Snow in Paris

Just prior to Christmas we were greeted one morning with about 10cm of Snow. It started at about 8am, just in time for peak hour and as such there was chaos on the streets (well even more than usual). I decided to hit the town with my camera to take some pics and generally enjoy the winter wonderland.

There were still a few idiots who decided that riding a motorcycle in the snow was a good idea. During the morning I saw three different people come off there cycles on the snowy roads. I even helped one guy pick his bike back up after he took a tumble right beside me on the road while I was walking along.

Germany

It was very pleasant to travel to Germany for a week and enjoy some ruthless German efficiency, which is a far cry from the stifling French bureaucracy as described previously.

We took in Berlin and Munich, and got out to a few different activities.

The best thing that we did was go for a drive in a 'Trabi' the people's car (if you happened to be people from East Germany) which was the pride of East German engineering. With an enormous 500cc two stroke engine, generating a massive 19kw of power, the Trabi truly was the car of its time. It had a four speed column shift gearbox. To make things easier this was the first time that I had had the pleasure of driving on the right hand side of the road. To my credit, I managed not to stall it once despite a really shitty clutch.

Onto Munich we took in a Bayern Munich Champions League game at the Allianz Arena. Which was pretty cool.

Following this we headed out into the Alps to see a couple of castles, and our first real experience of European Winter.

Lastly we headed out to the Munich Olympic site to have a bit of a look around there as well.