At least the rain was warm

Thunderstorm last night broke the drought. my timing was a bit off as we had arranged to have dinner in an area called Palermo (which i now know is a bowl shape). It was raining hard when i managed to muscle an old lady out of the way for a taxi. we drove through some pretty impressive water backing up along the streets and i should have noticed that there were no lights on for the last few blocks of the journey. The driver got to the restuarant, where i had agreed to met Sam (oz) & Dan (swiss). I should have smelled a rat when two people virtually dragged me out of the cab whilst trying to pay.

Matt, one of the Aussies, has kindly sent me some pictures he took on the night. i dont know why it is on its side (it isn't on my computer) perhaps because it was taken by an Aussie half way from down under?

I found myself at a restuarant with a flooded cellar, no electricity & in torrential rain,  Sam apppeared from the shadows, completely soaked & we got a call from Dan saying they had shut the underground down & he was stranded half way to meet us. I had just let the last taxi go that we would see for an hour or more!

Sam had walked past shops with 2 feet of water in them.so we decided to walk our way back in to civilisation as apparently we were in a "bowl" which was getting the worst of the flooding.

Some soggy time later we found a bar that had beer but no lights (apart from candles) & it was Warsteiner!