City Partner Hotel Astoria Bonn

... Last Sunday, my housemates, Evi's friend, Anja, Kirsten's boyfriend, Colm, my friend, Tara, and I all gathered at our apartment. It took Kirsten, Colm, and I five and a half hours of cooking, but I successfully cooked my first Thanksgiving dinner, complete with turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole, gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, pumpkin soup, and pumpkin pie (made from real pumpkins)! Everything went perfectly and tasted delicious. It was an ...

... er hier einmal erwaehnt. Ansonsten war es auch mal wieder nett ins Kino gehen zu können, russischsprachige Filme sehe ich mir ja in Kasachstan nicht unbedingt an.

Dann wieder zurück in Almaty beziehungsweise Astana. Was gibt's Neues? Der Benzinpreis liegt jetzt bei KZT 101 pro Liter 96 Oktan. Statt über Währungsabwertung gegen den USD wird mittlerweile über eine Währungsaufwertung ...

Es ist seltsam, wie schnell die Zeit vergeht.. Wie oft habe ich euch versprochen zu schreiben, anzurufen oder einen blog zu verfassen. Ich denke oft an euch und es ist schön zu wissen, dass es euch genauso geht.

Schon seit fast einem halben Jahr lebe, wohne und atme ich diesen wundervollen ...

... that we had not INTENDED to get on a high-speed train, Katie and I arrived in Munich where we met the rest of my friends and Cave-members, Brit, Pat and Jeff! Together we all headed down to my old stomping ground, Salzburg! In Salzburg, Katie and Pat were dragged from place to place as Jeff, Brit, and I reminisced about favorite bars, favorite walks, favorite doener stands. They even got to meet our old English teacher, Gundy, who invited us in ...

... on them. We even saw a couple placing their padlock on the fence and taking a picture. At one place there were 5 padlocks lined up in a row all with the same name but a different date…one for every year they were together! Call me a hopeless romantic but I love this idea and it’s wonderful because then you just throw your key into the water! Okay that’s littering but it has meaning!!! Well me and Chris didn’t get a chance to padlock our love but ...

Straight from finishing work with COLT, I went to V festival. No pics, and you can get stories directly, but I then flew straight out on Monday to meet Philip, Lawrence and Elias in Germany to catch up on Philip's stag do. The plan is a week-long tour through Epernay & Reims France (I missed that bit), Köln, Kerpen, Nürberg etc through ...

... can buy a couple bottles of bier and enjoy your drink while walking around the city or are riding the train. Unfortunately, the Dom was closed due to a concert and we couldn't see the inside.
The next day, we were split up into groups to visit different company sites near Bonn. I was in the Bayer group (the others were Henkel and Ford), and the company site was pretty much a small town in itself. Bayer is associated with aspirin mainly, but they also make a ...

... the Lindows' due to the littlest Lindow. I managed to sleep from 10:30 until about 12:30. Then, after struggling for 1.5 hours to get Vardeman to sleep, I was unable to return to that blissful state myself. Now I am simply wondering how I will make it through the day!

... am Handy über die neuesten DVD-Player unterhalten, auf der anderen Seite beinahe hysterisch werden, wenn man in der Nähe irgendwelcher Fetisch-Orte oder -gegenstände die Kamera auspackt. Die Katholiken sind, aber von ihrem Getränk die ersten Tropfen auf die Erde kippen, als Opfer an die Ahnen. Businessfrauen, die ihre Probleme schwanger zu werden damit zu beheben versuchen, dass sie sich von Medizinmännern behandeln lassen und ...

... though. We also walked through a mini-tropical rain forest so that we could feel what type of environment cocoa beans w**e grown in. We ended our walk-through with a visit to the chocolate gift shop. I bought a thin stick of dark chocolate and a tin of chocolate truffles. The tin is brass and has a picture of the cathedral on it. The truffles are diff**ent kinds of chocolate, and they w**e all filled with liquor. I did not realize this when I bought it ...