I'm so sick of rain. The rain it raineth every day... that's England, or so it seems after nine years of living here. (I can't believe I start my tenth year in August.)
Here, we get two inches of snow and I think it's nothing. But everyone else thinks it's horrible, the roads are impassable etc. My first year here I was incredulous, hearing that a colleague's husband had got his car stuck in three inches of snow. She thought it was a huge amount, and I couldn't figure out how anyone could get stuck in so little snow. ;) Granted, our tyres aren't as good -- we don't have all-weather radials, for example, but still. I've taught Ian to steer into the skid. :)
When we went to Sweden for 12th Night in 2008 with a 1.5 hour drive from the site to Stockholm on Sunday morning and it was snowing, guess who drove? Not the native Englishman. ;)
I imagine if we got as much rain as you do, I would eventually tire of it. And I can't believe it's been that long either! I understand in Sweden (or is it Switzerland, I can't remember now) you have to pass a special driving test which consists of driving on a frozen lake in order to get your driver's license.
Don't know about the driving test, but I have friends in Sweden I could ask. (I can say that if you move to Finland with a US license, you can exchange it for a Finnish one; I know an American who did that.) I also know someone who lived in Switzerland but now is in Germany; however, she drove there, so she might know. It makes sense. I always wanted to take one of those ice-driving courses in Colorado and regret that I never got around to it.
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Here, we get two inches of snow and I think it's nothing. But everyone else thinks it's horrible, the roads are impassable etc. My first year here I was incredulous, hearing that a colleague's husband had got his car stuck in three inches of snow. She thought it was a huge amount, and I couldn't figure out how anyone could get stuck in so little snow. ;) Granted, our tyres aren't as good -- we don't have all-weather radials, for example, but still. I've taught Ian to steer into the skid. :)
When we went to Sweden for 12th Night in 2008 with a 1.5 hour drive from the site to Stockholm on Sunday morning and it was snowing, guess who drove? Not the native Englishman. ;)
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