One thing that I’ve heard repeatedly since arriving in Athens is that it never snows here since it’s too warm and we’re too close to the sea. It might snow in the villages and in the north, but it’d never snow in Athens itself.

You can imagine my surprise when I came back to Athens from Gstaad and the very next day Athens was hit with a snowstorm the likes of which had never been seen before, shutting down the whole city.

I put some pictures on the photo gallery - http://picasaweb.google.com/valtrain/SnowInAthens