And the cold I’m currently doing battle with even more so. You know when you’ve been promised something (or an event has been placed before you as a highly probable outcome) and then it is unceremoniously retracted? Yanked from the realms of even vague possibility? Well, Germany (and I would go so far as to say Europe in general), has done just that with the advent of spring and its promise of warm, wonderful weather.

As a recent inhabitant of Germany, I feel quite hard done by, honestly, tho...