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Just when I had all my plans and packing sorted, I'm now in a bit of a tizzy. I got cancellation insurance, mainly because of the possibility of bad weather on the Canadian side but now it seems there's a few systems hovering over the UK though it does *look* to be ok for landing on Wednesday so that's fine. But the main issue is Friday when i'm meant to be meeting up with a group of people at noon and one website is saying they could get 10 - 15 cm of SNOW in Manchester on Friday! Mind you, other weather websites are saying various diferent forecasts from nothing at all to a couple of cm or snow with rain mixed. Sounds like our weather here! My main concern is if i should bring my boots. With a carry on bag, there's not a lot of extra room. If i bring them, i'll wear them and then i guess, see if i can squash my shoes into my carry on. I really don't like wearing boots and only wear them if i have to. If i wear them and don't bring shoes i'll have to wear them for the whole time i'm there and that will suck and my feet won't thank me for it. It would be better to bring them and not need them. My brain tells me this and my gut says noooo i hate boots! :)

And if there really is a lot of snow, not everyone will be able to make it to Manchester because the wimpy trains over there don't seem to be able to run if there's a few flakes of snow on the tracks. 13 tons of hot metal but no, trains get cancelled.

Typical.

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Could you buy an inexpensive pair of boots there if you need to and leave them there?

That just goes against my grain to buy something i'm never going to use again.

Bring them. Even if we only have 3cm of snow it won't be cleared and it'll be horrible underfoot. Never underestimate how rubbish the English are at dealing with snow!

True. I just hate wearing boots. I know that sounds odd from a Canadian, but here in Halifax, lately I can get through a lot of the winter without wearing them.

That's very telling about how you guys deal with severe weather and how we do. :)

I love boots, wear them until I absolutely have to switch to shoes because it's too warm.

I hate them because with my awkward feet, they're not really comfy to wear if i have to do much walking. If this was a longer visit and i had my large suitcase i'd have much more room to bring extra stuff like that.

An alternative is a pair of "YakTracks" which are coiled spring like things you attach to the bottoms of your shoes and they are great to grip snow and ice with. Kind of like putting snow chains on your car tires. Much lighter to pack too. I think if the shoe repair place here has them, i'm going that route as a "just in case" alternative.

Yeah, I've got Yak Trax, they're great. You're unlikely to need them here though. (I got them for Helsinki one year when they were having plus zero temperatures during the day and minus at night.) You're much more likely to have to deal with an inch of slush, which is why I recommend taking boots, or at least really sturdy shoes.