agreed but at the risk of being reprimanded for going off topic (as usual !)

yes,a much underrated composer

as for 'floating on honey' ? my equivalent would be swimming in a vat of Corbières whilst enjoying the finest of all symphonies,The Titan by Herr Mahler.....mmmmmm

I like that as an image? But what about a Rivesaltes dessert wine?

yuk !!!!!

it's 'orrible, too sweet for me just like Montbazillac - it's tastes like syropy sugar eerrghhhh !

as a confirmed 'rougeiste' I don't mind a nice smooth white or rosé but nothing too sugary..

ok,I know i'm a bit strange but I don't like honey either !

You probably won't like any of the Trockenbeerenauslese or Eiswein categorisations then.
(Just gently nudging back in the Deutsche Direktion)

no,far to sweet & syropy for my palate i'm afraid - I just need to look at a glass of the stuff and i'm 5kg heavier !!!

strangely enough i've never found the german people inflexible,on the contrary i've found them to have a similar outlook on life as the brits - I suppose i'm in the minority on this one ?

the french on the other hand are THE most inflexible group of people ! the french way is the best way and anything the grandfather a father did is good enough for the next generation in my experience

classic example is the groundsman at Perpignan,a council employee who had been instructed to water the pitch the night before as well as on the morning of a Catalans game (all games) without any regard to the weather conditions or any possible consequences - he did it because he was told to in his general orders - now that's what you call being inflexible ! - useless tool !!!

Not necessarily anything wrong with that, though.

Better than a 'do something for the sake of it' approach or as we're seeing in the UK at present with the NHS.

The groundsman probably had a little bit of German in him if he was 'only following orders.' The fatherland should have shown more flexibility when Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were knocking about. History may have turned out a little different.

true enough I suppose - apologies to the french for such a sweeping generalisation

Or Hitler (which I note she excluded, but wasn't sure whether or not that was on grounds of nationality or shame).

another notable exclusion has to be Pope Benedict XVI ?

as well as Jürgen Klinsmann...