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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Land of Music: Vienna

First stop on the Danube: Vienna or Wien as wrtitten in German. It is of course the land of music, of orchestras, of balls, of fountains and gardens with opera singers and little chamber music, etc. It an expansive looking city and a tour in caleche is perfect to meet her. But, all in all, we were a... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Sex, Goggomobile and Rock'n Roll

Sex. Everywhere you go you can't escape it! Still in little Bad Wimpfen: How is Sex, Goggomobile and Rock'n Roll relevant to this cute little town? Sex: there was a wedding in town with the most incredible wedding vehicules I've seen in a long shot: two tractors; one red, one green, waiting at the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

A good peep-show!

Before I write about the other "little cities" I discovered during my memorable adventure on the Danube, I'd like to talk a bit about Bad Wimpfen. I know, I know I talked about it already but this I must share with you: I discovered yesterday the most amazing, funny, crazy, incredible museum I ever... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, July 11, 2008

Back from the Danube

Hallo All! I'M back! It was a good trip; we explored a lot of new places and, alhtough some of them were beautiful, we realised that we really prefer Germany to most other places that we visited! It is good to be home. The five nights on board with the kids went OK eventhough the average age of the... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Threw out the train!

NB: I know this is a very long piece but as I am going on a cruise tomorow and won't have access to a confuser, I thought you could reat it slowly while I am away. See you in 8 days! It was the castle today: took the train to Heidelberg, walked to the BergBahn(funicular), paid for the tickets, got... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Too hot even for Australians!

They finally arrived from Australia at around 15H30 instead of 8h30, a bit exhausted but not as much as we thought they would be. It turned out that part of Quantas' employees are on strike but the company didn't tell anyone before they left for Singapor. So, when they arrived in Singapor at around... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Where's that B... Plane?

We've been waiting since 7am this morning. Waiting for my Mann's baby brother and his family of 3 kids and the wiffy. It's now 11am and still no one's there. We finally decided to call the limousine service that is supposed to pick them up at the airport and learned that Quantas planes are late, 7... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, June 30, 2008

VIva Espana!

There were no singing or fireworks or car horns late last night. Dead silence after the lost. Yes, Germany lost 1-0 against Spanish and they deserved to loose! They played like "feet" (French expression meaning that they didn't play well at all! Quite appropriate in this case as it is of footbal... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Organisation Todt

I must make amend and admit that I made a mistake with the name of an organisation that I mentioned yesterday in my entry. Organisation Todt does not stand for org. Death but for the name of a man called Todt. It was an engineering organisation during the WWII in charge of building walls along... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

The Flohmarkt

I went to a Flohmarkt (floh is flea, so, yes it is a fleamarket) in Heidelberg today with a friend and the things you can find in these places are incredible. Of course, there are some people who have just rubish, junk that no body in their right mind would want, but others have real little... Sign in to see full entry.

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