Several of my friends have alluded to an assumption that Italy has perfect, sunny weather - all year round. This is very understandable. Italy enjoys an association to the dry, mild climate of California, from which we get the term "Mediterranean climate". Popular culture likes to paint a picture of "sunny Italy". Moves range from "Roman Holiday" to "Under the Tuscan Sun". And to be sure, the most stereotypically "Italian" parts of Italy lie further to the south - Capri, Naples, Sicily, where the weather is quite relatively mild and dry.
Milan, in the northern part of Italy, has weather very similar to Philadelphia. It gets about 40 inches of rain a year, has hot summers and cold rainy winters. And it gets about 15 inches of snow a year. I was fortunate enough to witness an early season snowfall - which I photographed on a scenic walk to a Thanksgiving feast that my church generously provided to nostalgic Americans and other curious internationals.
At top - the view from my dorm balcony. Below - tranquil countryside just minutes away from the most industrialized city in Italy. Last photo - smelling distance from Thanksgiving dinner! (and site of a most brutal snowball fight :)
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3 comments:
!!! those pictures definitely change my vision of italy. beauuutiful.
thanks for the advice. sorry for sounding pretentious. so much to learn. cs lewis is a good guy to learn from. right now i'm working on 'el caso del creador" yes...found it in spanish...pretty exciting.
Wow so you've had more snow in "sunny warm Italy" than I experienced in freezing Scotland, where we only had 8hrs of daylight! I must say I'm not really jealous, although it is beautiful. I wonder if we'll have a snowy spring in Philly? PA's a mess right now with rain/sleet/snow.
so discovering your blog just before you returned to the states was a mistake, because it's great. speaking of lessons learned, i will make a blog for my next expedition. as you make your way home, have a fantastic finale in milan. see you at Penn in january!
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