If I think closer, it was nothing automotive-related among my present. I only got a mail of a colleague the day before Christmas, tht he has found an old German license plate for my collection.
But I got two books, I'm interested in. One for better understanding USA-people and their way of thinking, annother about Poland and its citizens
@ford_guy: our Christmas had been nice and peaceful (although a plenty of my wife's family had visited us...), but we were so happy, that we don't have to go by car anywhere in the last days. Right now there is a strong onset of winter all around in Middle-Europe, incl. total collapses of the car-, truck-, bus-, train-, tramway- and plane-traffic
My brother-in-law and his family stucked for over 9 hours on the Autobahn from Berlin to the Ruhr-Area, caused by a heavy iced-rain. Minus 4 degrees plus rain - the whole area there was covered with 5 cm-thick ice, everything...