Jack Frost decorates Sárospatak!

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A morning walk over the bridge transported me to fairy land. Where trees were painted most delicately, the waves seemingly froze before my eyes as the ice crept across the river Bodrog!

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Ducks and swans flock to the warmer shelter when temperature’s really drop… And here they are enjoying a few precious moments of sunshine

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in what is really, really bone chillingly cold and utterly magical!

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literally breathtakingly beautiful

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as frost decorates, highlights, from the basilica …

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… to the Reformed church high on the right bank

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and stretching away into the milky distance…

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