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[emrinalexander]

So, if I want to stick Arthur in a modern snow bank and have him take shelter with Merlin in Merlin's cottage, during a conveniently heavy fall of snow with gale force winds, what time of year and what part of the UK would be a good spot to pick?

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[melissa_actress]

The Scottish Highlands, from what I understand.

[emrinalexander]

I love Scotland and have quite a few books about the highlands, plus Annie has actually been there, so this is a wonderful suggestion and one I'm going to use. Thank YOU!

[caarianna]

Given that Arthur and Merlin were to have lived in Devon, north Cornwall or South of England, I'd say it would have to be a bitter winter storm blowing off the Atlantic, with biting ice crystals that gather into drifts in the gullies or against the trees of small copses on the moor. Yes, it's unusual now but there's more snow blowing into the UK every year; and if you're doing it in the period of the original legend, those were very cold years because of the darkness resulting in the atmosphere after Icelandic volcanoes had blown ... which also caused years of famine across the UK and Europe.

[emrinalexander]

I remember reading about the extremely wintery conditions of the winter of 535 - 536. I want to do one story that's canon era and one that's modern, so this works.

[emrinalexander]

This works really well - Scotland - because I'm sending Arthur off in January escaping from Uther's overbearing business style, etc. It also works because being from the South he has no real concept of how fast a lot of snow can pile up, etc. (ski slopes don't count).

[ngaio]

Scottish Highlands for sure. And February.

[emrinalexander]

Scotland it is! (Also-I love your icon). Thank you!

[snailbones]

I'd go with Scottish Highlands and February-ish too. We do get snow further south, but not every year, and not often a lot. The only places you'd get a good lot of snow for sure would be places like the Yorkshire moors, Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor, the Welsh mountains etc., and you've be pushing your luck to find a secluded cottage in any of those places that wasn't a holiday home and worth a fortune!

[emrinalexander]

The Highlands it is - the more isolated the better :) and none of these luxury holiday places either.