Bayreuth is very green
Jan. 5th, 2005 03:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theotherlexHello all, I'm still here and things are still great.
(On the possibly TMI level, I washed my pajamas yesterday.)
Herr K, on top of being strange, and a man who likes to make his point, is sometimes difficult to negotiate with. His teaching me how to play chess at the moment, and I better than I was six games ago, but him teaching me is a lot of him telling me that the moves I have made are dangerous and that I would be better off to make a different move. It's all very well, the games last longer, but he is then half playing himself.
I'm in something of a internet cafe at the moment, although it seems rather suspicious. The computer is certainly much faster than at the Ks'. Bayreuth is very pleasant. People are talking about the unseasonably warm five and seven degrees days. I'm in the city to buy tacky souvenirs (I collect them) and to eat Black Spaghetti Eis (chocolate icecream with chocolate sauce, which is make to look like black spaghetti) again, because we don't do things like that very much in Australia.
D had a gathering for New Year, and we were allowed to set of fire works. It was great fun. ViVA (the not-MTV music channel) played some great (that is to say, old and rather daggy) songs. And, of course, I did not get to hear Auld Lange Syne. And some of the people drank Absolute Vodka citron through mouthfuls of something a cross between sherbet and jelly crystals. But it was new year. So a happy new year to everyone. There still isn't any snow. It snowed a little when D and I were in Regensberg, and it is apparently snowing in the mountains. But there is no longer any on the ground.
On Sunday D and I had coffee with Alex and Alexander. And they got to complain about how much things cost, and reminisce about the good old Deutsch Mark. (In the hut where I had lunch with M, Frau S and Herr S, there was an old poster advertising things in ReichMarks). We organised to go bowling on Monday, which was fun. I was much better the third game than I was the first. But I couldn't find a light enough ball with large enough finger holes. I'm sure I sprained something.
D and I had dinner with the Semmelmanns in the french restaurant in Bayreuth last night. It was very pleasant. I had something like a Ceasar salad, but with tomato instead of parmesan, mayonaise and anchovies. Had a good discussion with Herr S about the state of the world. And I got to arange everything about staying in Heidelberg with M.
So tha plans currently stands at: On Sunday go with Alex to Cologne, where he studies. See Cologne, Bonn and Dusseldorf. Train back to Bayreuth on the weekend, and catch up one last time with D. Get the cheap Bavaria ticket to Munich. From Munich to either Stuttgart, or Karlsruhe to meet Jana. On Monday the 24. to Heidelberg, and see Speyer and Worms (and maybe Mainz), and Jana if I haven't already met up with her. The weekend with Marco in Heidelberg (he has to study for exams, but I can sleep on his couch). Then Darmstadt to see the Beuyse and Frankfurt. I thought I left on the Friday, but I actually leave on the Saturday. I arrive in Melbourne on Sunday night, so will need to be picked up from the airport, because I'm not doing public transport on a Sunday night.
Tonight D, Alex, Alexander and I are going to watch Alexander's copy of the extended version of The Return of the King. D got The Two Towers EE for Christmas, and we watched that last week. Faramir makes much more sense in the long version. I have enough German to follow movies quite well (we also watched Gladiator, and Frau K and I watch a soap opera called Forbidden Love), and also to pick up subtleties like when someone addresses another with the informal or formal 'you' and things like that. By the way, Germans don't use the polite form to address royalty, they use the plural. Which would distinguish between royalty and the President.
D has also made me promise to go out tomorrow night. It's Epiphany, Three Kings Day, and apparently the idea is to drink as much in one night as you will over the rest of the year.
I think that's all the news for the moment. I'm going to take some (more) photos of Bayreuth on the way to the tacky souvenir shop.
Cheers,
Lex.
(On the possibly TMI level, I washed my pajamas yesterday.)
Herr K, on top of being strange, and a man who likes to make his point, is sometimes difficult to negotiate with. His teaching me how to play chess at the moment, and I better than I was six games ago, but him teaching me is a lot of him telling me that the moves I have made are dangerous and that I would be better off to make a different move. It's all very well, the games last longer, but he is then half playing himself.
I'm in something of a internet cafe at the moment, although it seems rather suspicious. The computer is certainly much faster than at the Ks'. Bayreuth is very pleasant. People are talking about the unseasonably warm five and seven degrees days. I'm in the city to buy tacky souvenirs (I collect them) and to eat Black Spaghetti Eis (chocolate icecream with chocolate sauce, which is make to look like black spaghetti) again, because we don't do things like that very much in Australia.
D had a gathering for New Year, and we were allowed to set of fire works. It was great fun. ViVA (the not-MTV music channel) played some great (that is to say, old and rather daggy) songs. And, of course, I did not get to hear Auld Lange Syne. And some of the people drank Absolute Vodka citron through mouthfuls of something a cross between sherbet and jelly crystals. But it was new year. So a happy new year to everyone. There still isn't any snow. It snowed a little when D and I were in Regensberg, and it is apparently snowing in the mountains. But there is no longer any on the ground.
On Sunday D and I had coffee with Alex and Alexander. And they got to complain about how much things cost, and reminisce about the good old Deutsch Mark. (In the hut where I had lunch with M, Frau S and Herr S, there was an old poster advertising things in ReichMarks). We organised to go bowling on Monday, which was fun. I was much better the third game than I was the first. But I couldn't find a light enough ball with large enough finger holes. I'm sure I sprained something.
D and I had dinner with the Semmelmanns in the french restaurant in Bayreuth last night. It was very pleasant. I had something like a Ceasar salad, but with tomato instead of parmesan, mayonaise and anchovies. Had a good discussion with Herr S about the state of the world. And I got to arange everything about staying in Heidelberg with M.
So tha plans currently stands at: On Sunday go with Alex to Cologne, where he studies. See Cologne, Bonn and Dusseldorf. Train back to Bayreuth on the weekend, and catch up one last time with D. Get the cheap Bavaria ticket to Munich. From Munich to either Stuttgart, or Karlsruhe to meet Jana. On Monday the 24. to Heidelberg, and see Speyer and Worms (and maybe Mainz), and Jana if I haven't already met up with her. The weekend with Marco in Heidelberg (he has to study for exams, but I can sleep on his couch). Then Darmstadt to see the Beuyse and Frankfurt. I thought I left on the Friday, but I actually leave on the Saturday. I arrive in Melbourne on Sunday night, so will need to be picked up from the airport, because I'm not doing public transport on a Sunday night.
Tonight D, Alex, Alexander and I are going to watch Alexander's copy of the extended version of The Return of the King. D got The Two Towers EE for Christmas, and we watched that last week. Faramir makes much more sense in the long version. I have enough German to follow movies quite well (we also watched Gladiator, and Frau K and I watch a soap opera called Forbidden Love), and also to pick up subtleties like when someone addresses another with the informal or formal 'you' and things like that. By the way, Germans don't use the polite form to address royalty, they use the plural. Which would distinguish between royalty and the President.
D has also made me promise to go out tomorrow night. It's Epiphany, Three Kings Day, and apparently the idea is to drink as much in one night as you will over the rest of the year.
I think that's all the news for the moment. I'm going to take some (more) photos of Bayreuth on the way to the tacky souvenir shop.
Cheers,
Lex.
