Snow for the guy from the South

Ah, seems the days of posting snow pictures in Planet Debian have gone, and in any case I don’t have pictures, but I’ll blog about snow nevertheless.

It never snows in Alicante, my home town. It’s by the sea in the south-east of Spain, and the winters are very mild there. I had only seen or touched snow once in my life, when I was about 7 and there was an outing in school to go and see the snow in some nearby mountain. I’m told it was crappy snow anyway.

Today we returned from the QA meeting in Extremadura, arriving in Madrid really early in the morning. Knowing this, I had arranged to stay with friends Sunday and Monday, spending the night at agi@’s place.

The house is in some mountain, at about 1800 meters over sea level, and there was plenty of snow. There was also a slope, and a plastic sled, so we did the obvious. It was fun, it made me happy, and I should pay Alberto another visit some other time with more appropriate clothing.