When she naively assumed the video was of me, I chuckled and told her that no, this person was merely my student...
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Tincup should have known, cause there was not a basket on the front of the bike with 17 hens sittin in it.
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My student? My foot! Or do you fix bikes or do filming?
Nicely done - brings back memories - I traveled that route in the 70s. No, not on a bike! I hitched - some might consider that dangerous - wouldn't do it now, but it went off without a hitch, so to speak.
I remember 250 bagpipes going down the street in Edinburgh playing together - that's a bigger sound than an organ playing at its fullest!
I remember a giant vegetable contest in Aberdeen - I think the giant lettuce won...
I remember everyone saying we were going oot an' aboot.
Skye was a beautiful foggy island we walked around on a bit.
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Robin, they say footer aboot, for mess about like this gent is doing on the bike.
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Glad to see you finally showed up, Tincup!!
Nah, I don't fix bikes or do filming. I just wanted to make TC laugh (or gasp!) a bit - I thought she needed it!
Sounds like a great trip, Robin. I hiked around Europe for 2 months, away back when. Did a little hitch-hiking but mostly rode trains. Those were the days, huh! Great memories.
MDW, how do you know they say "footer aboot"? Tell us your story...
Oh, and MDW, I want to tell you, everytime I read your signature line, I cry. Very beautiful. Touches my heart. Thank you.
Hugs to you all, my friends! And a special hug to TC today!
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Ok, we'll take a photo of TC on the bike at midnight with the rainbow and pot o' gold, please - footer aboot...
17hens, weren't those the days - where did you go? We were free then - I used to wish I could bottle up days for future use - well, maybe today is one of them - I loved almost every minute of it - went most everywhere btn Iceland, Morocco and Turkey -
Was able to cover a lot of territory with the student eurorail passes. And trains were cheap in some places - like a buck an hour.
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Hens LOL. tell you a day when we sit and chat at my hame(home) or your's, at gloaming (dusk) or by haugh ( meadow by a river), drink cup of tea and fill the belly with ****-a-leekie (chicken and lentil soup). ahh! and bannocks for after dinner.
Yes, thank you. my signature line is my daily reminder.
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Robin,
Hmmm, let's see.
On that trip the highlights were: London, Brugge, Paris, Marseille, Strasbourg, Venice, Gimmelwald & Lake Thun area, Vienna, Innsbruck, Rothenburg, Garmisch area, Munich, Wurzburg, Amsterdam...oh, my, i'm feeling suddenly ancient...and boring.
That trip is what led me to be a travel agent, when I grew up. Couldn't stop exploring!
Isn't Iceland amazing? I've only been as far "east" as Prague, but never to Turkey or Morocco - wow!
Do you ever read Rick Steves' website about his travels? He's the 'Europe Through the Back Door' guy. I read it when I'm feeling caged in.
MDW,
YES!! A day when we sit and chat!! I'll be there!!!
OK, answer me this, is American English your first language?
Do you know "keep her lit?" A lymenet friend of mine taught me that one. Very appropriate for us here I think. I like it.
Keep her lit, Friends!
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I saw most of those places - did you keep traveling then as a travel agent?
Don't think I read the book - I studied some before the trip and then just went everywhere.
So many different lifestyles! Like in Italy, everyone at work went out for a leisurely dinner together and then just kept working into the night - my style!
Morocco and Turkey are very different than the rest of Europe, except for Moorish influences in Spain.
The markets were pretty fascinating. Also lots of hand-done crafts like outdoor pitholes filled with various colored dyes for dipping cloth into. Burros going by, laden with goods. So much decorative design everywhere - quite beautiful and spacy!
Everytime I met someone, we had to sit down for tea with lots of mint leaves stuffed in the glass.
Out more in the more rural area, oxen in the fields for plowing, and not always was there electricity.
Little boys around five years old all want to be your tour guide in Morocco. They spoke six languages! Count 'em - Arabic, English, Spanish, French, Italian and German.
Someone from the hostel stole my smaller pack with all the gifts I had just bought. We knew who had done it. All the boys jumped on the buses. I don't know how they did it, but they found the guy in Madrid, and my stuff was mailed back to the states! Ain't that an amazing Moroccan story?!
Anyone else here done some international traveling?
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hens... I was born in Southgate California. Ummm.... Keeprlit means.... Keep the party going! Irish slang.
Off to church chat later.
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Hey, MDW, I was born in Santa Cruz, CA!!! We have more and more in common, don't we!
My Irish friend told me it means "keep going, don't give up." That's why I thought it was appropriate for us - not because I thought lyme is a party!
Robin, yes I did! Loads of great memories! In fact, when things get bad, our (hubby & me) favorite thing to do is think about past adventures and plan the next one (way off in the future of course)!
I travelled a lot as a kid too. Most summers, my mom and I would go to Germany to visit her family.
My dad was a school teacher and the summers he wasn't working his summer jobs (by my later highschool years), we'd travel around the country in his 67 Chevy Pick-up. We travelled on a teacher's salary but we sure saw a lot of the country that way. I'd been to 38 states by the time I graduated highschool.
We'd wash off in creeks or he'd fill a 5 gallon bucket w/ water and slowly pour it over our heads so we could wash our hair. (Mom mom loved it - NOT!)
One time we were driving thru Vegas and he decided to stop and get gas and then thought he'd heat up some leftover chicken & rice (wrapped in foil) on the hot engine. Problem was we all forgot it was there until the "Big Explosion"! He found chicken, rice and foil for the next 2 years under his hood! That's a good memory...
"Little boys around five years old all want to be your tour guide in Morocco. They spoke six languages! Count 'em - Arabic, English, Spanish, French, Italian and German."
Wow!! I love languages so this just intrigues the heck out of me!
"Ain't that an amazing Moroccan story?!"
I've heard too many kidnapping stories to have any desire to go to Morocco, but that is REALLY a great story! I never would've guessed something like that would happen! Fantastic!
Markets are great, aren't they? One of the best ways to find out what the "residents" are all about. The best markets I've been to were in Amsterdam, hands down!
This is a fun conversation
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Me too, born in S CA - my earliest memory is of sitting in a Disneyland teacup - very big, to me - maybe that's why I became such a dizzy traveler...
MDW, have you been in Ireland and Scotland?
I've forgotten the phrases that folks used to keep the party going - but they were said alot - for example, Australians and New Zealanders usually traveled for 2-3 years before going back and had expressions for keeping the traveling going.
That's the kind of folks I met at the Icelandic hostel at the beginning of my trip, when they were returning.
That's funny about chicken and rice under the hood - how'd you like to see the look on a car mechanic's face if you had to bring the car in for something...
A German story for ya - I didn't speak German, so my friend and I were kinda guessing there. Our driver kept saying a word and we looked it up in our dictionary and kept coming up with "key."
Didn't make much sense as we took a very cute ride along tiny winding roads as he delivered baby products to homes in quaint little villages.
Finally he drives up to a huge castle and says the word, in an exasperated tone of voice, like "what's wrong with these people?!" Evidently we mixed up the word for castle and key - schloss, schleusel - sp?
It was a youth hostel in a giant ex-castle, one that you could even explore around in - fabulous - it was right next to the Rhine where we all sailed down the next day.
Actually, a lot of hospitality went on in Morocco, as in all places, if people were open to it. Another thing there - once when I was visiting a family, they all made sure I ate first.
Yes, markets were always so much fun to get lost in -
Here's one for the midwest - we were traveling by car through Indiana and stopped off at a cornfield stand -
and there I saw the strangest lookin' cat - it walked in front and hopped in back - with a real short tail - they told me it was a cat-rabbit, and that there had been another one as well!
I petted it and indeed, its fur was catlike up to behind the shoulders, then it got much softer like a rabbit's. Its miaow was very short, more like a quick mi-eh.
So what's the verdict? A real cross-species? I think so. Hanky-panky in them thar cornfields...
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Now I'm a rabbit lover from way back...and I don't believe in cabits, sorry.
My guess is the cat got hit by a car (that's why his hips were hoppy) and after his reconstructive surgery, which included rebuilding his larynx, his hair grew in softer.
No rabbit in its right mind would want to fool around with a cat!
You have great stories, Robin! Schloss and Schleusel? That's great! I bet that the driver is telling that one to his grandkids every holiday!
I have a terrible memory for things like that. I mostly remember smells and skies, pictures in my head and how a place felt. Probably the bugs have eaten most of my brain.
One great trip I went on as a travel agent was on a large yacht exploring the fjords of western Canada. It was an amazing trip!!! Fresh caught salmon every night for dinner, touching waterfalls from the deck (the ship was so small it could pull right up in the spray), getting so close to a bear and her cubs that we could hear her growl.
One night, we went thru a storm and every single person on the ship (99 people) was terribly ill except me and the captain - and I was 4 months pregnant!!! I was so proud of myself!
But the next morning when all the starving people were beginning to devour their scrambled eggs for breakfast, someone at my table started pouring ketchup and I had to make a run for it!
Yes, MDW, have you been out of California and Georgia? Tell us!
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Hens, Sure you are not a sister of mine? lol I so have enjoyed the stories, 67 chevy I can visualize that one and the chicken and rice.
Robin and hens, here is a short memory lane. umm I do not understand German speaking but this song is so bonny. And yes hens and Robin I have been all over the place with my many travels as a child and as an adult. So many memories to keep up with. I try and leave them in the past. But...
Do keep the stories coming, I am enjoying the smiles it brings me.
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I enjoy your stories so much. Coming to my mind: Me and my friend hitchhiking through Ireland in 1970 - we being hippies. At night, after long, dusty travelling, we stayed in hostels and for sure every night to our amazement we saw at least one backpacking American girl with curlers in her hair - even in the remotest moorlands.
By the way, 17hens, Santa Cruz is where I got my lyme...
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When I was in college,,,eons ago, there was this young cool in love couple that biked and backpacked across Europe one summer.
Most interesting story I can remember was this little French man that propostioned BOTH of them for the night.
I feel real uncomfortable when I dont speak same lanquage. But I love to travel. So much of even the USA I havent seen.
I have a young grandson who refuses to go on a vacation cause it takes too long to get there. If its over an hour ride he gets ants in his pants.
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MDW - I have never been to Dresden, but after that video it's on my list! It is absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing!!
kadee - you got your lyme in Santa Cruz? My jaw is on the floor. I'm sorry we gave you such a welcoming gift. For the record, I NEVER had curlers in my hair!
Don - He propositioned BOTH of them? THAT is funny! Your grandson is missing out! Maybe he'll change his mind as he gets older.
It's nicknamed Snow White's town as the legend came from here. The old castle at the edge of town (where my mom was working in the office when she met my dad)http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7yT9Rx2QAGRxf_3nxb-1kg is now the Schneewitschen (Snow White) Museum. They serve a shot of schnapps when you walk in the door - nice museum, huh!
I remember when I was about 10 years old, in the mid 70s, looking out the window of my Oma's living room onto the main street of town. In an hour I'd be lucky to see one car. The rest were horse drawn wagons. It has changed so much in such a short time.
One of my favorite memories is of riding our bikes up the Main River about an hour or so to a trout farm.
When we'd arrive, the fisherman would catch us trout out of the stocked pond. And the cook would wrap them in foil along with onions, mushrooms and some beer, and throw it on the grill.
In about 20 minutes, the waiter would bring them to your picnic table and we'd eat our fresh caught, fresh grilled trout. Melt in your mouth wonderful!
Then we'd get on our bikes and ride home. Of course, we were starving when we arrived home an hour later!
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Talk about fish, I had some tonight! I marked it catfish when I froze it, but I do believe it was rock fish.
And with it, I had a big big yam. And a nice salad.
And french apple pie- without the apples. (Allergic to apples- so I ate- nibbled actually- around them.)
So what is a french apple pie without the apples?
French.
Now I can talk foreign with ya'll. Ain't that special!
quote: I remember when I was about 10 years old, in the mid 70s, looking out the window of my Oma's living room onto the main street of town. In an hour I'd be lucky to see one car. The rest were horse drawn wagons.
Are you sure, 17?
This is where I grew up in the fifties, 70 miles away is my hometown. No, we had no horse drawn wagon - we had a Ford 17!
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TC, I bet you didn't think you'd provoke all this discussion when you asked 17hens a simple question!
So, if you're now speaking French, then you had some poisson tonite - (pwa-sohn) - and no pommes -
MDW - nice youtube tour of Dresden - if you've traveled that much, how about a favorite story or two of yours?
kadee - that's funny about the curlers - not me - I went au naturelle - and I got Lymed in Big Sur, next to Santa Cruz -
Just Don - you said you like traveling - so, mostly in the US, then?
17hens - beautiful town! A lot of it does look like a fairytale or like Disneyland!
Re speaking the languages - we either did or didn't - even English is spoken so many different ways -
I remember a night in a hostel, eight of us in the room, each from a different English-speaking country - we laughed all night long, trying to understand each other, and that was English -
US, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, S Africa, Australia and New Zealand. We all had different words for everything. A flashlight was a torch somewhere. Gas was petrol. A truck was a lorrie. Eight different terms for beach thongs, etc.
Then in the rest of that wild world, I remember like going into Hungary, REALLY not knowing any words,
so I got a simple translation dictionary for the fun of it and decided I would practice using it with the next lively folks I found -
which happened to be...three guys in a manhole who were doing work there - they looked up at me looking down at them, I got out my dictionary and started practicing with them. I recommend it.
In Italy, I spoke French until I learned some Italian - the nouns, basically. One day someone came to visit us who was from, of all places, Palo Alto CA - yay -
she explained the ins and outs of the 15 political parties for TWO hours to me -
yes, it was complicated - the students went after the police in one city, and the police would retaliate in another, everyone was from a different political faction,
and everyone running from each other, down the street, don't go that way today kind of thing - even where I was staying, in Rome - and I wanted to know what was going on!
Afterwards, my Italian hosts said to me in French that their friend said I was very intelligent and had followed the conversation quite well - and they were staring at me quizzically, like how could that be?
And all of a sudden I realized what I must have sounded like in any other language, and laughed my head off! Still, it's nice to be able to speak a little of another one or ones, I think.
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quote: 17hens - beautiful town! A lot of it does look like a fairytale or like Disneyland!
Yeah, sure! They studied and copied Disneyland when they started designing all these old fashioned pittoresque German villages with horse drawn wagons.
I wonder why so far Disneyland hasn't claimed any copyright law suits yet.
And WOW, you must be one of the very rare samples of US-citizens, who come to Europe and stay in one location more than one day without getting bored. Usually it's London, Paris, Rome (not to forget the beautiful Rhine) etc. in 10 days.
quote: kadee - that's funny about the curlers - not me - I went au naturelle -
quote: For the record, I NEVER had curlers in my hair!
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Speaking of au naturelle,
When my friend and I decided to make a backpacking trip to Europe, I informed her (in my 19yo wise mind) that in Europe the women don't shave. So if we wanted to blend right in, we'd need to stop shaving...everything.
So we get there with bear-hairy legs and pits you could pet. And 1/2 way thru our trip, it suddenly dawns on us that the only European women who didn't shave were older aunties and Omas, exactly the women I had based my opinion on.
All the young women had hairless legs except us! It was the new fashion then to shave your legs!
But that was OK. We were so proud of our hair by then, we didn't shave even when we got home until our bosses "mentioned" it to us! (My friend worked in a doctor's office and her long hair stuck thru her white panty hose! Yuck!)
kadee - I'll check with my mom about the horse and wagons. maybe I was 6 or 7 instead of 10, but I remember noticing the lack of cars. I'm sure the rest of Germany was updated, but mom's hometown, for some reason, was not! (And that was wonderful!)
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Tincup!!!! I'm so glad you're here!!!! Such a wonderful dinner without me? You shoulda called!
So now that you can speak French, does that mean you're going on vacation? Huh? Cause you need one, sister!! Maybe just a weekend to the shore?
Take care of yourself, TC. You're no good to anyone if you're all worn out!
And speaking of French... did I ever tell you about the time I tried my hand at French? In France?
I had taken 2 years of French in college and thought I was ready. On this trip, I was with my dad, my brother, and my boyfriend (now my hubby). It was bf's first trip out of the country and I wanted to impress him with my international suaveness.
So we're driving around, I think near Strasbourg somewhere (near the German/Swiss border) and we're lost. So dad says, "Hens, (yes, he calls me Hens - NOT!) see that elderly lady sitting on the bench over there? You ask her how to get to the train station."
So we drive over to her and roll down the window. Me, using my English/French dictionary, asks her for directions, "La gare?" (see, very simple!)
She goes off on this 10 minute explanation with me staring at her like a deer in the headlights. Didn't understand a single word. But when she finishes and we start to pull away from the curb, I smile and wave, calling to her, "s'il vous pla�t! s'il vous pla�t!" Suddenly she's giving me the deer in the headlights look.
My dad starts asking me for the directions she gave and my bf is asking me why the lady looks suddenly confused... I don't know!! Why would she look confused when someone yells "please! please!" instead of "thank you!" I was sooo snagged! I never tried to speak French again on that trip...merci. (Darn it, NOW I get it right!)
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quote: kadee - I'll check with my mom about the horse and wagons. maybe I was 6 or 7 instead of 10
17hens, I was just kidding. Might as well be, like you described, because Lohr was probably a small rural village at that time. May be the wagons had even cows pulling them as far as I remember having seen.
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I speak French too
When they ask if I want fries with that?
Other than that,,,NOT!!!!
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Ok, Just Don - we start your French lessons now - the French word for No is Non, as in Other than that,,,NON!!!! (pronounced like No, with a slight hint of an N at the end)
And your name would be Seulement Don (Sul-mon, accent on first syllable)
Reminds me of another trick - whenever you're in the presence of someone who speaks Russian, try saying this - I'll write it phonetically:
Yonny Ponny My you - accent on each capitalized syllable - practice saying it quickly -
It means "I don't understand a thing" in Russian - but because we get good at saying it really quickly, they think you do, and usually start speaking Russian to you - oh well, makes me laugh -
kadee - yes, in general, I was very happy to spend multiple days somewhere - so much to see -
but there was one instance where I had only two days to travel - from the tip of Yugoslavia up to Edinburgh in Scotland, since I had purchased tickets prior to the trip for the Edinburgh festival -
I took the fastest travel run I've ever taken - started in an open boxcar train at 7am going up through Yugo, then train through Germany, arriving in Paris at 11pm, a quick nite of sleep - and none of us understand what a bidet is -
out at 7am for a train to the coast, boat trip, train to London, and immediately another one up to Edinburgh, promising myself I would return and SEE those places again!!!
yes, I wonder too how medieval Europe could foresee 20th century entertainment tourism.
Ok, I just did a little research - the Sleeping Beauty Disneyland castle was based on (don't tell them, we know they copied us) the Bavarian Neuschwanstein castle, which means New Swan Stone Castle, as compared with Altschwanstein castle, where they only had old swans.
Says it was built for only one occupant, Ludwig II, as his retreat house, but he didn't last long, and it was opened up for sightseeing even then...
Hens, good tales - speaking of hens, a group of us once were watching an elderly woman in Yugoslavia cut up greens on a stone wall - and we were looking at her, kind of like don't you ever use a plate for food prep -
she caught our look and started laughing, and pointed to the hens behind her - the greens were for the hens, not her!
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"And your name would be Seulement Don (Sul-mon, accent on first syllable)"
Sounds like "Soul Man Don" to me!! Do you likey? Yes or No, Soul Man Don (and you must answer in French!)
Some of my favorite places (something to look at when you're really bored)...
http://www.gimmelwald.ch/en/index.htm To get to this Swiss town of Gimmelwald you must ride a gondola up the mountain, (there are no cars only chickens and cows on the path) and the only way to leave this town is to hike 2 hours UP the mountain and take a fanicular down to the valley. I stayed in the youth hostel here, but one of Gimmelwald's B&Bs has you sleep on a hay pile in a barn! I wanna!!!
http://www.romantischestrasse.de/showpage.php Watch the video of the romantic road of Germany - my mom's town shows the parade of snow white & the 7 dwarfs but my favorite place is the town shown from above looking down on its red roofs. This is Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
http://www.letroubadour.info/ And here is my aunt and uncle's B&B in the south of France. My aunt is a professional chef - meals are wonderful there!
kadee - forgive me, I'm slow - I'm just now catching on to your wonderful sense of humor!! Your first car was a Ford and Germany copied Disneyland's castles Du hast eined sehr guten Humor! Ein bisschen Sarkasmus auch!!
Robin, I LOVE your stories! Tell more please!
Still waiting for one, MDW!
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Gee, Don, maybe you have a natural affinity for German - or maybe England or Scotland or Russia, because they all have River Dons -
If anyone feels like traveling, click on the links provided by 17hens, Lymenet's official tourguide -
Your comment about the gondola up the mountain, funicular down reminded me of...the water elevator in the south of England somewhere near Plymouth -
Yeah, I know, not as spectacular as what you've posted here, but still very interesting, as in Why didn't I think of that?
If you're at the top of the cliff, and want to go down to the water, the folks at the bottom let the water out of the adjacent twin elevator, and down you go (your elevator's water is underneath).
When you want to go back up, the folks at the top put the water back in the bottom of the twin elevator and up you go. I was fascinated - I rode it a couple times, like, do it again!
Now, I haven't talked yet about how to stretch out a trip, besides the fact I was of student age and had student discounts.
The secret is: to find cheap lodging. So in London, I found out about a place near King's Cross that rotated its daily activities.
From midnight to 8am, it was a hostel. From 8am to 4pm, it was a karate studio. From 4pm to midnight, it served tea. More like tay, as in Would you like a cupoftay? And with scones with clotted cream and jams to boot.
The cost of the night's lodging: 75p, meaning 75 pence, which was worth $1.25/night back then, in the 70s. That's how to see London for a month!
Second example of cheap lodging: the Shakespeare and Co bookstore in Paris. You go to Paris knowing about it and planning to crash there, for free, as it had like a dozen beds upstairs.
It's across from the Notre Dame cathedral, in the student Latin quarter, by the Seine river. Need I say picturesque? Mais oui.
So... I lasted three weeks there. It happened to be around Thanksgiving time. I remember when all the Americans staying there went out in pairs, each pair committed to finding one item of a thanksgiving meal, sorta like an American treasure hunt in Paris -
and we managed to do it too - we found the turkey (dindin) and the cranberries (Fr?) and yams (Fr?) and mashed potatoes (pommes de terres) and pumpkin pie (Fr?)- we were very proud of ourselves as we ate that meal.
So...what drove me out of there - another case of the bugs - I went to the American Hospital in Paris and got 10 prescriptions of Qwell for all of us who got scabies there! And if you don't know what scabies feels like, I don't wish it upon you to find out!
I fled out of there, trainbound for Amsterdam, and sprayed myself and my belongings yellow next to a canal there - got a lot of weird looks from passerbys!
One parting remark about the Shakespeare and Co bookstore - normally people do chores there in exchange for free lodging. Only that year, the owner was on sabbatical in S America, so no chores.
A couple years later, my sisters managed to end up in Paris. They tried to convince the owner he had met me, and finally he said yes, he remembered me, to get them off his back. I told them later we had never met!
And I'm not the only nut case in my family - one of my sisters took a tram ride up Mt Blanc, met a climbing crew who had just finished climbing it, so she joined their group picture, wearing a helmet and holding a pick and looking very proud of herself!
There, that's more stories for you, 17hens!
Now, MDW, ONE story??
And Kadee, where are you in Germany?
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One story. In Dundee Scotland there is an ice arena...huge! Ice skating is not the same as roller skating. They play disco music with lights and all. wine prior to this play.... with a few drinks in me I thought it would limber the legs a bit you know like have a few drinks before you get on a dance floor.... wrong.
I spent more time on the floor than dancing like John Travolta.
Hens here is a word for you... Cheers which means.. Good health to you! or in gaelic it is said this way... slainte mhor agad! ( say it all together without a pause)
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Now you know gaelic too? OK, I'm stumped. But I thank you for your ONE story! I hope you wore waterproof pants!
Great stories, Robin! It made me think of a few more to share, but it'll have to wait. I'm late for a date!
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Hens , don't be confused I cannot speak gaelic, only the one line. I believe Gaelic-speaking is only in Gaeltacht ares like the Highlands and westward Islands.
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quote: 17hens - beautiful town! A lot of it does look like a fairytale or like Disneyland!
Yeah, sure! They studied and copied Disneyland when they started designing all these old fashioned pittoresque German villages with horse drawn wagons.
I wonder why so far Disneyland hasn't claimed any copyright law suits yet.
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I am getting ready to go on a short trip, and I find myself pulling out box's of pictures I have not viewed in many years. Ahh memories. Thanks hens.
Covent garden market, Greenwich path, London Bridge, pigions, sailboats etc. etc. Now for real I need to pack, morning has gotten away from me.
ps... in case you ask, I am visiting with a couple grandaughters, and then off to Okefenokee Swamp. See if I can lasso a gator.... not really the lasso part. I run from spiders so I might out run a gator also. I am real excited about this trip. Never been in the winter even though it's going to be in the 70s the rest of the week.
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