12:10 — lunch at the seaview hotel, sitting outside in front of the hotel. the weather is quite sunny and, away from the wind, it's getting rather warm. we seem to have arrived just in time: a little bit later … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2006
fog-blasted, an encounter with the home guard, a surprise lift
after another good breakfast at northcourt manor, we are waiting at the bus stop right outside northcourt for the number 7 bus to freshwater bay. during the night we had fog moving in again and it has not really lifted … Continue reading
visiting the queen…
after a fantastic breakfast at chalon house we are off to richmond station (just a five minute walk, really), wait a little bit for the train to windsor & eaton riverside ("avoid delays" on the displays at the station), and … Continue reading
richmond: chalon house
21:00 we are in our room at chalon house — a very nice, large room with an equally nice large bath room (the bath itself is on a kind of raised platform). all very tastefully decorated (white and cream colours). … Continue reading
on the eurostar…finally
17:38 once we reached aachen, things took a slight turn south: due to onstruction work on the belgian-german high-speed link we got delayed by 25 minutes in aachen (ostensibly to let the thalys train coming from bruxelles through — but … Continue reading
action in frankfurt airport station
12:27 — we made our connection in frankfurt airport on time and are now in the ICE 14 to brussels. just as we had taken our reserved seats a siren started sounding outside the train in the airport station: all … Continue reading
erlangen–richmond…by train
09:51 — after an early start we leave a bit too early (my eternal fear of missing a train connection, yes, i know) and end up at erlangen station 20 minutes early time enough to buy newspapers…the train to nürnberg … Continue reading
weird books in the local bookshop
doro and i spent about an hour in the local thalia bookshop (i bought a small pocket bible, a digital photography with linux guide, a thriller and the latest cecilia ahern) — while waiting for doro to re-emerge from the depths … Continue reading
d2h.net: flotsam, jetsam & lagan
while searching for a certain wordpress plugin (which i've yet to find) i came across the Ultimate Gallery2 Slideshow — the result of which you can see on the left: a fading slide show of image selected from my photo selection. … Continue reading
IC2161 between stuttgart & nürnberg: an encounter with “duck face”
my first day of our vacation today i get up at 8:00, check email, drink a cup of tea, take a shower, then collect all the things one needs when going on vacation: underwear, socks, shirts, shoes, books, thinkpad, camera, … Continue reading
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front deutscher äpfel
just came across an article on spiegel online about the front deutscher äpfel, the german fruit front, a group of apparently peaceful activists against neo-nazis. they satirize the same old slogans (fortunately, wit and innovation do not seem to be … Continue reading
