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