Stefan…

Here you go: It’s been snowing yesterday evening! It has been getting colder for some days and on Tuesday finally it started snowing! In the afternoon the sky turned dark – and I mean DARK – and what looked like an enormous aproaching thunderstorm got us about 10 cm of snow.

This is how I like it: Binary seasons Just a few weeks ago I was able to enjoy my time here by canoeing with the ESN (swimming in warm lakes and getting sunburned), then there was “binary” fall for a few weeks (the leaves turned yellow, red and brown within a few days and it started to become colder quite fast) and right on time now there is (at least a little bit of) snow! And for a perfect start into the winter this was proceeded the next days with cold air and perfect sunshine without a single cloud! Jätte bra!

On the other hand Tuesday’s weather “looked” like an enormous thunderstorm in Linköping, but as a matter of fact it “was” an enormous stormfront for most of the norhern parts of Europe with storm tides along the German coastline, heavy snow-related traffic problems all over Sweden and as a result of the rough weather the container ship Finnbirch sank between Öland and Gotland right in front of the Swedish coastline and two of the crewmembers died. Considering this heavy weather all around we have been quite lucky here in Linköping.

Suddenly there are only a few days left in Aachen. Time is passing fast!

And I can tell you there are a lot of things that feel quite strange – think about switching to M+S tires in July when the temperature has been constantly 30°C or above…