A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to London, United Kingdom by TravelPod blogger Lynntravel titled "Expelled from Eton" Lynntravel’s travel blog entry: "Well, the snow that was predicted for Christmas finally arrived. I'm told you've been getting tales in Oz about how horrific the weather is here, don't know why really because, despite dire predictions of 5" of snow and utter chaos in London (just for a new experience) the worst we've had (aside from that mini-tornado of course) has been a mere 1"- 2" of snow on a couple of days a week or so apart. Mind you I've since been told that it never snows heavily in London because it's too hot here! (from car exhaust apparently). 1"-2" was enough to transform the streets. The sleet is quite something else though! I don't fancy sleet at all. It's a kind of thawing ice sludging down on you in semi-solid droplets from the sky. And it stings when it hits you. I've never experienced sleet before and hope never to do so again - it's kinda like the Gollum of winter weather (there's something inherently revolting about it) as opposed to the snow which, while bloody cold, is very pretty, has romantic overtones (unless your toddling off to work in it) and beautifies everything it touches. Given my gullibility and the weatherman's confident predictions of snow, I kept waking up during the night and to peer out the window like a kid watching for Santa on Christmas Eve , to "see if it had happened yet" and was repeatedly ...