Why? Well, because it's the winter solstice: the shortest day of the year! As you can see from the chart below, the sun today rose at 11:23 and set at 3:30, just above 4 hours of (alleged) sunlight. This being my first winter at this latitude, it's been difficult getting up in the morning at times, to say the least. But from today and for the next 6 months, each day will be a bit longer, until we hit the summer solstice and its 20+ hours of light goodness.
4h 06m 45sOf course, by Monday we will already get 10 hours of daylight and temperatures as high as the hottest summer days in this fair town (19 degrees!). But that's because we will be in Beirut for two weeks :)
In the meantime, Jo and I would like to wish any readers of this blog Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
There's a tree behind us, I swear
The downtown Christmas tree, an annual gift from Norway, located by the Parliament
On an unrelated note: does this hat make me look Amish? Because that's not my intention...
