Europe weathers the winter - in pictures

People slide along the promenade past ice-covered cars and trees on the shores of Lake Geneva in Versoix, Switzerland Photograph: Martial Trezzini/AP

The Inn river near Bever in the Engadin valley in Grisons, Switzerland Photograph: Arno Balzarini/AP

Pedestrians shuffle through a snowstorm in Burgos, northern Spain Photograph: Cesar Manso/AFP/Getty Images

A skater passes windmills on a frozen waterway in Kinderdijk, The Netherlands Photograph: Michael Kooren/Reuters

Revellers flock to Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, London, for some sledging Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

The frozen Tallinn Bay area in Tallinn, capital of Estonia Photograph: Timur Nisametdinov/AP

A near blizzard covers paths and parkland in Burgos, northern Spain Photograph: Cesar Manso/AFP/Getty Images

Birds descend on the partly frozen Elbe river in Dresden, Germany Photograph: Matthias Rietschel/AP

A gladiatorial contest, of sorts, outside the snow-covered Colosseum in Rome Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images

A water taxi sails along a part-frozen Canal of Cannaregio in Venice, Italy Photograph: Marco Secchi/Getty Images

Heavy snowfall forces an end to the Sarajevo city tram service in Bosnia Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters

Workers clean the tracks outside the North Railway Station in Bucharest, Romania Photograph: Bogdan Cristel/Reuters

A father tows his child on a sledge in Sarajevo, Bosnia Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters

A dog bounds through the deep snow in Great Chart, Kent Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

A father and son enjoy the snow in Harrogate, Yorkshire, northern England Photograph: Bethany Clarke/Getty Images

A unicyclist battles the conditions in a Budapest park, Hungary Photograph: Bela Szandelszky/AP

A chicken tackles the snow in Vertou, western France Photograph: Stephane Mahe/Reuters

The frozen Prinsengracht canal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Photograph: Peter Dejong/AP

Pelicans huddle to keep warm in St James's Park in central London Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

A woman struggles to negotiate the snow en route to Ibaneta, Spain Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/AP

The frozen Black Sea shoreline of the Constanta harbour in Romania Photograph: Radu Sigheti/Reuters

Snow-covered fields in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Photograph: Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images

Snow-covered tree trunks in Bornholm, Denmark Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images

Frost crystals pictured on a window in Zurich, Switzerland Photograph: Alessandro Della Bella/EPA