The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly in…Galicia
Last May, when I was telling everyone in southern Spain that I was moving up north to work in the region of Galicia , all the Andalusians I talked to would reply something along the lines of “OOOOOOOH it’s SOOOOOO rainy there!!! It rains SOOO MUCH in Galicia!!!” Not “watch out, they speak a different language there” or “the food is really delicious”—it was always something about the rain. View this post on Instagram Galicia: the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow 🌈 // #rainbow #galicia #spain #vsco #vscocam A post shared by Trevor Huxham (@trevorhuxham) on Jan 29, 2014 at 1:58pm PST Over the course of the school year, I diligently recorded whether it rained or not in Santiago de Compostela—a simple “yes” or “no” tally of days with and without rain. People made things sound like it was perpetually raining in Spain’s northwestern-most region, so I set out to prove them wrong (or right). I kept this tally fro...