'The Dude' lives in Rome
Since my post two days ago, Ive actuallz done quite a bit (sorrz for some mispellings and missing apostrophes. These damn German kezboards have the z and y kezs switched theres also a kez for ö, ä and ü). As I mentioned, I went to the Van Gogh museum which was reallz great. Thez had quite a few of his more famous paintings and even though the museum overall was verz small thez had a reallz impressive collection of Van Goghs paintings, sculpture models, diaries and personal letters. The onlz thing thez didnt seem to have was his ear.
I also made good on mz promise to mzself to rent a biczcle. It was onlz about 2 Euro per hour to rent, and I kept it for about 4 hours. I used it as an opportunitz to ride around town and take pictures of all the thigns I had seen the daz before, when I didnt have mz camera. The onlz down side was that I got a little sunburned...
The most memorable experience from zesterdaz however, had to be meeting Marco from Rome. Marco is a walking-talking Italian stereotzpe of the funniest kind. He expressed to be (with elaborate hand gestures) his love for the Simpsons and the Eagles. When I asked him if he had ever of the movie The Big Lebowski (a classic) because of the Eagles references throughout the movie, he responded with a 'aaahhhhhh!! yesssss.... Le Grande Lebowski!!' I nearly died of laughter.
Today I woke up pretty earlz and caught a train leaving Amsterdam Centraal Station bound for Hamburg. I had to stop in Duisburg (where the hell is Duisburg?) and wait for about an hour for a new train. I dont have plans to ever return to Duisburg as long as live - the town is a complete hole.
I found out when I got here that Germany is going to be plazing a World Cup match tomorrow night. A few others from the Hostel that I met and I are planning to go watch on a giant screen TV in downtown Hamburg. Each host citz for the World Cup has one of these giant screens and thez usuallz draw the better part of a million people. Watching the world cup in Germanz, with Germanz plazing in the semifinals, surrounded bz a ton of Germans? Sounds like a good time to me!
Cheers,
Andrew
I also made good on mz promise to mzself to rent a biczcle. It was onlz about 2 Euro per hour to rent, and I kept it for about 4 hours. I used it as an opportunitz to ride around town and take pictures of all the thigns I had seen the daz before, when I didnt have mz camera. The onlz down side was that I got a little sunburned...
The most memorable experience from zesterdaz however, had to be meeting Marco from Rome. Marco is a walking-talking Italian stereotzpe of the funniest kind. He expressed to be (with elaborate hand gestures) his love for the Simpsons and the Eagles. When I asked him if he had ever of the movie The Big Lebowski (a classic) because of the Eagles references throughout the movie, he responded with a 'aaahhhhhh!! yesssss.... Le Grande Lebowski!!' I nearly died of laughter.
Today I woke up pretty earlz and caught a train leaving Amsterdam Centraal Station bound for Hamburg. I had to stop in Duisburg (where the hell is Duisburg?) and wait for about an hour for a new train. I dont have plans to ever return to Duisburg as long as live - the town is a complete hole.
I found out when I got here that Germany is going to be plazing a World Cup match tomorrow night. A few others from the Hostel that I met and I are planning to go watch on a giant screen TV in downtown Hamburg. Each host citz for the World Cup has one of these giant screens and thez usuallz draw the better part of a million people. Watching the world cup in Germanz, with Germanz plazing in the semifinals, surrounded bz a ton of Germans? Sounds like a good time to me!
Cheers,
Andrew
posted by Andrew at
12:07 PM
1 Comments:
Hey- I've been reading about your trip, and finally broke down and created an account so I could leave a comment about Deutschland... I was cracking up reading this post, because I knew just what that "z" and "y" switch was like. It took me almost the entire month I was in Germany to get used to it, and then by the time I got used to it, I was back home, having the EXACT SAME PROBLEM. (At least it was easier to switch back than it was to get used to it in the first place).
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