Winter
25/01/2007 21:13 Filed in:
Appenzeller
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!