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Hey!
I’ve now posted photos from Science Ball:
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and from Tim Freedman (lead singer of The Whitlams)’s gig at uni the other day.
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Check them, and others, out in the Photo Gallery.
I also got bored the other day and made a virtual reality tour of my room. Yes, I was really bored. But it’s still cool, so check it out!
Greetings from Strasbourg!
Paul and I spent most of yesterday on the train to Strasbourg from Berlin, arriving just before dinner time. We’re staying with a lovely family here that Paul lived with for a couple of months when he was working in the lab earlier in the year. This family seems to have people here all the time - their own children’s friends appear to live here, they often have students staying with them, there was a Member of the European Parliament here tonight, and, of course they have their own children who live here (occasionally).
And, if you hadn’t guessed, they have a computer here too. This is now the second time on my entire trip that I have been able to email you without paying for it by the hour! If you don’t remember, the first time was in Lyon when the computer timer just decided to stop.
It’s a nice feeling, but I’m afraid it doesn’t mean that you’re going to get a very long email. It’s just before 1am, and I need some sleep.
For my last night in Berlin, Frederick (the Swedish guy) and I went out to a Jazz club. The music didn’t even come close to the club I went to Munich, but it was still fun. I hate leaving all these people and places behind, but it’s still exciting to arrive in a new city every few days.
Strasbourg is beautiful, and as it’s coming up to Christmas, the whole city is lit up at night too. Last night I just spent wandering around, getting a feel for the city - it’s a small place, but there’s lots to see. I found one shop in a little side street (all lit up in the Christmas spirit, of course) that was decorated with lolly pops and other sweets. I took a photo, but you’ll have to wait a while before I can upload any more photos, since the computer here is Windows98.
Anyway, today for lunch Paul and I went to the “Christian Assumptionists”, who he stayed with for a while when he first arrived in Strasbourg. The lunch was fantastic (even if the prayers in French before the meal were a bit weird). We then went ice skating with a Columbian friend of his who lives here, and then went out for dinner with his supervisor from the lab! All in all, its been quite a productive day!
Anyway, it’s time for bed, so I shall be off.
Good night to all! (even though it’s only 11am in Melbourne)
SOOOOOO not happy!
Id just typed about a page and a half telling you all what Ive be doing in Lyon, and Freiburg, and I was about to get to Munich, but the stupid computer lost it all!
Hmm…. quick version?
Alright….. now… lets just give you a quick rundown of Freiburg.
I arrived, and had a bit of trouble finding the hostel… cause the tourist office was closed!! I finally managed to find someone back at the train station who helped me out, but I was worried for a while! In my room there was an Arabic guy who had been there for a while. He took me and an American guy around on a “City Tour” on my first full day there.
Remember me talking about the trams in Montpellier? Well, in Freiburg,they have the OTHER trams that we have in Melbourne… very weird. Natalia (my cousin) told me that Yarra Trams is run by a French company, which explains the French trams… I’m guessing our other trams are run by a German company?
Well, I’m in Munich now, and I’ll be heading off to Berlin tomorrow.Today I went to Dachau, where there is an old Nazi concentration camp (in fact, the FIRST and longest running Nazi concentration camp). It was the most depressing and disturbing place I think I’ve ever been. I think the part that disturbed me the most was after I walked around the museum, and looked around the grounds where they used to have all the rooms (with beds cramped up as close as they possibly could), I found this nice-looking “cottage” off to the side, which had some nice trees and plants and flowers around it. I assumed this must have been where Nazi officers stayed or something, until I walked it. It was the crematorium, along with their very own gas chamber. Lovely cheery stuff.
Anyway, on a more happy note, I went out last night! (yey!) When I arrived at the hostel, I met an Australian girl called Heather. I soon found out that she lives in Blackburn (a couple of suburbs away from me!), and that she’d just met another Australian guy in the hostel who lived in Templestowe. Very strange - three people who live within about 5-10kms of each other meet on the other side of the world! Anyway, Paul (the Templestowe guy) met this girl on the train that day who invited him to a curry/movie night for some group that turned out to be a left-activist protest group (like the people we have in Melbourne that do the WTC and M1 protests). They were really nice people tho, and they cooked a damn good curry! After that, we went out to an underground Jazz club that we’d found in the Lonely Planet guide to Germany. We’re planning on heading there again tonight, cause we only arrived 1/2hour before closing last night, and it was REALLY awesome!
Anyway, that’s all for now. I think I’ll send this before the computer goes crazy on me again!
I’ll probably say more when I get to Berlin!
Update: Photos from Munich
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