The Snow in Spain,

We collected my step-son at madrid airport when he came over for the christmas holidays, it was monday 1 day later than scheduled as they has changed the time of tyhe flight on sunday and he missed the flight, they were a useless airline, pissing everyone off and they have since gone bankrupt, pissing me off as I now have to find a replacement flight and recover the money hopefully from VISA, anyway, travelling back home on Monday 1 day late and it had been a cold cold night so I did see a little bit of snow around but it had all melted by the time we left the hotel the next morning. But as we travelled along the highway back to Malaga the snow got deeper and deeper and I was seeing snow ploughs and the signposts said put on your snow chains, which i would think are not even available in shops here as this country is a desert. So i was a little worried, the traffic got slower and slower and it eventually stopped, after 30 minuted i decided to pull off and find a hotel for the night, after lunch, we pulled over and got into a service stations with a cafe and the snow was about 12 inches deep, the kids were playing solidly for an hour in it until they were soaking wet, they had to change when they got into the car, we ate at the cafe and maybe 2 hours later all the trucks suddenly left so I realised the roads had just cleared, we set off and arrived 5 hours later, total time was 9 hours 4 hours longer than normal.

Showing the snow and stopped traffic