Living all my life in a country where winter actually lasts more than 3 months. Where the snow can lie until mid-spring and the frost of -20 degrees is normal, I couldn’t even imagine how people live in other countries without snow for the New Year, without the opportunity to make a snow angel and a snowman, without knowing that with a bare hand and even more so tongue you can’t touch the metal in severe frost. I love winter and especially the snow and all the fun you can do with it. I associate it with childhood. I can’t imagine the New Year holidays apart from the snow. Having visited the southern country for the first time in winter, I realise that it can be so. The painting is my vision of warm Hurghada in winter.