Winter has arrived, brrr

Snow near Ronda

Winter has definitely arrived in Southern Spain. The temperature has suddenly plunged, just above zero where we live, but a few kilometers up the road there is snow.

The snow is on the mountains around Ronda as you can see from this photo, which was taken at one of the supermarkets looking upto the Sierra de las Nieves, an appropriate name,the snow mountains.

The funny thing is that the mountains on the other side of Ronda are snow free, but still bitterly cold. Everyone we speak to says this is very unusual in these parts, snow in November hasn’t happened for a very long time.

So of course we’re expecting a cold winter, and I think we might have to go and buy more blankets to wrap around ourselves and also to put on the bed. Last winter we put a blanket on the mattress, and then the sheet over that, and it helped to stop cold air from under the bed coming up.

That’s actually a serious problem with modern mattresses that have springs inside them, they have no insulation to stop cold air, I think the next bed we buy will be a solid foam mattress with a thick mattress protector on it.