Rain

On my way back from class today I stopped to get a sandwich. While I waiting in line I noticed a few small drops of rain, something not unusual to see here. I asked for my sandwich to be bagged in plastic and then headed back to my dorm. Within seconds, not even minutes, the sky opened up and began pouring while I rode back on my bike. I've biked in rain before, so I wasn't particularly worried about a crash, but I'm both unused to so many other bikers going in a multitude of directions around me, and unfamiliar with how cobble stone and brick (the materials other than asphalt that almost all streets here are comprised of) behave when wet. In the end I made it back safely by biking very carefully across the variety of surfaces on my ride, but not without reprisals. My extra time spent riding safely while rain whipped my face and made it difficult to see left me soaked through my jeans to my boxers. It rains pretty hard here.