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Day out in Erfurt

I went to Erfurt with a friend, for a job interview; hers. She didn't get the job but I got a nasty cold.

Sassnitz at night

lighthouses, cornfields & 164 steps

So this is the day we went to Kap Arkona. By bus, which was a rather tiresome journey. The place was overrun with tourists, the weather was fairly nice though. We had our lunch while sitting on the concrete hatch of an old war time bunker and afterwards clambered up the 164 steps of the taller of the two lighthouses. I've been here before, but nothing is as I remember it. Or maybe I just don't remember very well.

Storm approaching

On our first night in Sassnitz, the local harbour festival was still in full swing.  They wanted to finish on a high note with a special fireworks display. Unfortunately a quickly approaching thunder storm didn't want this to happen. Of course we got wet on our way to the holiday flat. Kinda started a pattern there.

Seagulls in Sassnitz Harbour

One day I even bought a loaf of bread just so I could feed it to the seagulls.

Kreideküste Rügen

Stony shore

A different holiday day and a walk along a different beach...not much more happened. Well, I had coffee and apfelstrudel, alas no picture of it.

Holiday wildlife

These are cormorants...

Also the cormorant was the disguise used by Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost. Satan sat on top of the Tree of Life as a cormorant in his first attempt to deceive and tempt Eve.

Guess we scared them off.

Don't trust what you read on the internet.

On another one of our holidaying days we went to Kap Arkona, they have lighthouses there. Near to those was supposed to be the "traditional fishing village" of Vitt. Or so the tourist information website said. Traditional my ass. Only because they had some thatched roofs and only 72 inhabitants it was nowhere near traditional. When I hear traditional and village in one sentence, I'm inclined to expect something like the wonderful Kerry Bog Village. And that was definitely not what we found there. Motorboats, modern cars parked in neatly fenced in front yards. With ugly new metal fences. A shabby little cafe containing two grumpy employees that probably didn't get any new clothes or style advice since the wall came down and so on. I know moan, moan, moan, but honestly, this was definitely not what we expected.

Day out in Binz.

More holiday pictures, we took a trip on a boat from the small harbour town of Sassnitz to the fairly posh seaside resort Binz. What did we do there? We walked around, took lots of pictures and hand fed some sparrows (photos of these still to come). The weather was not very summerly for a day in Mid-July, but we still had some ice cream.

beach chairs and a girl's bum

more beach chairs

While on holiday...

...I've been annoying people with my camera, of course.

looking at the harbour from the hideous new bridge

running from the approaching storm

Dirty streets and weary feet

A not so short excursion into London's street art scene this past Monday with London Detours...

Peer Pressure

    
Exactly that...but maybe this will make me work on pictures a bit quicker in the future...hahaha.

Weggefährten mit Tackerklammern im Ohr...

...und Sicherheitsnadeln im Kopf.

Diese Zwei haben mich auf der Zugfahrt nach Hause bewacht. Irgendwo werden sie vielleicht gerade vermisst.

Erkenntnis des Tages

# 1 Das Gesamtgewicht meiner Einkäufe nimmt beständig zu. Heute waren es 30 kg. Danke lieber Drahtesel für die Unterstützung! (Vergessen habe ich trotzdem die Hälfte...)


# 2 David Bowie mit Bart geht ja mal sowas von gar nicht.

bahnbrechend

Die Deutsche Bahn. Wie lieben wir sie doch alle. Wer hätte nicht Geschichten von verspäteten, überfüllten, umgeleiteten oder ausgefallenen Zügen in enger Zusammenarbeit mit inkompetentem und unfreundlichen Personal zu erzählen? Ich dachte ja, ich kenne da auch schon einige, aber die letzten beiden Fahrten haben dann nochmal alles denkbare getoppt.

Freitag, 26.03.2010

Abfahrt LE, Gleis 14, alles prima, keine Hektik, pünktlich am Gleis, pünktlich in H. Kurze Rennerei zum Anschlussgleis. Fieser Schock beim Anblick des unverhältnismäßig vollen Zuges. Selbst ganz vorn stehen sie im Zwischenabteil.