[quote="anonstarter"

The weather's a fickle thing down here. There can be sun in St. Ives and pouring rain in falmouth - just 20 miles away![/quote]

Yeah....but its not as bollock-freezingly cold down there as it is up here!!!!!

AH! you Southerners, The only time i haven't been riding was, when there was 3feet of snow, and ice on the ground. I think that lasted about a week, but, thats just me.

Snow melted. 37F this morning. Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off to Work I Went!

I'm always out from Mo-Fr.
Today (Shrovetide) we've got the afternoon free.
Webcam showed a lot of skier and overcrowded parking lots at the stations and indicated -11°C at 11 am and -10°C at noon.
Weather wasn't sunny as last weekend, but hazy fits better for winter times.
12:30 I packed my Kymco und went into the mountains, where winter retreats from global warming.
Ascent:

Parking:

Further walking ascent:

Tower on top:

I enjoyed it!
But when I was young, the snow walls beneath the street where several meters high and you couldn't see any signpost. I went to school with cross country ski several times as there has been virtually no road at all. Big rivers were frozen and there was no big plague of insects the next summer.

Forgive my ignorance but, where is Palatinate?

In SW-Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatinate
Ancient town Trier (Augusta Treverorum, founded 18 b.C., residence of imperator Augustus), historic town Worms (residence of the Nibelungen dynasty), US air base Ramstein and US-only town "Patrick Henry Village" and much more belong there.

Theres a great All you can eat Chinese buffett at Trier by the NH hotel on way of town down by the river

Me and Whitty stopped there and had posh room as far as I could see from web site was only way to get 2 beds .It had 2 big beds in basket of flowers fruit and choccys and his and hers bath robes and view of the river had good deal as booked direct on NH web site which is a spanish chain I think

We went into town for breakfast ended up riding thro market square while they were setting up the market