Cancelled flights, lost baggage and snowstorms - but I'd still return to this city

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

“If you think about it, you’re basically doing your own version of Race Across the World”, my brother chirpily offered. “The only difference is that you’re on your own and stuck in one country.” An accurate summation of the predicament I found myself in a couple of weeks ago when heavy snowfall brought chaos to southern Germany, blocking air, rail - and even some road - travel.

I was visiting Bavaria’s capital of Munich for work and was initially quite excited about the prospect of visiting the snow-capped Christmas Markets.

Usually, the arrival of snow evokes a childlike glee in me. Rose-tinted glasses firmly on, a warm feeling rises within as those hazy memories of sledding with my dad or building snowmen on the playing fields next to school flood back in. READ MORE: ‘I stayed in the beautiful European city with the some of the world’s oldest Christmas markets - and there was even snow’READ MORE: 'I got to experience the real Lapland as they gear up for a record-breaking winter season' But when 40 centimetres (16in) of snow falls overnight it doesn’t just turn to sludge like it does here in the UK, it brings everything to a standstill.

You know it's serious when the airport - the second busiest in Germany - grinds to a halt and Bayern Munich’s latest fixture gets called off.