Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Tena Kotou, Tena kotou Tena kotou ka toa, kia ora. I have returned.
When I las left you I was packing up to head to the Netherlands. I spent a very enjoyable weekend in Rotterdam, researching my Theo Schoon book, partying and visiting art galleries. The three important places to visit ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
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Yesterday I took the S-bahn to Potsdam, a place as surreal as München, but for completely different reasons. Imagine someone took a handful of stage sets for a play by Moliere, and a handful of DDR Politburo-constructivist post-apocalypse concrete monstrosities (occasionally made tolerable by a bit of abstract sculpture or ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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The train ride to Augsburg is rather lovely – speeding through quaint Bavarian villages with their onion-domed churches (and ignoring the dirty great office complexes housing the German megacorporations that find them cheaper to operate from than the cities) that look as though they would be snowed upon if you ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
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Currywurst – this is supposedly a specifically Berliner dish, but is in fact just a sausage covered in a thick mess of curry powder’ DO NOT PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH.
Berliner Bank currently has the motto “Berlin ist spontanâ€. This is patently not true as in Berlin you need to ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Yesterday I spent the morning at the Oldenburg Museum of human and natural history. This is a swampy part of the country, so I finally got to see honest-to-god bog people. That is so cool! Also seeing bronze age artifacts and actually being somewhere where human (and specifically European) history ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
I am now in Oldenburg – a big town or a small city (depending on your perspective) which played an important part in the Thirty Years War is about as far North-West as you can go in Germany without falling the North Sea or having to learn Dutch. Actually there ...
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