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Name: mark
Country: United States
State: Idaho
Metro: Moscow
Gender: Male
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Expertise: Random Facts
Occupation: Student
Industry: Medical
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Member Since:
12/5/2005
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| I find this article to be very interesting. It is about Autism and Vaccines. Kind of like a Celebrity Death Match featuring Keannu Reeves and Tom Cruise. Oh ya...And Harry Potter DIES. | | |
| Well... It is sort of like running, in that is at a fast pace, but it is like walking, because you are walking and not running. Makes sense to me. HERE is how to learn what it is all about. HERE is where you can watch some of it. What I want to know though is how someone gets involved in race walking. In many sports, we run to be able to play that sport. So, by golly, you run to do a sport. This leads us to track, where you run as the sport. Who said, "Let's not actually run, let's walk instead"? So lets take track and slow it down and make it goofy. Is the process of thinking like this: I am a second rate runner, but I can still walk, therefore I am going to be a world class walker? You decide and let me know your thoughts. | | |
| We have been to all over Hungary, Vienna, Rome, Milan, and now in Paris since the last post. It has all been great except the Milan part. We never even meant to go to Milan. We just didn't realize that reservations are required in Italy for the train. We were almost stuck in Rome untill We found a late night train to Milan. There we managed to find the cheap seedy part of town and the dirtiest one star hotel room that we could afford. We managed to sleep a little and jump on anoth train without reservations and hoping we would not be kicked off. Thankfully we made it to Paris. We climbed the Eiffel Tower, this nearly wiped Amy out, found tasty Punjab Indian food, delicious croissant. Tomorrow we leave for Germany. We will be home next week.
I will tell more of our travel tails when we have access to our computer when we get home. | | |
| Mettman was great. SOme old town squares, churches, the Rhine river, 1/2 meter bratwurst at the Winachtsmarkt, and enjoyed fine German hospitality. We left Mettmann, near Dusseldorf, and drove to Munich. Bavaria is a very scenic place to drive. Here we found amazing sights, sounds, and smells. We drank Gluwien, Paulaner Beer, some very nice kaffee, ate more bratwurst, pastries, and saw Marion Platz, HofbrauHaus, Meunster Church, a cool schloss (castle), and the Bavarian Alps. Then we drove to Vienna. It was cold and foggy and bypassed it, we sill stop there later, and stopped in Sopron Hungary. It is quite a nice medeival city. We shopped and bought some souvenirs and more pastry and long coffee, sort of in the middle of espresso and an americano. I ate Goulash soup, pizza, and Soproni beer. We stayed at a Zeimer Frei, a room in somebodies house. It was funky but nice to see how people live in this part of the world. We drove to Budapest. More coffee, pastry and sights. We walked on a pedestrian street and then to an open air market. We ate Kolbasz, kielbasa to the US. We left because it was hard to see anything it was so foggy. On the way to Heves, we stopped in Holoko, a city that is a EU heritage sight. It is preserved like an old Hungarian town, very nice. We bought some pottery and a glass thing. We find ourselves in heves now. We saw Rob's school, the restaurnat in town and the BurgerMeister's, and went to Eger. In Eger we had more Goulash, wine and sight. The town has a Turkish minoretter. 97 steps, very narrow spire, and steep. On the way down I sleipped and fell down 20 steps. I managed to stop myself by the grace of God without major injury. But I cut my hand, strained my right quadriceps, and hurt my right knee. I feel like I got beat up. I hurt. Thank God for Palinka to work the pain away. We spent New Year's Eve at the Restaurnat in town. There was Palinka, wine, beer and some traditional Hungarian food. We danced to music, laughed and tried to talk to people that didn't speak English. It was an experience. Today we will see some more new sights, eat more goulash and pastries and enjoy our day. | | |
| Amy and I are here in Mettmann Germany. The road here was interesting.
We left Moscow on friday morning after taking care of some last minute business, such as cutting my hair and some U of I stuff. The drive to Portland was uneventful and we found amy's cousin's house easily being as how Amy lived there for almost a year. Dinner and breakfast with the cousin's family was great.
Jordan took us to the Portland airport where we met Jesse and Elise Kern, who was there to pick up her brother, and had some coffee and laughs, a good way to pass the time.
Our flight was direct from Portland to Frankfurt on Luftansa, about 10 hours in the air. Let me tell you. Luftansa has some of the best service available. The food was also great.
My dinner was Chicken, couscous, squash, green beans, side salad, sourdough roll, and a brownie. Amy's was similar but was tortellini instead of chicken and the sides. To drink we had the normal soda and what not and also red wine, white whine, beer, italian soda, and gas water. I choose to drink the red wine, and lots of it. Amy stuck to the tomato juice and some water.
For our entertainment we had the opportunity to watch 'Flicka' and 'the Breakup'. I don't recommend either.
Then they served lebkuchen, a chocolate covered spice cake-sort-of-thing-in-the-shape-of-a-pretzel. Very nice.
To make everyone fall asleep they served Brandy or Bailey's, also very nice, but neither made me fall asleep. I slept a total of half an hour on the plane, Amy just two. Jet lag is over now that we slept normal hours last night.
In the morning they handed out hot towels to clean our face and hands. Breakfast was eggs, potatoes, fresh fruit bowl, sourdough roll, coffee, tea, oj or apple juice.
We then coasted in to Frankfurt. Luftansa comes highly recommended from me. Great service will calm you and allow you to get to Europe feeling pampered. My only advice is don't get seated behind a man with a giant head so that you can't see the television. Also don't get seated behind said 'giant head man' who has bad gas. I don't think that anyone will understand how bad this gas was. It was so powerful that when I left and walked down the aisle for a stretch and came back, I almost fell over. It was so bad that while Amy was asleep and I was awake, I smelled it, and just at that time, Amy bolted awake and made a very sour face. I think we did not sleep mainly because of his gas.
In the Frankfurt went through customs ease and then down to the railstation. We man handled the German rails and handled our two transfers easily. First class trains are the way to go: Quiet, clean, and large seats.
In Mettmann, now we eat well, walk to the town square, really more of a circle around the old church and laugh with Amy's parents.
Jealous yet? Well soon you will be because we will go to Munich soon.
This keyboard is funny because the 'Y' is in the wrong place. It is where the 'Z' usually is. This doesn't sound like much of a big deal until you start typing. Count the Y's in this post and you will realize what this is like.
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