While I’ve always somewhat embraced rainy days – there’s something so relaxing and refreshing about grey and stormy weather – I often found myself ill-prepared to enjoy them. Living the pedestrian life as a student in Kingston, Ontario and later in the German Hauptstadt of Berlin, rain was most often accompanied by wind and cold. I quickly gave up on umbrellas and accepted that rainy days meant traipsing through the streets sporting my athletic raincoat and feeling rather soggy.
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