Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
I must admit that having had to travel a lot to Scandiwegia in recent years has had the effect of making me slightly less depressed by our winters.

However bad it gets, I can always reconcile myself to it by thinking 'Well at least I'm not in Finland/Sweden/Norway'.
Conversely, I quite prefer winters in Germany at least this bit of it. Christmas markets may be a bit cheesy but they tend to cheer people up. And it can snow and people just get on with it. Bit of a hard slog when it gets to February mind