50 shades of gray

I am beginning to remember some of the things I hated about Dutch weather. It is only coming back to be now because we had some really nice weeks with sunshine and I was really in my zone, even having some Caribbean vibes still with it.

But these last couple of days have been super dreadful to look outside. When you wake up the sky is gray, and when the sun goes down the sky is gray. It is not that the temperature is bad or anything, it is perfect to go outside and do stuff actually. But it is not inspiring to go outside.

Because this grayness casts a blanket or boringness over everything. On my first day back in Europe I remember saying: ‘wow the sky is really blue today, this is not how I remember it. Normally it is always a bit hazy when the sky is blue’

Turns out that was a day where it was extremely clear, un-European clear.

Caribbean

Maybe that is even what makes the Caribbean so special. That on all normal days the colors outside are so super vibrant. The water is bluer than blue, the sky is blue than blue, and that makes the rest of the outside also more radiant. They same thing when you look at peoples clothing for instance. I always felt people were wearing a lot of colors there.

I am doubting now if they were actually wearing more colors, or it was just me feeling as if they were wearing more colors. And yes, it would rain there as well, and be gray as well. But that usually would not last longer than a couple of hours.

If you look at apps like Windguru and so you can see this in cloud coverage. This devides the coverage over low/middle/high. Is there is coverage in all three layers, it will be a gray day. But that is not often in the Caribbean. I would often get up with grey skies and pouring rain, and sit on the beach with not a single cloud just a couple hours later.

The Netherlands

Pexels, Mike Chai

In the Netherlands it is not like this (maybe if you live closer to the sea, but not in the South East where I am staying). Maybe you will have a ray of light break through these clouds somewhere during the days, but usually grey=grey.

It also feels a bit like the people are adding in this. Dark coats, dark pants. Why is this? And if I look at myself? Yeah maybe I also even wear more darker colors as that I do in the Caribbean. But not as much as most people, that I can say for sure.

Rain

Im not even talking about rain here. Because that is a whole different ball game. While having rain in the Caribbean is perfect to take a chill pill for a second, rain in Europe is so dreadful.
People here say the winter was so long this year. I can not imagine how I would have been in that.

Mountains

Pexels, Gabriela Palai

Yeah so I will be moving to the mountains shortly to a city on 422 meters of altitude. A lake is surrounding it. This could turn out awesome in my journey against greyness or turn out disastrous. Because clouds often hang in between mountains. But at least we will have some contrast of the mountains in the back to have more background.

Im curious! Lets wait and see!

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