You are sooo lucky you saw some snow - light coat as you called it. I live a bit more up to the north-west, western part of the Netherlands where we had no snow at all. Not even a micrometer. Nothing. Nada. But it was cold. The 'feel' temperature was around -10 degrees Celcius, mostly because of the wind, since the it didn't get that cold on the thermometers. Anyways, pretty cool the area you had your strolls through! Love to watch such rural areas covered with - light - snow.