高樓低廈,人潮起伏,
名爭利逐,千萬家悲歡離合。

閑雲偶過,新月初現,
燈耀海城,天地間留我孤獨。

舊史再提,故書重讀,
冷眼閑眺,關山未變寂寞!

念人老江湖,心碎家國,
百年瞬息,得失滄海一粟!

徐訏《新年偶感》

2012年2月6日星期一

Europe weathers the winter - in pictures


Europe battles near-Arctic temperatures and the heaviest snowfall for decades, with severe cold weather blanketing Turkey in the south-east to the UK in the north-west

People slide along the promenade past ice-covered cars and trees on the shores of Lake Geneva in Versoix, Switzerland
The Inn river near Bever in the Engadin valley in Grisons, Switzerland
Pedestrians shuffle through a snowstorm in Burgos, northern Spain
A skater passes windmills on a frozen waterway in Kinderdijk, The Netherlands
Revellers flock to Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, London, for some sledging
The frozen Tallinn Bay area in Tallinn, capital of Estonia
A near blizzard covers paths and parkland in Burgos, northern Spain
Birds descend on the partly frozen Elbe river in Dresden, Germany
A gladiatorial contest, of sorts, outside the snow-covered Colosseum in Rome
A water taxi sails along a part-frozen Canal of Cannaregio in Venice, Italy
Heavy snowfall forces an end to the Sarajevo city tram service in Bosnia
Workers clean the tracks outside the North Railway Station in Bucharest, Romania
A father tows his child on a sledge in Sarajevo, Bosnia
A dog bounds through the deep snow in Great Chart, Kent
A father and son enjoy the snow in Harrogate, Yorkshire, northern England
A unicyclist battles the conditions in a Budapest park, Hungary
A chicken tackles the snow in Vertou, western France
The frozen Prinsengracht canal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Pelicans huddle to keep warm in St James's Park in central London

A woman struggles to negotiate the snow en route to Ibaneta, Spain
The frozen Black Sea shoreline of the Constanta harbour in Romania
Snow-covered fields in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Snow-covered tree trunks in Bornholm, Denmark
Frost crystals pictured on a window in Zurich, Switzerland