Hi Carmen, yeah, I no exactly what you mean by cold, and that christmas in Barcelona really was bloody cold. I was there all through christmas, and It was very suddenly turned into the north pole all around north eastern Spain, and Catalunya & parts of southern france were deluged by massive snow storms, and they even had power cuts all over Catalunya for a while.
I like to remember that christmas in Barcelona in some ways, but not in another, because I became violently ill with Influenza on the way back to London, and suffered a partial paralysis in the left side of my face, losing all feeling in the teeth on that side, and generally felt frozen to the core.
That winter in the north was severe, and I can remember some other freak weather events around that time as well, like the time when they had a Typhoon on the coast, from Barcelonetta up to gerona, and it washed all the sand of the beaches, hundreds if not thousands of Tons of it was washed out to sea.
I went down to have a look at the beach the next day, and it was gone!!! I mean everything, deck chairs & all. what a sight
I think that there has been quite a few examples of extreme weather events in Spain over the last few years for some strange reason.
Do you remember hearing about the massive floods in Barcelona, with La Rambla turned back into a river again? Que curioso no?
I wonder if it had anything to do with "el ni�o".
And in June of last year, when I was in Madrid for my usual 2 week vacation, I was just boiling day & night, with daytime temps of around 44/47 degrees Celsius in most parts of the city, and I thought the previous June was bad enough, but last June -
Well anyway, there you go.
Let us know of your experiences with weather extremes and freak events in Spain.
Ciao for now, hasta luego.
Nigel.
