World Of Tourism

The lovely bright morning we started off with here in Murcia was destined not to last, according to the early-morning weather forecast on two of the Spanish television channels I watch (the national TVE and the local 7RM) and the sky duly clouded-over by late morning and in the early afternoon the rain started and has since strengthened with bouts of quuite heavy rain. Accentuating the positive,

Here in Spain (and in Europe generally, I think) rainfall is measured in terms of litres per square meter over a given period. The period during which the rainfall is experienced is obviously important, because if 100 litres of rain falls in say, 12 hours, that will be a very different thing than if that same volume of rain falls evenly over a month. The former would be a downpour, the latter a