Winter has arrived

I went out to get some bread this morning. The air was cold, really cold. The last few weeks of unseasonally warm whether has ended. Winter has arrived. Soon, there will be snow and ice.

Indoors,though, everyone will be sweating. Czechs like their shops, flats and offices hot. Hot means that shop assistants are trotting around in t-shirts whereas you will be perspiring in your overcoat.

To keep buildings at that sort of temperature is expensive. There is a theory that Czechs got used to this under communism when Russians supplied them with subsidised gas. As a result a lot of energy is wasted.