Bags. Finally.

The Bags Finally Showed Up

At last, like long-lost friends, our luggage turned up in Berlin.  In the same place we are.  Really.  Nice to see them.

After this I'm becoming convinced that airline alliances are really just a group of companies integrated enough to optimize profit but separate enough to be able to point the finger of blame at another "alliance" member.  "Seamless travel experience?"  Um, not if anything at all goes wrong.  Seems shady business the way they do it.

Today's Doings In Potsdam

After we changed hotels, we headed down to Potsdam and strolled the Brandenburger Straße, where the Christmas stalls are set up.  It snowed part of the time and it was really beautiful, even thought it was cold.

The lead-off to last night's newscast was:  "The whole of Germany lays in Snow-Chaos tonight!"  It really didn't seem that bad to create such a panic.  More is on the way, with high temperatures Thursday supposed to be only about 20F, much below normal.