It's been a pretty crappy winter - characterised by rain, cold and grey grey grey. It has been pretty miserable. In German I guess you could say we have had several months of 'Graushleier' - which is a veil of grey over the city. Well that's certainly what it has felt like.
Until yesterday!
Snow bloody snow :) It's unbelievable how much of a mood changer snow can be, and how different the city can look. One day its DDR cold war spy shit and the next day its a fairytale winter wonderland. :)
We made a snowman and he was happy.
And this week is the only week you can buy fireworks...(sale restricted only between 28 - 31 December)
So we went out to get our fireworks and some essentials for the coming days.
The snow is not quite treacherous enough to stop riding, but you do have to be extra careful. Most roads are cleared and this is 100% safe, whereas some of the cycle paths are not so clear - but they do have grit thrown over them which helps. We got a flat tyre today, so I'm suspicious that the grit had something to do with that.
It's always funny to see that people actually use sleds, and have to park them!
Out our go-to supermarket we got our fireworks, our beers for Silvester (New Years Eve) and were super surprised to see how much Stollen (German Christmas bread) had been discounted. The normal ones we buy are usually just under 3 Euros, and these had now been discounted to between 32 and 70 cents. For some reason both of these that we bought cost 35 cents.
For some reason 2L Diet Coke was also discounted...to 10 cents? wha!
Renowned Stollen comes from Dresden and this is usually the pricey stuff. We got one today for 3 Euros that is usually 12 Euros....and it comes in a tin! If it comes in a tin it must be fancy.
Also this time of year is celebrated with 'pfannkuchen' - German donuts, and the supermarket were selling these, fresh, for 40 cents each so natch we had to get a couple.
And of course we got our bag of fireworks...a 'family' assortment :)
Christmas, Snow, Snowmen, Stollen, Fireworks, Beers, Pfannkuchen, Silvester...this last week looks like it will make up for the dismal winter we have had so far :)
Until yesterday!
Snow bloody snow :) It's unbelievable how much of a mood changer snow can be, and how different the city can look. One day its DDR cold war spy shit and the next day its a fairytale winter wonderland. :)
We made a snowman and he was happy.
And this week is the only week you can buy fireworks...(sale restricted only between 28 - 31 December)
So we went out to get our fireworks and some essentials for the coming days.
The snow is not quite treacherous enough to stop riding, but you do have to be extra careful. Most roads are cleared and this is 100% safe, whereas some of the cycle paths are not so clear - but they do have grit thrown over them which helps. We got a flat tyre today, so I'm suspicious that the grit had something to do with that.
It's always funny to see that people actually use sleds, and have to park them!
Out our go-to supermarket we got our fireworks, our beers for Silvester (New Years Eve) and were super surprised to see how much Stollen (German Christmas bread) had been discounted. The normal ones we buy are usually just under 3 Euros, and these had now been discounted to between 32 and 70 cents. For some reason both of these that we bought cost 35 cents.
For some reason 2L Diet Coke was also discounted...to 10 cents? wha!
Renowned Stollen comes from Dresden and this is usually the pricey stuff. We got one today for 3 Euros that is usually 12 Euros....and it comes in a tin! If it comes in a tin it must be fancy.
Also this time of year is celebrated with 'pfannkuchen' - German donuts, and the supermarket were selling these, fresh, for 40 cents each so natch we had to get a couple.
And of course we got our bag of fireworks...a 'family' assortment :)
Christmas, Snow, Snowmen, Stollen, Fireworks, Beers, Pfannkuchen, Silvester...this last week looks like it will make up for the dismal winter we have had so far :)
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