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Friday, 9 Mar 2007 | Views [846]
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
Thursday, 1 Mar 2007 | Views [845]
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
Tuesday, 27 Feb 2007 | Views [731]
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
Tuesday, 27 Feb 2007 | Views [761]
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
Thursday, 22 Feb 2007 | Photo Gallery
ans' last day in essen
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Tuesday, 20 Feb 2007 | Views [3792] | 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
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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Thursday, 15 Feb 2007 | Photo Gallery
Berlin, which, apart from Herr Bayer, was all kinds of super.
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Thursday, 15 Feb 2007 | Photo Gallery
essen and surrounds
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Thursday, 15 Feb 2007 | Photo Gallery
photos for the sake of photos
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Sunday, 11 Feb 2007 | Views [762]
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
Thursday, 8 Feb 2007 | Views [1152] | 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
Wednesday, 7 Feb 2007 | Views [699]
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 >
Wednesday, 7 Feb 2007 | Views [1069]
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
Saturday, 27 Jan 2007 | Views [1132] | 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 >
Tags: Adventures
Wednesday, 24 Jan 2007 | Views [1017]
When I had fantasies of german men stroking me in darkened rooms, tying me up, pushing me into small spaces, MRIs and X-Rays were not what i had in mind. i need to watch what i'm putting out there... So the back saga continues. It's now little more ... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
Wednesday, 24 Jan 2007 | Views [2985] | Comments [5]
When I said I wanted to fully experience life in Germany, I meant it. Everything - including such titillating life situations as minor sinus infections and major back disruption as a result of falling down stairs. The former was taken care of nice and ... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
Friday, 5 Jan 2007 | Views [948] | Comments [4]
oh shoot - did i just make a war-related crack? you know what they say, ´don´tmentionthewardon´tmentionthewardon´tmentionthewar´... meanwhile i have a lecturer here who, no word of a lie, does the heel clicking salute thing because he thinks it´s funny.... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
Tuesday, 2 Jan 2007 | Photo Gallery
botanical gardens
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Tuesday, 2 Jan 2007 | Photo Gallery
shops etc
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