Mediterranean Climate Blues...

5 Feb 2012photosmontpellier

To compensate for the psychopathic driving habits of the French, the Mediterranean climate is often offered up as a benefit of life here. For those of us who are not all that keen on temperatures in the 30s for weeks on end in the summer, that’s not much of a compensation. However, today, I would offer another piece of evidence that this “Mediterranean climate” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Here’s the swimming pool in our residence, with a nice layer of ice all across it. And yes, Rita is wearing a down jacket, an article of clothing more common on the ski slopes and high mountains than the Mediterranean coast...

Brrrr...