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Snow & Moving to a new apartment!

Monday, January 5, 2009 2:07:25 PM

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It snowed again in Düsseldorf (3rd time this winter) and low temperatures and maybe some more snow are in store for the next couple of days as the weathermen have it.

I walked to the office this morning! Good thing I bought my great new snow boots, they came in handy today! This afternoon we are going to have our new apartment keys handed over to us and in good time too since the movers are arriving with our furniture from Portugal tomorrow morning! This is very likely going to go down in our family history as the most hectic Christmas and New Years ever! With the move to our new and slightly larger apartment and all the other settling in activities, I feel like I have hardly had time to breathe let alone enjoy the holidays! But on the whole this is fun, even if it is a lot to handle!

The view from my office window this morning!

On the way to the office this morning, more photos here!

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Yesterday it snowed in Lisbon!

Monday, January 30, 2006 12:54:05 PM

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Sam and I were just finnishing breaskfast yesterday when I looked outside and the rain looked much whiter and thicker than usual bigeyes

I couldn't believe my eyes - it was snowing!
Bruno called his mother, my brother called me... our whole family had their noses glued to the windows, everyone was in complete awe!

Sam fell asleep, it was too early zzz and he could not understand what the fuss was about!

It hadn't snowed in Lisbon in over 50 years! Normally in only snows in the mountais in Portugal, and not in all of them at that! People all over the country just went snow crazy and faced a freezing (at least for Portuguese standards) -2º centigrade just to go outside and have some snow flakes land on their heads... well, everybody but us.

Snow flakes look at lot nicer from the inside of a warm living room with a lit fire-place! It was just too cold and too early to go outside!

It snowed for some 40 minutes in Lisbon, not enough to cover the ground! But some other places in Portugal were luckier - Évora (one of my favourite towns in the Alentejo) was covered in white - and this is a place where you can expect temperatures over 40º cent. in the summer!

Sunday 29th January 2006 is a day for the history books - it maybe another 50 years before we see snow flakes land on the river Tagus (or not... the way that global warming is going, we might be looking at stranger things to come scared )

Here's a pic of how it looked in Évora

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