Winter

I'm a day late writing this. You'll have to excuse me, but I wasn't home yesterday.

Winter arrived at last - I already said it would, I read it in the news and saw the satellite images.
The Swiss didn't.
As usual Swiss drivers were taken by surprise.
"Oh!! What's that white stuff on the roads?!"
Drive carefully, don't do more than 30 kmh, it might be dangerous!
It is exactly the same every winter!
I could understand it in the Midlands of GB, where snow is rare and no-one has winter tires, but hey! Hello! We have a meter of snow in this corner of the world every year!

It took me 45 minutes to get down to the motorway as opposed to the usual 15.
On the motorway the inside lane was free of traffic, they were all playing 'traffic jam' in the outside lane.
I hope no-one was offended that I used the vacant lane - it was much quicker and I never heard of a law that prohibits use of both lanes in snow?

After weeks of warm, spring weather, the temperatures have dropped to around zero. All of a sudden it feels chill, I'll have to put my t-shirts back in the wardrobe for a few days until I acclimatise.

Uuhm - if anyone Swiss reads this blog ...
... there may be just a little snow tomorrow, but there will be snow on Saturday. Please don't play traffic jams, I'd like to get some shopping done!
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