Does anybody fancy a warm winter holiday in Barcelona? May be not.

And it continues to fall.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/domenec/4417444514/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/domenec/4416677673/

Gloriously shot from Chateau Domenec a couple of hours after fucking off the
office sharply, listening to some "it won't be that hard" comments from
other bikers. Bikers who haven't lived for a year in the Alps, nor had been
part of the university ski team, so they don't know the type of snow flakes
that means "this is serious stuff coming"- In a war I'd be a coward, but a
living coward

 

Heh.

And in Chateau Murray, the boiler has just packed up. Joy.

 

Blimey. When was the last time it did that?

Must be quite a sight from Tibidabo?

 

Hmm maybe not:
http://servicios.elcomerciodigital.com/webcam/espana/cataluna/webcam-barcelona-tibidabo.htm

 

Tarragona early this year had ferking great snowfalls. I travelled the
Zaragoza-Barcelona highway and you would believe you were in the Alps =:-o

Mont Dore?

 

Tarragano's a shitehole.

 

Didn't it do that last year as well ?

 

I remember other snowfalls in '85, '99, '01 and '05, this one looks like a
good one.

But he Big One was back in '62, 50cm of snow!

http://images.google.es/images?q=nevada+barcelona+1962

Tibidabo was showing some white this morning, and local police had closed
the access. Now vehicles accessing the neighbourhoods on the mountain (100
metres above sea level) are having serious fun.

Tomorrow morning I hope to get some stunning pics from the office and
Chateau D'om.

 

In communiqué

Usually a warmer sunnier one than here though.

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Indeed. The damn thing just isn't igniting, and it wasonly serviced six
weeks ago, too.

 

"Castell Valles", Shirley?

 

http://tinyurl.com/mkze32 [WS]

 

That sounds like a village name (usually built near castles, guess why

Ca'n Domènec would be the every day word. Which leads to some exotic
results:

http://www.foodeu.com/spain/restaurants-in-parets del valles/restaurant-can-fart/448275/

 

I quite like Chateau D'Om

 

And a 12V fag lighter just in case it runs out of petrol.

 

Feel free to read the review in the Michelin Guide for Sofa Tourers ;-)

 

+1 It has a certain ring to it.

 

Not the coast, but the center is *cold* (600metres above sea level, mind).

 

Same here. The irrationalrageometer was off the scale this morning. I
really need to wake up gently whilst standing under a hot shower for
several minutes before I can get going. Didn't help that this was the
day I'd committed to riding my push bike to work either.

Lucky my plumber happens to have similar drinking tastes to myself
(lots) so I got priority service, just heard he's managed to get it
going again and a new expansion vessel should be delivered tomorrow to
guarantee the fix.

 

Ho, ho.