I had barely had time to unpack my bag from Paris before the Ancient Roman City was invaded by the Danes. It was a relatively peaceful invasion compared to the battles fought over a thousand years ago. BigBruv and his twin children, Northern Star and Big Lad, came to visit the Humble Abode.
The twins (9 [...]
Filed under: Denmark, Family on July 31st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
No trip to Paris would be complete without reference to Culture and Food.
Let’s start with the food. In retrospect, it feels like I ate a lot of salad. That doesn’t mean I ate salad a lot of times – I just ate a lot of salad. The first evening meal was a Goat’s Cheese and [...]
Filed under: France, Friends, Postcards on July 30th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Half an hour after my call to my mother in hospital, I had hastily packed a bag and was on my way to Paris.
Mais, comment? I hear you cry. Well, it all began as a bit of a joke.
Two years ago, my Australian friends spent five months on holiday in Europe (No, that’s not a [...]
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On my return from my jaunt, life resumed its normal pattern – at least for a few days. Observant readers may have noticed that my posts have not been particularly regular recently. As I said to someone who was trying to give me a free Sunday newspaper, “I haven’t got time to read about [...]
Filed under: Family, Translation on July 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I wasn’t expecting my journey home to be remarkable in any way. I had planned to fly home from Munich on the Friday to be back in time to put the finishing touches to a job I was working on with a team of two other translators and to do a bit of homework on [...]
Filed under: Germany, Postcards on July 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last September, I did not have time to visit all the museums I had wanted to see in Nürnberg. I managed to see one more while I was there this time – the Germanisches Nationalmuseum.
It was stuffed full of mediaeval treasures and some of Dürer’s works but rather than feeling I had three hours [...]
Filed under: Germany, Postcards on July 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am not a football fan by any stretch of the imagination but I was very interested to see one particular semi-final of Euro 2008.
Just before I set off on my trip, Germany had beaten Portugal 3 -2. Everywhere I went on my travels there were German flags hanging out of windows, from balconies, from [...]
Filed under: Germany, Postcards on July 17th, 2008 | Comments Off
The main purpose of my trip to Nürnberg was to meet an associate, S, with whom I have only corresponded by e-mail. We have worked on a few jobs together and have generally built up a good working relationship. When I visited Nürnberg last September, S was polishing up her English-language skills in Los Angeles [...]
Filed under: Germany, Postcards on July 17th, 2008 | Comments Off
The Lödgerin and I made another journey by train the next day. She was on her way to the Allgäu and my destination was Nürnberg. We waited for the train at Trier. There was an announcement to the effect that the train was delayed on its incoming journey from “foreign parts”. This made me [...]
Filed under: Germany, Postcards on July 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When the Lödgerin was living in the humble abode, we would occasionally go on an excursion. If neither of us had ever been to the destination before we would call it a Weltentdeckungsreise – a world exploration trip. Even though the country of Luxemburg* is only about 11 miles from Trier and the city [...]
Filed under: Germany, Luxemburg, Postcards on July 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment »