The Snow in Spain ...

... falls mainly in high-lying mountainous areas, because the plains are generally too low and warm for it to settle ...

Buono Estente,

I woke up last Saturday morning to find my night train stopped at a station ... I woke up again two hours later, when it was a bit lighter, and found it was still there because the station was covered in snow ... photographs ensued.

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Stopped for Snow in Medinaceli by Owain Shaw P.I., on Flickr
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Stopped for Snow in Medinaceli by Owain Shaw P.I., on Flickr
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Stopped for Snow in Medinaceli by Owain Shaw P.I., on Flickr

I then got a bit cold as I hadn't really prepared for snow in my itinerary to include Central Spain and The Mediterranean ... I went back inside to warm up a little ...
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Stopped for Snow in Medinaceli by Owain Shaw P.I., on Flickr

Back outside and more adventurous with additional confidence that the train wasn't going to drive off until at least sunrise ...
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Stopped for Snow in Medinaceli by Owain Shaw P.I., on Flickr
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Sunrise at Medinaceli by Owain Shaw P.I., on Flickr
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Sunrise at Medinaceli by Owain Shaw P.I., on Flickr

Once the sunrise had taken place, we did start moving fairly quickly and in the finest of Spanish traditions, I went back to bed ...
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Train in Spain by Owain Shaw P.I., on Flickr

Processed these on a foreign (not being xenophobic, I mean a different/strange) laptop because I gave mine a bash the other week ... let me know if anything looks off with them ...

Boutros, Boutros-Ghali,

Owain.