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Whenever I’m hanging out with a few of my American buddies, and the conversation veers towards girls, I wait for someone (I’m thinking of you, Paul Perry) to inevitably say, “Don’t European Girls have hair armpits? I don’t know how you could date them!” I simply stare in wonder and ask my friends what exactly they [...] I remember back when Panama was invaded and Manuel Noriega was holed up somewhere in a Church, the US Army blasted rock music round the clock in an effort to get him out. How odd and quaint, I thought at the time. But I’ve been on the receiving end of such music, both as a [...] I spent last week at my step-brother’s in Germany, and had a wonderful time. One of the things I like about Germany is how incredibly well run it is. Like an Apple Macintosh, things ‘just work’. The trains are a friggin work of art. You know what platform your train will arrive on months in [...] Tonight, in the Göttingen, Germany, I went to the local community theatre’s all-German-cast English speaking production of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, set in 1950’s Rock & Roll, USA. And to top it off, the lead female looked like a JAP. What a strange, strange world we live in. It was pretty good. And, being Germany, [...] When I think of England, it’s often through the prism of London, which is a wold-class city crammed with culture, excitement, and people. So it’s a breathtaking surprise when I find myself in the middle of the English Country-side. I spent yesterday and this morning at Bailey farm, a lovingly ramshackle collection of functional stone farm [...] Cheddar cheese apparently comes from Cheddar, England, or something like that. I’m not too sure, but my turophile friend Diana Pittet has a thing for Cheddar that exceeds socially-acceptable bounds for woman-cheese love. Hanging out with Diana normally just involves a passing mention of cheese, or even her pulling out a couple parchment-paper wrapped treasures that [...] Going through my photos, I remembered the party I was at in Berlin where I got so drunk I thought I saw a bunny rabbit hopping around the room. Especially surprising as I had only had 3 beers. No, it was really a bunny rabbit. That’s him, sitting next to an ominous bag of charcoal [...] This German cleaning product sure looks like it is meant to be held upside down and squirted into your toilet bowl. But no – it’s mouthwash, in a small ceramic bottle. Truly strange people.
I was able to spend four days snowboarding in Austria with friends, and flew into Germany a week early to see other friends in Berlin and Cologne. We stayed at snobby St. Anton in Austria, where our waiter insulted us for drinking ‘rain-water’ at the dinner table, despite the mineral water for sale was bottled only [...] |
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