Where are you from? 2008

[Freston]

Thanks dude. I'd say the Tourist Board won't like me for saying this, but there are far nicer places in Ireland than Dublin! I'm dying to go to Germany and will as soon as I can convince the girlfriend. She's more of a sun holiday person. It's not the same at all but I am going to Amsterdam soon - got that one past her

What applies to Dublin applies equally to Amsterdam IMHO. Still, if you venture a little outside the main street tourist areas you can have a great time there. (I studied there for five years, heheh... don't ask)

Germany as a tourist destination is one of Europe's best kept secrets. After I've discovered it sorta by accident, I always go to Germany on holidays. It's perfect. I can get there by car in an hour or two. German cuisine is very good. Everything is cheap compared to the Netherlands. And the people are very friendly. The landscape is very beautiful, perfect for hiking. And German beer...mmmmm beer


And going 200 km/h on the highway never gets boring.... But you didn't hear that from me



Oh darn, now I feel like going on holiday.

[bigtomrodney]

And going 200 km/h on the highway never gets boring.... But you didn't hear that from me

Fun fun fun on the Autobahn!

[Ogion]

Lol. But for the future: there a some politicians talking about getting a 130km/h limit, for climate reasons...(Well, i don't really have a problem with, that, but just because i don't like cars...)

I'd say the Tourist Board won't like me for saying this, but there are far nicer places in Ireland than Dublin!

Yeah, i said that to myself, but it was so, that i was in Spain (where my parents live), and one day short to my departure (because i live in germany and my holidays from university were to be over), we discovered, that it would actually be cheaper, to fly via Valencia-Cork, Dublin-Dusseldorf, than directly Valencia-Cologne (strange new world ). So only a week before actually flying, i knew it would be over Ireland...
So i didn't really had a plan on what to do in Ireland, and where to stay, but fortunately you Irish have Bed&Breakfast so that was no problem. And it was one point in this story: At that time, i still studied Celtic Studies at the university of Bonn. (I suppose, tom, you know what i mean. For the others: Celtic Studies is a (at least in germany) linguistic study of the Celtic languages, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, especially Old Irish.)
Well, in the end of last summer i decided to give that up and now i am studying Geography. But anyways, Ireland was nice. And i sure qould have liked to see more than those too cities, a few kilometres of Irish land at the flying in at cork, what i saw from the train (Cork-Dublin). I really like the Shireland (Lord of the rings-like-land)-like lands.


So, where do you want to have holidays in germany, tom? And where are you regularly, Freston?
I suppose, it's not the cities? I agree that there are many beautiful places in Germany, and normally the peole are polite. But you know, as a society, the Germans really start to irritate me (and i say that as a German). All these laws or ideas the politicians get lately so remind me of the description of a surveillance state...And all these alarmists, talking about this 'big danger' from international terror^ We had one! case of an attempted train bombing in germany. One! And what do they do of it? Evereybody seems to be scared. The politicians get away with ideas, before the 9/11 it would be political suicide to say.
But well, thats poltics and society, in the normal life, citizens for themselves are much more 'settled'/not that politisized.
And one thing about us: I think we tend to see most things more pessimistic than others. And we like it to grouch/complain about things ('murren').

Ogion

P.S.: Even if it may look that way, i didn't try to talk you out of Germany, really. I just like to get annoyed too

[Freston]

@Ogion
We're not supposed to talk about politics on this board, but I share your observation of the politicians. It's the same on this side of the border
But the funny thing is that everything seems milder when you are in a foreign country. I tend not to get as much annoyed as I do in my hometown.

Where do I go on holiday? South Germany mostly. Schwarzwald, Saarland, München. And recently I heard a friend of a friend who I met a couple of times was moving back to Germany after living in the Netherlands for ten years or so. I offered to help, and got a nice free holiday out of that ... No it was a lot of fun to do. I got to drive a small truck to a small village under Stuttgart; very beautiful. Alas, it didn't give a Kneipe there...but it was fun nontheless.

Next time I'm probably going to Köln, the natives said good things about that city. And it's not even three hours per car. Seems like a good way to spend a long weekend.

[MikeTbob]

What does Kneipe mean?

[Ogion]

A Kneipe is a pub.

Ah, well i didn't knew that politics were 'forbidden'.
Yeah well, i suppose it depends on what perspective you see Cologne. What i really like, is the dialect. But you won't hear it very often enough (but in the pubs probably more often; when it's not for the young peopgle, but the 'little bar in the streetcorner').

Ogion

From German-English Freedict dictionary [fd-deu-eng]:

Kneipe [knaipə] (n) , s.(f )
pub; saloon; tavern

[MikeTbob]

A Kneipe is a pub.

Ah, well i didn't knew that politics were 'forbidden'.
Yeah well, i suppose it depends on what perspective you see Cologne. What i really like, is the dialect. But you won't hear it very often enough (but in the pubs probably more often; when it's not for the young peopgle, but the 'little bar in the streetcorner').

Ogion

From German-English Freedict dictionary [fd-deu-eng]:

Kneipe [knaipə] (n) , s.(f )
pub; saloon; tavern

Interesting and thanks for the reply.
So I could say something silly like "Let's go down to the Kneipe and get pissed!" Meaning "Lets go to the tavern/bar/pub and get drunk? I'm always looking for new things to say.
BTW, I think it's okay to mention politics in a sentence, but don't start a 3 paragraph rant.

[Ogion]

Yeah, i suppose you can say that. Well, a Kneipe isn't really a saloon (i am speaking of these cliche-saloons in western films), so it's more the place where people meet, and talk, play cards or whatever, while they drink, of course. But i am no big expert on that, since i usually don't drink alcohol, cause i don't like it

Ogion

P.S.: If you like saying words in another language (like findings synonyms of words in another language), then i would recommend to you the dictd-server and the dictionaries like freedict...(In Debian they are precompiled in the repos, but i think, thats the only distribution. At least the dictionaries are only there precompiled.
Debian -- Package Search Results -- freedict
Debian -- Package Search Results -- dictd

[anomie]

Home was Madison, Wisconsin, but I moved to Austin, Texas on a whim after finishing school. Six and a half years later, I am still here.

Both nice places to visit, though I recommend Madison in July and Austin in April.

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By the way, the poll should probably be North America (USA/CAN/MEX), right?

[budman7]

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By the way, the poll should probably be North America (USA/CAN/MEX), right?

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