The guy next door won't stop singing classic rock and the group kitchen is a total wreck...ah, so nice to be in Germany once again.
A couple of things I have a tendency to forget:
- travel approximates 24-hr high except your feet hurt
- just hearing English can be a really nice thing
- everything in Germany is clean, efficient, and timely. everything. you should see these people when something's not on time.
- euros spend like dollars but cost so much more
So far Stuttgart has been an extension of sorts of most Christine-and-Padi times. We dine in cheap eateries on mounds of tasty food, trek all over the city, dodge wankers in fast cars or maneuver train systems, and gulp down beer all the while appearing deep in thought, trying to look vaguely European and smoking cigarettes. We laugh like assholes at secret jokes and language misunderstandings. And at some point in travel you find those people from Kent State or some other appropriately midwestern venue and start talking about the latest political happenings or sports events. While it's tempting to keep up the expat thing, I am here for far too short of a time to spend it all as we did last night, watching the Bears game 6 hours behind and talking to Ohio guys and gals from the Army base next door. Does anyone in Ohio ever stay there? Jesus, it's like we're locusts or something. I just remind people I didn't vote for Bush and it's generally okay.
So tomorrow we get tickets to Alzey, which is purported to be 10 minutes outside of our "family home" or church...something like that. My mission from my mother is to find records of family members who lived there in Heimmersheim and may have emigrated. In German. Sounds good, huh?
Then we get a ride to Hamburg (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg) and check out the ports. From Wiki:
"Hamburg is situated on the southern tip of Jutland Peninsula, geographically centred (a) between Continental Europe and Scandinavia and (b) between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The city of Hamburg lies at the junction of the river Elbe with the rivers Alster and Bille and the city centre is beautifully set around two lakes, the Binnenalster ("Inner Alster") and the Aussenalster ("Outer Alster")."
So that should be fun...
Much love,
PH
PS: I've never heard so much Meatloaf in my life. There's like a 24hour Meatloaf station. Really forces you to ponder the intricacies of Meatloaf.
A couple of things I have a tendency to forget:
- travel approximates 24-hr high except your feet hurt
- just hearing English can be a really nice thing
- everything in Germany is clean, efficient, and timely. everything. you should see these people when something's not on time.
- euros spend like dollars but cost so much more
So far Stuttgart has been an extension of sorts of most Christine-and-Padi times. We dine in cheap eateries on mounds of tasty food, trek all over the city, dodge wankers in fast cars or maneuver train systems, and gulp down beer all the while appearing deep in thought, trying to look vaguely European and smoking cigarettes. We laugh like assholes at secret jokes and language misunderstandings. And at some point in travel you find those people from Kent State or some other appropriately midwestern venue and start talking about the latest political happenings or sports events. While it's tempting to keep up the expat thing, I am here for far too short of a time to spend it all as we did last night, watching the Bears game 6 hours behind and talking to Ohio guys and gals from the Army base next door. Does anyone in Ohio ever stay there? Jesus, it's like we're locusts or something. I just remind people I didn't vote for Bush and it's generally okay.
So tomorrow we get tickets to Alzey, which is purported to be 10 minutes outside of our "family home" or church...something like that. My mission from my mother is to find records of family members who lived there in Heimmersheim and may have emigrated. In German. Sounds good, huh?
Then we get a ride to Hamburg (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg) and check out the ports. From Wiki:
"Hamburg is situated on the southern tip of Jutland Peninsula, geographically centred (a) between Continental Europe and Scandinavia and (b) between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The city of Hamburg lies at the junction of the river Elbe with the rivers Alster and Bille and the city centre is beautifully set around two lakes, the Binnenalster ("Inner Alster") and the Aussenalster ("Outer Alster")."
So that should be fun...
Much love,
PH
PS: I've never heard so much Meatloaf in my life. There's like a 24hour Meatloaf station. Really forces you to ponder the intricacies of Meatloaf.
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