The winter temperatures are usually between 10 and 16C, lower at night. Frosts are fairly rare though. That's up here in the warmer north; right down south, on the mountains, and of course at higher altitudes like the Desert Road, there is snow in winter. When it's in the southern cities though, which are mostly at sea level, it only lasts a day or so.

I used to live in Germany and I loved the winters there: snow, bare trees, blue skies: wonderful! It's just too often grey and wet and dreary here. At the moment it alternates between rain and sun throughout the day. It's a pity we don't have a fun festival to liven it up but there's nothing. Some people have winter solstice dinners, but it's not at all common.

The flowers are winter-blooming, and there aren't that many around. We're lucky to have several in our garden.

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