The best time to visit Germany is summer season. When sun is shining above your head during months of April to September, Germany is an ideal place with mild weather and sunshine. Once you reach Germany, it is a pleasure and delight to explore place via a train. These trains take you from town to town providing you best of all amenities and an opportunity not just to explore interior but also enthralling outskirts of each city.

A Little about Cities- Berlin, capital city of Germany is a city full of life and passion that never lets your spirits down. Besides entertaining and unforgettable nightlife of Berlin there are other attractions too. The Brandenburg Gate and remains of Berlin Wall in Berlin sing saga of time of Second World War when Hitler reigned over Germany, are remarkable things to watch. While you are in Berlin be sure to visit Checkpoint Charlie Museum that throws more light on history of Berlin Wall and has a collection of relics related to unbeaten escape attempts across its borders. Apart from this you should also visit Germaldegaleire or traditional Picture Gallery that has an exotic collection of 13th to 18th century art.

The equation is simple. But is it real? If it was, then most northerly capital, Reykjavík, would also be coldest...at least until they establish a country on Antarctica. Yes, it appears that latitude is slacking off and failing to keep temperatures in line.

This was brought home to me when preparing for a radio interview in Dublin, Ireland. February had just roiled in and I was sitting back comfortably in my good old Ottawa, Canada weather, scraping icicles off my toes. I was giddy with excitement over our warm spell, which it was reaching a high of minus-5 (that's about 20-degrees American). I always ask questions day before an interview, to learn a bit about my audience, so I asked producer, "So what's weather forecast in Dublin?" asked.

"Oh it's horrible," she told me. "People are bracing for a deep winter freeze that's supposed to hit tonight. It might even get as cold as minus-5!"

This blew me away, that folks in Dublin would be worried about thermometer dips as low as ours spikes high. After all, isn't Dublin about same latitude as Ottawa?

Weather forecast from an atlas

I whipped out my trusty atlas. We live almost exactly on 45th parallel. If we lived exactly on it, we would have to share our bed with a cow and a dozen chickens across road – that's how close we are.