back in Germany

[merriehaskell]

I was supposed to go to Munich today and spend the day there before training to Frankfurt tomorrow, but when I really started thinking about walking a 3/4s of a mile from the train station to my hotel with my giant suitcase in the slush and the cold, I thought, "You know what would be great? If I just rented a car and went back to Rothenburg ob

Comments

[mrgeddylee]

Most Americans use all-season tires. Given the German attitude toward handling and driving safety, it would not surprise me at all if they used summer and winter tires. True summer tires have next to no grip on snow or ice.

Seasonal tires rule and more Americans should get them.

[cathshaffer]

What an unpleasant chore to change your tires twice a year. Ugh. Where do you store them? Do you go to the tire shop, have them changed, and have the off season tires thrown in the back? Do you sell and repurchase tires twice a year? Where do Germans put the extra tires in their teeny little Euro-dwellings? I have so many questions about this...

[dichroic]

It was absolutely normal to put on snow tires every winter when I was growing up in Philadelphia, 1970s. I think that was before all-weather radials became more common.

[mrgeddylee]

I have two sets of wheels, so changing summer for winter or back again is just wrench work. Previously I have gone to the tire shop, but starting this year I'll be doing it myself, as I finally have the tools.

I keep my off-season tires in the basement. At some point I'll probably want to reorganize the garage and store them there.

Being a Michigander I cannot speak to the intricacies of Euro-dwellings.

[cathshaffer]

LOL! I was struggling with the winter tire concept on Twitter. See, the Germans want you to be safe, and also to have alcohol with your meal. It all makes so much sense. Wish I could pop in for little parts of your trip. It sounds like a blast.

[beth_bernobich]

Noooo. Spaetzle is not mac and cheese. Spaeztle is a kind of noodle. Sometimes it's served with cheese, but more often with just butter, as a side dish.

I'm sorry you had such a miserable food experience. *offers hugs and self as translator for the next trip*

[merriehaskell]

Oh, you're right, it wasn't really mac and cheese, and it was quite tasty (and it was billed as spaetzle and cheese, so that's why there was cheese). Just too much of it! And too much the same song over and over.

[dichroic]

There *is* snow in and around Rothenberg: here are pictures from Saturday, in Rothenberg and Stuttgart.

[merriehaskell]

But the roads are perfectly clear. I meant new snow.

[dichroic]

Is your German good enough to follow weather forecasts? I don't know about there, but here, not all that far away, there's posible snow predicted all week. None of it here is expected to be heavy snow however. But Rothenburg's higher.

[dendrophilous]

spatzle with cheese is just mac and cheese

They should have a lot more texture than pasta. They're awesome with paprikas.