Arcadia: Canaries, Nov 2010.

10.45pm, no buses were coming into the village and taxis could only manage to the foot of the hill two miles distant from the house. The snow was lying in mounds on both sides of the road and only a few foolhardy souls, in possession of four wheel drive vehicles were venturing out onto the roads. There was no option open to us other than to phone a friend with a four by four and petition him into taking us into Glasgow, where we would transfer to our pre booked coach to Southampton.

In Glasgow the temperature was -15 and the bus station had run out of all coffee and tea making facilities as on the previous night the station had had to provide overnight accommodation to a hundred or more stranded souls, as the city's transport system ground to a halt as a result of the worst snowfall in memory. Read more