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- Auburnwine - 11-18-2003
Okay, so I am wearing short sleeves today.
With a month and a week until Christmas, I am getting the ball rolling by ordering my Peach Buds, at Wonders' recommendation. I'll get some extras for stocking stuffing.
Anyone know of a good mail-order source for Springerle or should I plan on baking 'em? I've only tried once or twice, but they can't compare to those from a good German bakery.
- Thomas - 11-18-2003
Don't know about Springerle, but if you make it to NYCity wearing short sleeve shirts you will not make it back to Alabama alive--if the natives don't kill you the weather will...
- Thomas - 11-18-2003
Well, right after I made that post, the weather report tells us it will be 62 F in NYCity on Wednesday. Guess I'll have to get out the short sleeves...
- Auburnwine - 11-18-2003
This is the warmest November I remember. I will be ready for some seasonal chill by early December. Ah, December in New York! I could spend half a day around the big Christmas tree at the Metropolitan Museum.
At some Christmas in my life, I would love to be in Vienna or Munich -- or maybe let a cottage near Chipping Camden or in the Malvern Hills.
Ah, if I only had the money to match my imagination!
- ShortWiner - 11-18-2003
Cheers, AW, I'm with you!
- Thomas - 11-18-2003
In 1975 I was in Munich around Christmas, and in London on both Christmas and Boxing Day. It certainly was enlightening and romantic--I was with my wife of two years at the time, and we are still going strong...
I particularly remember the how easily we each slipped into the German habit in Munich to eat all day long, while walking the great city--alternating with stops in cafes for a schnapps to warm the innards. Leberkasse and beer was among my favorite delicacies then.
In London, the place closed up for Christmas, but we got to take part in a fabulous Handels Messiah, in Saint Martin's in the Field Church. We were hungry the day after Boxing Day, however, having found little to eat in hotels--many restaurants went on holiday too.
- Auburnwine - 11-18-2003
Ain't life grand?
- ShortWiner - 11-18-2003
Oy, Leberkasse! I can't say my memories of that particular style of sausage are as happy as yours, foodie, but then I had a touch of the flu around that time... [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/tongue.gif[/img]
- hotwine - 11-18-2003
Christmas in Wiesbaden, Nurnburg, Munich, Strasbourg, Garmisch....ah yes...
- Innkeeper - 11-18-2003
To which I would add Sembach, Kaiserslautern, Saarbruken, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Nancy, Metz, Toul, Lux City, and Trier.
- winoweenie - 11-18-2003
Howabout, Shawnee, Tecumpseh, Chickasaw, Muskogee, or Pawnee. Them has meeny marvey memories for the weener. WW
- wondersofwine - 11-18-2003
I've visited the Nurnbuerger Christkindlmarkt and spent Christmas in Garmisch and Oberammergau and in a hotel (former monastery I believe) in Konstanz. It wasn't the same as going home to be with family but it tweren't a bad second!
- Kcwhippet - 11-18-2003
I spent Christmas in Taipei once. Weird.
- Thomas - 11-18-2003
You want weird KC, I spent Christmas in Tehran and also in Thule Greenland.
- Innkeeper - 11-18-2003
Well if you want to talk about the pits, it had to be Danang.
- ShortWiner - 11-19-2003
My weirdest Christmas was in Pidgeon Forge, TN, sandwiched between Dollywood and Great Smokey Mtns National Park. Man, is that a bizarre place. Sort of like Las Vegas, what with the neon wedding chapels and billboard-size reproductions of Dolly, except it's a dry town. And there it is, a pink wasteland nestled in the middle of all this majestic beauty.