Trip: Reconaissance mission - Deutschland Kundlicher Winterkurs 2007
There are [31] stories from my trip: Reconaissance mission - Deutschland Kundlicher Winterkurs 2007
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 10 Mar 2007 | Views [723]
sunshine. and hibiscus flowers. and the beach. but more than anything else, you guys. my disappointment at leaving germany and my ambivalence about being back in australia have been cushioned beautifully by the warm embraces, happy smiles and loving ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
GERMANY | Friday, 9 Mar 2007 | Views [811]
Australia = warmth, sunshine, easily accessible beaches, happy smiling friends and lecturers whose every word I can understand. I'm back, for now*, and i look forward to catching up with all of you really soon. As long as it's in an air-conditioned ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
SWITZERLAND | Friday, 2 Mar 2007 | Views [1213]
i have to admit a significant amount of my motivation to write this blog entry comes from my desire to add another country to that list on the right there - i'm SO easily amused. i really did go to switzerland today though, so it's totally justified.... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
GERMANY | Thursday, 1 Mar 2007 | Views [817]
You know what's fun? climbing hills of snow in shoes and clothes that are absolutely unsuited to cold, wet weather! that's fun! if you're an idiot! convinced that the light powdering layers of white i'd seen in Berlin and Essen weren't enough, Basti ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
GERMANY | Tuesday, 27 Feb 2007 | Views [705]
so the dream slowly comes to an end. i'm spending my last week in freiburg with basti, just relaxing and seeing a bit of the south. it's brilliant to just be still for a bit and it's really comfortable here with basti and his mum. i leave here on saturday ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
GERMANY | Tuesday, 27 Feb 2007 | Views [725]
yesterday i fulfilled one of my most important Germany-dreams. I went to the Beck's brewery. the mothership. the holy grail. the bedrock of my dreams and the purveyor of perhaps the finest beer known to man. i was so happy. I spent the weekend ... Read more >
Tags: friends
GERMANY | Thursday, 22 Feb 2007 | Photo Gallery
ans' last day in essen
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GERMANY | Tuesday, 20 Feb 2007 | Views [3751] | Comments [3]
Karneval
is this incredible celebration that happens in the area of germany
we've been staying in for about 3 months of every year. the culmination
is in february when the whole area positively shits itself if i may be
so crude and turns into the ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
GERMANY | Saturday, 17 Feb 2007 | Photo Gallery
you know what's fun? photos of other people being drunk and having fun!! yeeeeah!
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GERMANY | Thursday, 15 Feb 2007 | Photo Gallery
Berlin, which, apart from Herr Bayer, was all kinds of super.
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GERMANY | Thursday, 15 Feb 2007 | Photo Gallery
essen and surrounds
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GERMANY | Thursday, 15 Feb 2007 | Photo Gallery
photos for the sake of photos
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GERMANY | Sunday, 11 Feb 2007 | Views [728]
On the basis of Ellie's recommendation and our intense desire to spend the weekend anywhere but in Essen, Annabel and I decided to visit Hannover on our way home (to Essen) from Berlin (it's roughly halfway between the two). We were taken in by the ... Read more >
Tags: relaxation
GERMANY | Thursday, 8 Feb 2007 | Views [1104] | Comments [1]
because when i said i was dreading the other participants because i just knew they'd be an army of utter tossbags, you all said, 'now erica, stop being such a grumpy cynical tart, they could all be lovely.'. knowing that it was absolutely possible ... Read more >
Tags: People
GERMANY | Wednesday, 7 Feb 2007 | Views [672]
As a display of their apparently bottomless generosity, the DAAD took us to Berlin for a week. They paid for our transport, accomodation and breakfasts (!) and gave us an exceptionally well-informed tour guide who slowly but surely droves us all ... Read more >
GERMANY | Wednesday, 7 Feb 2007 | Views [1036]
After the non-stop
excitement of the London weekend, Essen greeted me with
more of the usual - pommes frittes and the felafel stand, freaks on the tram
and my increasingly messy room at the hotel ( a ripple of surprised gasps
tumbles through ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 30 Jan 2007 | Photo Gallery
London, Australia Day Weekend
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UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 30 Jan 2007 | Views [1501]
And so, what turned out to be a 3 day weekend in London came to a reasonably uneventful close. I spent the day wandering the city on my own, keeping a very diligent eye on my tube map and the myriad clocks around the city to ensure no repeat performances ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 29 Jan 2007 | Views [650]
Crossing items off my list of not-so-exciting-but-nonetheless-quite-normal-and-not-really-life-threatening-just-a-bit-of-an-inconvenience life experiences with an efficiency that borders on german, i have now taken care of 'missing a flight when i have ... Read more >
Tags: I should have known better!
GERMANY | Saturday, 27 Jan 2007 | Views [1083] | Comments [2]
Hey All :-) I got a hilarious and endearing email from my friend Scott today, which said (and I'm sure he won't mind me quoting him) words to the effect of - 'now look here, i did not save your blog site to my favourites only to have its desolate blankness ... Read more >
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