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Auburnwine · 11-18-2003, 09:23 AM,

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, 09:55 AM,

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, 10:09 AM,

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, 10:51 AM,

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, 11:22 AM,

Cheers, AW, I'm with you!

Thomas · 11-18-2003, 12:23 PM,

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, 02:35 PM,

Ain't life grand?

ShortWiner · 11-18-2003, 02:45 PM,

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, 04:02 PM,

Christmas in Wiesbaden, Nurnburg, Munich, Strasbourg, Garmisch....ah yes...

Innkeeper · 11-18-2003, 04:43 PM,

To which I would add Sembach, Kaiserslautern, Saarbruken, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Nancy, Metz, Toul, Lux City, and Trier.

winoweenie · 11-18-2003, 06:19 PM,

Howabout, Shawnee, Tecumpseh, Chickasaw, Muskogee, or Pawnee. Them has meeny marvey memories for the weener. WW

wondersofwine · 11-18-2003, 06:53 PM,

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, 07:51 PM,

I spent Christmas in Taipei once. Weird.

Thomas · 11-18-2003, 07:57 PM,

You want weird KC, I spent Christmas in Tehran and also in Thule Greenland.

Innkeeper · 11-18-2003, 09:27 PM,

Well if you want to talk about the pits, it had to be Danang.

ShortWiner · 11-19-2003, 10:01 AM,

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.

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