It is Friday evening,  the roads around here are deserted and there are no pedestrians in sight. I ventured out to get some groceries on foot from the Asian market around the corner and even though the temperature reads -10°C, it felt more like -15°C, including the wind chill factor. Interestingly enough, the German language has no proper translation for wind chill factor (I have checked with leo dictionary) as a freezing wind is not the usual winter companion around here.

Our daughter has gone out for her usual Friday evening horseback riding lesson from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. For the most part of these three hours, they will be outdoors on open fields between Steinbach and Frankfurt. You could not even tempt me with a bonfire and mulled wine, well, at least not for three hours. She is scheduled to ride again tomorrow afternoon, we shall see.

The supermarket in our neighborhood was strangely quiet on this Friday evening when there are usually long lines of customers. I guess this weekend we all will be eating leftovers. Additionally, cupboards in affluent Germany are generally full anyway.

Oberursel, with view onto St. Ursula Church, taken 7 Jan 2010.

For more information about this blizzard forecast, visit BBC News.