Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A winter storm called Gloria has been battering Spain since late last week. The worst-hit areas are in the northern half of the country, with lots of snow, hurricane-strength winds, lots of flooding, and a lot of destruction. Here in Alicante we got off relatively easy, and the bad weather arrived later than predicted, on Sunday afternoon/evening. As I write it, on Wednesday, the weather is back to normal; the beach is a mess but otherwise no major problem. On Sunday afternoon I went down to the beach to have a look and to photograph a rare sight?snow just 30 km from Alicante or so, at the higher elevations (meanwhile, a family was taking a walk on the beach with their dog who jumped in the water several times): https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Lt73t8t/A Then the clouds cleared for a brief interlude, yielding this view of El Campello: https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-8CSVQfv/A Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right"