When we came to Pampeluna itself, we found it so indeed; and to me, that had been always used to a hot climate, and to countries where I could scarce bear any clothes on, the cold was insufferable; nor, indeed, was it more painful than surprising to come but ten days before out of Old Castile, where the weather was not only warm but very hot, and immediately to feel a wind from the Pyrenean Mountains so very keen, so severely cold, as to be intolerable and to endanger benumbing and perishing of our fingers and toes.
A mí, que siempre había vivido en un clima cálido, en el cual apenas podía tolerar las ropas, el frío se me hacía insoportable. En realidad, a todos nos resultaba más penoso que sorprendente sentir el viento de los Pirineos, tan frío e intolerable, que amenazaba con congelarnos las manos y los pies; sobre todo, cuando hacía apenas diez días que habíamos salido de Castilla la Vieja, donde no solo hacía buen tiempo, sino calor.