It’s been an incredible night. At around 1700 hours yesterday an incessant fall of snow started to cover the Grand Duchy. Within an hour it was absolute chaos. I could follow it from my vantage point in my office in Kirchberg which overlooks a main artery of the rush-hour traffic. My colleagues and I were blocked in the office till we ventured out at around 2200 hour and managed to get home safely.
What has been impressive is not the ten centimetres of snow that have coated the country and paralysed transport to and from Luxembourg (trains still working though) but the sight of hundreds of people walking with one arm raised and a mobile device in their hands happily snapping away at the event. On such occasions, as Malta has shown with its recent floods, the nation becomes one whole mobile reporter. This photo of mine of a bus in distress blocking the main road made it to L’essentiel.
It took my dad (over to Luxembourg for a short visit) two and a half hours to fly to Frankfurt from Malta and nine hours of bus to get to Luxembourg. That’s 2010’s White Christmas for you.
