The end of the road and a return to work
Monday, July 10th, 2006 - 14:06 - Blogger
Picking up where I left off, later that day we went to climb the huge spire of the Cologne Cathedral, the Dom. What a very long way up! Sadly it was spoiled by the fact that there was schoolkid graffiti all the way up! Outrageous! You have to hope that there’s some explanation why it’s not been removed.
We ended the day with a protest steak at an Argentinean steak house. By this point we had overloaded on pork! There’s only so much dead pig a man can eat!
Next day was off to see my parents in the Netherlands, which was good. We did some cycling around and ended up getting somewhat burnt on a two hour cycle ride. Typical. Two weeks of wandering around in the summer heat and barely a tan, but two hours on the coast and WHAM! Sunburn.
After that it was back home via Belgium and it’s curious lack of petrol stations, but overall it was quite painless.
And there you have it.
Here are the stats:
Miles driven: 2000
Days travelled: 16
Borders crossed: 13
Countries seen: 6
ODP members encountered: 5
Speed cameras triggered: 2
Days of “I feel too rough to drink”: 1
Grand Dukes foiled: 1/2 (He hit us hard, but we survived and weren’t thrown in an oubliette. We’ll call it a draw)
Highest mountain ascended: Zugspitze
Biggest lake seen: Bodensee
Most responsible for nigh alcohol poisoning:
Hofbrauhaus in Munich and it’s evil 1 litre jugs of dark beer
Most dubious honour:
World’s largest cuckoo clock
Prettiest village: Ribeauville
Prettiest town: Tough, but I liked Heidelberg
Ugliest town: Brussels. It might have been Mannheim, but it was redeemed by the Rhein banks
Most potent memory: “Ghost”, the garlic sausage-eating, foul-smelling monstrosity.
tag: roadtrip
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Ghost tells me he fancies you Maggie. Maybe you want to meet up with him to share a garlic sausage?
A good holiday overall then.
Even if you have been converted to the Cult of DMOZ by the experience (and close association and osmosic induction by some of it’s members).
So. Now that Germany is fully reported, does this mean we will ever hear the final chapters of Egypt?
Yeah, yeah, I’ll get around to Egypt too. I might have to do that at the airport or something.
And I suppose I’d better talk about Dmoz, but I was holding off on that until I have a mite more experience.