it’s a mixture of rain and intermittent sunshine today…after a relaxed breakfast i finally sum up enough energy and take my trike for a ride to the local migros for the weekend shopping: it’s going to be oven-roasted fish with … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2003
braces, suspenders & a 104% cake from british airways (aka sweet option rotation 5)
breakfast today is a more relaxed affair than yesterday…mike has another go at the whsmith bookshop — alas, it’s not yet open. i find it rather ironic that for years the european (and the british press in particular) has been … Continue reading
an early start & a good dinner
we start rather early today…in fact, too early for the wykeham arms breakfast times: steve is going to pick us up at 7:45 outside the gate, breakfast is served from 7:30 on: so it’s just a quick tea, a yoghurt, … Continue reading
work & a quiet evening ;=)
after a couple of good cups of tea at the wykeham arms (and a good night’s sleep) we take a taxi to the lab. the weather is fantastic: clear sky and the sun illuminates rolling fields and woods south of … Continue reading
“welcome to london heathrow…”
groan: getting up early (6:30) is not much fun…we breakfast and make it in time for doro’s train. from the station i take a taxi up to the lab. a huge mail file awaits me (and this was just a … Continue reading
lunch in meersburg
today’s goal: lunch in meersburg. we get up at 7:30 and do manage to catch the 9:55 train to zurich, where we kill about 10 minutes looking at the swiss heimatwerk shop (very nice watches…hmmm…nice music boxes as well) before … Continue reading
germanisches national museum
today is museum day: after a leisurely breakfast we travel by train to nuremberg to visit the german national museum: quite an impressive building! after buying our tickets for EUR 4.00 pp we descend to the café — which actually … Continue reading
more books & a coffee & more pix
first real vacation day today! in the afternoon we decide to tackle the rain and the cold (summer has taken leave for sure for this year, it’s become rather chilly since the beginning of last week) and walk into town … Continue reading
an unexpected find
the goal for our sunday evening walk had been steinbach bräu …unfortunately, the erlanger beer trail had apparently ended there just recently and the rooms in the basement had been booked for a private event…no beer there walking back through … Continue reading
thalia p & e
after steam cleaning the living room windows we decided to call it a day (cleaning & renovation wise) and went into town. first stop: the new release of the p & e thalia bookshop at the hugo: very costly endeavour…
fat lady sings
having finished painting our sleeping room I was thirsty for a nice pint of Guiness. although, there’s one irish pub not far from our flat, we decided to try “the fat lady sings”: The Fat Lady Sings (Irish Pub) 91054 … Continue reading
colophon
flotsam, jetsam, lagan flotsam and jetsam are words that describe goods of potential value that have been thrown into the ocean. There is a technical difference between the two: jetsam has been voluntarily cast into the sea by the crew … Continue reading