Frozen Danube

The winter has well and truly arrived here now - still no snow since Christmas to speak of although the odd flurry from time to time but nothing settling but the incredible thing is the fact that the Danube is starting to freeze over - with sheets of ice floating down and then collecting round some of the slower points - the noise is pretty impressive too although I haven't been able to capture it well enough to do it justice. The way the ice is collecting around the pontoons and boats makes it look like piles of glass that have been thrown out of a building site and there is a lso the strange spectre of seagulls and ducks standing on the ice looking to all the world like the capatin and watch crew of some strange freighter