Sunday 20 July 2008

Singing in the rain

This year has so far been the worst ever weatherwise. Dark heavy
rainclouds follow me wherever I am. So at the moment raindrops keep
falling on my head in Hamburg, a city with an awful reputation for its
climate. People think about bad weather when they hear Hamburg. The
truth however is that the weather here is very inconsistent. And the
trick is that it applies to both ends. True that the sun rarely shines
the whole day. But it rarely rains for a whole day either.
That's why I am sitting in a cafe overlooking the harbour, sipping a
hot drink, watching containerships pass by, waiting for the dark
clouds to go away, being perfectly confident that they will because I
can already see the next blue spell on the horizon.

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