Snow report

http://www.wetter.com/wetter_aktuell/wettervorhersage/16_tagesvorhersage/?id=DE0006515- it looks like you must wait for white Christmas if you go to Munich. But Schweinebraten & Knödel are fine not only in Bavaria.

Only a day in Munich this time (as I fly into/out of Munich)...we are going to have a week between Regensburg and Nuremberg.

BTW any German speaking expert ....why do some towns end in -berg and others in -burg?.....it is very difficult to remember how to spell them ;-)

"Burg" means fortress or small fortified place and "Berg" means hill/mountain.
Rothenburg litterally translated in Italian could be something like Castelrosso, Roccarossa...
(but NOT Borgorosso)
whereas Rothenberg would be Monterosso.

BTW: "roth" is a medieval transcription for "red", nowadays written "rot".

Great...thanks necker,I understand it.

Now i just need to remember which one to use when i write it.......

If in Nürnberg have a look at the Burg - 1000 years of interesting German (and Roman) history

Now i just need to remember which one to use when i write it.......

A typical confusion for English speakers ;-) We Dutch speakers for example, don't make that confusion.

9° and sunny today in most of Belgium.

Just back from a week at the ocean. No rain, and quite beautiful in the afternoons at the beach. But everyone in the water was wearing a wetsuit.

Here in Toulouse, the sun is shining, blue sky and 12°.

Back from a few days in Delhi. Large temperature differences between day and night- afternoons up to 25-26C but nights fall to 9-11C. Foggy mornings and hazy afternoons.

I saw plenty of snow in London yesterday, but it was all fake coming out of machines.