We had two long days of rain in the past two weeks, and both days I was teaching. It's a 20 minute walk, and you can cut off about half the time by taking the train, but might not save much time because at times (like early Saturday morning when I teach) the trams only run every 20 minutes. If you just miss a tram, while you have to wait you could almost have walked the entire distance.
The normal stores around here do not sell umbrellas. However, when it looks like rain, the sidewalk vendors appear with a variety of umbrellas.
View from the outside of Salle 17, on the second floor, showing the rain clouds, at 9 am on a Saturday morning. Cold and depressing day.
Inside of salle 17. Note the VGA cable from the overhead projector, for which I had to get the HDMI to VGA dongle. At least with the dark sky outside the bright sun light would not obliterate the screen. I was very early, since I left to with enough time to take the tram, but I just missed one (saw it pulling out as I rounded the corner) and since it wasn't really raining I just walked the whole way.
My umbrella. The third time I opened it, it refused to stay open. Two PhDs and a PE could not figure out way; we could not see anything broken. We had no baling wire, and no duck tape, the go to repair tools, so we were briefly stumped. Then I remembers the fiber string that was on the bottle of olive oil from the cooperative around the corner, and we tied it open. Only problem is you cannot close the umbrella, but.....
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