Coming from the UK, rain definitely isn’t a special event! However, as it only rains a few times a year (less than 20), here in Santiago, it really is a special event.
On Wednesday, as the end of my working day was drawing closer, I heard squeals of delight from the children in my class as they realised it was raining. And not just raining, there was thunder and lightening too! It made me laugh, as it’s such a comparison to our reaction at rain in the UK.
Anyway, the reason I don’t mind rain in Santiago is because it clears the smog away and also means there is more snow in the mountains. So the second I got home, I got to see these views from my balcony. I grabbed my camera and stared in amazement at how beautiful the views were.
With clear skies, came even more dramatic sunsets a few hours later. It really was the most beautiful!
And finally this…
This was the first time I had seen rain since arriving in Chile in the beginning of November. I started to forget all about what rain felt like! It actually had rained in January during the night and we woke up to it being the main story on the news as it is so unusual that it rains during the summer.
Have a lovely weekend! ❤
Marcella xx
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Beautiful pictures (:
Thank you! 🙂
I come from a place where it rarely rains as well, it was event at school too! Amazing sunsets too by the way 🙂
I bet! I think it’s like the UK and snow as it doesn’t happen often so it’s the most exciting!!
That sunset is so pretty!!
Isn’t it just? The sunsets here seem to be getting better and better!
nice photos!
Thanks Tanja! 🙂
Enjoying your sunset pictures. Please send over some of the Chilean sun, I would have loved to see your students’ reactions. They sound so cute.x
Sending some now!! Although we don’t have so much of it these days 😉
Wow! *.* Amazing pictures!!! 🙂
Thank you so much! 🙂
wow! Really gorgeous images! I feel the same way about rain in Singapore- it definitely clears the air a bit plus it is sometimes cooling. Not always, but often enough.
Thank you, Karen! I can imagine you get the same feeling in Singapore too 🙂 I never thought I wouldn’t mind rain as I really don’t like it in the UK.
WOW! Gorgeous! I remember the horrible horrible smog in Santiago and how you can barely even see the mountains. I love how you can so clear see the snow capped mountains in the distance. In Southern California, it barely rains as well. And here in Kuala Lumpur, rain is a daily occurrence… the thunder and lightning kind! I kind of like it. 🙂
Yup, it’s bad! But to be honest, I never notice it until I go up high and look down and see the line of smog, eeeek! But when the sky is clear it is crazily beautiful 🙂
Gorgeous!! Call me crazy, but these photos remind me a lot of Grenoble…
Here in Chicago, it’d been raining for a WHOLE WEEK. And today it finally stopped. I’m hoping to be able to bike commute to work soon 🙂
Nice comparison! I haven’t been but I guess it’s the mountains that made you think it 🙂 Hoping you get a break from the rain soon!
Wow, those views out to the mountains are something else. I never though I’d say this but… it’s a shame it doesn’t rain more! You can have some of our English rain if you like. I can’t believe that sunset, either. It’s so orange! And the way it lights up the mountains! Incredible
Beautiful, isn’t it? And seriously such a treat to see snowy mountains from our balcony, I really couldn’t get enough of that swoon worthy view 😉
It must be strange to get such little rain! Such GORGEOUS views and sunset 🙂
It is definitely weird! I am used to a lot of rain at home… But, I’m not complaining 😉
Wow, love the snow-capped mountains. Your photos with the snow-capped mountains in the background remind me of Tehran, Iran. It’s an absolute delight to see the mountains behind the buildings 🙂
Aren’t they beautiful? 🙂
It really is hysterical to see how people react here to a little rain ….. Straight chaos. My children were screaming and hiding during the storm. I was a little thrown off too, but just because I forgot an umbrella and the storm came out of no where…… Can’t beat the views afterwards though! Finally gets rid of the dreaded smog! 😀
It was like me when we get snow in London, which doesn’t happen often! The views though, they are too good!!
Amazing photos!
Thanks so much, Susann!
Beautiful shots Marcella. Definitely worth a bit of rain to produce those! 🙂
Thank you, Jessi! 🙂
Wow, I can imagine how happy I would be to see rain if it only rained 20 times a year where I live! Your post makes me appreciate the stormy skies we get oh-so-often.
Stormy skies can be beautiful too 🙂
I have to tell you, you have a gorgeous view from your balcony to that mountain 🙂
Sofia (where I live) is lying at the foot of a mountain, just like Santiago, but I can’t see the mountain from my balcony… when I was reading your other post about mountains, I realized I have never taken a picture of the Sofia mountain, it’s a shame (blush)…
glad you enjoyed the rain there 🙂 is it warm this time of the year?
Thanks, I am obsessed with the view! You should start to take photos of the mountains, I think it becomes a ‘normal’ view, and the camera helps you to see how pretty it is!
We are in Autumn so the weather is cooling down but it’s not ‘cold’ for a British girl haha! 😀