Sounds hell. You really feel cheated when you get English weather abroad. I went to the south of Spain in Feb' for warm weather training and just got weather training. Even had to go and and buy full finger gloves and over shoes, it was that bad. Not to mention the artificial tan I had to purchase to slap on my legs lol! Only good thing is that you can up the training a tad cos you're not working.

Still it 'll toughen you up for that day you get a race in the crap
Happy days

Julie