London, hellish — always moist, raining and cloudy. You cannot distinguish whether it is night or day. Now I was in London. When I was, I think, last year, in this time, December, the morning was at ten o’clock, and the evening was at three o’clock. Five hours day. And nineteen hours night. So of course, I was rising, as usual, early in the morning. So I wanted to go out. So I couldn’t go out before half-past nine to the Regent Park. And it was full of snow and ice, and it is very difficult to walk.

From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.6 — November 6, 1970, Bombay