On this
day in 1577 Sir Francis Drake set off on his voyage to circumnavigate the
world.
One
of the places Drake would have visited was Africa. Several hundred years later
famines on the continent would have provided the inspiration for the world's
most patronising Christmas song which included lyrics like “and there won't be
snow in Africa this Christmas...” as if that was a bad thing. The mass
shut-downs of any sorts of transport infrastructure we get in this country when
it snows every year are bad enough, but imagine how bad it would get in a
country situated on the equator where it has never snowed before ever! It'd be
like the apocalypse:
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