In the event the only snow we encountered was as we approached Dover, where a couple of inches had settled making an unusual sight of the famous white cliffs with matching white beach.
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Across the English Channel, only 22 miles or so away, there was bright sunshine when we arrived in Calais and so it continued. Apart from a small area of snowfall around Bruges, it was a clear, bright, if bitterly cold weekend in the parts of France and Belgium we travelled through.
Returning to Calais on Sunday evening, the town was covered with a thick layer of newly fallen snow, which made for a rather spectacular beach scene.
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Fortunately, back across the channel in Dover there was no sign of snow.
You missed one of the coldest rows I have ever experienced up the Hamble, with tea and cake on the beach as the Hamble River Rowers took Bembridge for a spin. The HBBR and DCA were on the river too.
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