From Paris to Mauritius, from snow to sun

As everyone has heard in the news, here in Paris we don't usually get snow during winter... we get maybe 1 or 2 centimeters during a couple of days, everything will go wild, people will fall, cars will skip and airports will close. But since last 2 years, snow is coming more than a 2 cm fall. On the 19^th of December my eldest daughter had to take her plane to Mauritius to visit the family. When we woke up, snow had fallen, the roads were not clear and my husband had to take us to the nearest RER train station in Paris instead of driving to the airport. Roads were slippery and we would not have been able to make it to the airport which is only a 45 minutes drive from our home south of Paris (Roissy being in the north of Paris).

Anyway I went to the airport with my daughter, waited and waited and listened to all the announcements of delayed and of cancelled flights. There were two flights for Mauritius and one was cancelled. Finally she went in and managed to take off at 11 PM instead of 4 PM. But she was real lucky. Our neighbor said she was due to leave from Roissy for a destination in Africa but since they had to land in Bruxelles first, well since the airport was closed, their flight was cancelled. I think that night maybe less than 5 flights could take off as all flights to Europe had been cancelled and most other countries involving a stop in Europe.

So here’s some photos of that morning, and one showing how it looked like in my parents’ neighborhood in Mauritius. Lucky girl had a temperature change of more than 30 degrees. She’s now suntanned and full of energy for the rest of winter.