, the window right to the blue door is the one of my postgraduate room.

 

 

 

 

This is another photo that I took near my school. It shows a small garden and a sundial, and the beach is seen far away.

 

 

 

Another photo taken just next to the place of the above photo.

 

 

 

 

The last photo of St Andrews. A white yacht is seen a long distance away. 

The sea of St Andrews certainly gives a different feeling to me from what the river Tay in Dundee presents.