Well... I'm sure that some of you would think this is only a tiny little snowy day, but in Barcelona, when it really rarely snows, and when it does it is so weak it hardly turns any road white...
Yesterday I was working, luckily in a big-windowed office, so we could see all the snow since the beginning. It started to rain first, and after some rain some little snowflake started to fall. But gound was wet and weather was not so cold, so it lasted a lot of time... hours, until it started to lie. It did at 15h aprox., when snow was falling more and more heavily. A lot of people in the office decided to go home earlier, as we supposed Barcelona is not used to snow and we could have problems with trains and cars. Of course, we had! No train was leaving the station except two which had a very short distance to travel. Perhaps you can remember I work in Barcelona but live in Calella, at 60 km... Luckily for me, Xiquet was trapped in Barcelona too (he works in another city near Barcelona, and he went out from there with great difficulties, by car, but he had to leave the car in Barcelona as it was impossible to drive!). So, we together booked a hotel for a single night, at 100 m from my work
Today trains worked again, but as the tracks of the train are by the coast, and we have high waves due to the wind, I lasted more than 2h before arriving home, instead the 1h15min it use to last. Nice day
Well... This is the bad part. The good part is that I was walking (and trying not to fall) in a heavy snow storm (heavy for us, I'm aware!), what I almost enjoyed if not for my wet and frozen feet toes. And I saw a fantastic and hard to see again view of Barcelona. You must think we are a coast city and it only snows every 3 or 4 years, or less, and never so hard. Infrastructures are simply not prepared! All city was isolated because you could use no train, no car, no bus... even it was really difficult to use mobile phone
Some pictures taken from internet. I took some with my mobile camera, but the quality is so bad it even looks as a less snowy day
