Radisson Sas Hotel Cottbus

And it's true! I did feed an elephant on Wednesday! And apparently they eat whole bananas! The peel, the stem, the works! What a cool experience. When else would I have been able to do that? Thanks Up With People!

Wednesday was our regional learning day in Cottbuss, Germany. Some people went to the Vattanfall coal mines (what I did on Sunday), some went on a city tour, and others went to visit a castle.

I went to the zoo! Of ...

... money for the restoration of the church. The cross at the very top of the church was paid for by the pilots who dropped the bombs.

We spent all day in Dresden, taking in the sights, sounds and smells. What a beautiful city with amazing architecture. I doubt that my pictures do it justice.

After a great day in Dresden, we ate a typical German meal of baked potato and quark. Quark is a kind of gravy that one pours on the ...

... at a ferry that was to take us to Germany. We all got out of the buses looking especially tired and, with pillows in hand, headed to the top of the ferry to... what else... sleep some more! At 10:45 p.m. we arrived in Germany, got back on the buses, and then slept until lunchtime.

We arrived in Cottbuss at 4:00 p.m.

But wait, we weren't supposed to get there until 9:30 p.m. We weren't even supposed to get ...

Enjoyed a nice couple of days in Spreewald, a network of natural canals in an area the size of the ACT. The thing to do here is to go on one of the canal rides, it's a must. Another is to cycle around the region, we did a little of both and also stayed at the Radler (meaning Cycling). The area is also known for the home of the famous Gerkin, therefore when in Spreewald....

Met some more friends of the Fuch's (Franz and ...

... in the US and Germany. And it was IN GERMAN!!! Yikes. It went ok. I stumbled over my words sometimes...but oh well. Aside from that, work has been super busy. Had one of "those" days on call over the weekend, was on the road from 9am till 11pm and racked up 400km. Saw a number of regular sick cows, plus one who had decided to spew her uterus all over. After 2 hours I ...

... to Frankfurt, which would ultimately cause me to miss Claudia´s big 30th B-day party. Well, to make a long story short, I miraculously made my flight, all flight´s were delayed, and I made my connecting flight by just minutes. I arrive in Frankfurt, Germany and catch a train down to Bayreuth where Chris and Claudia live (he and his brother are family friends through a high school foreign x-change ...

Back from Berlin
Current mood: sick

Hello everyone.
So I had a very busy week with lots of walking, lots of culture and lots of doener kebaps. Let me recall...
The stucture for our week in Berlin was four hours in the morning walking around the city and doing a tour with our professor Dr. Herr Bayer. He showed us places of interest politically, historically, culturally etc. He wanted us to see more ...

... clean and tidy town not that I had expected anything less. It was just that some of those towns in the Ruhr area looked a bit shabby especially at the stop in Dusseldorf. We reached the Moselle river along which were tied up those very large cruise ships...very like the one we took on the Nile. Customers were being boarded as we watched. Lots of oldies about to go on 12 day Rhine cruises. We walked along the embankment towards The Eck, the corner ...

... ist sie gerade frisch renoviert und wird 2010 wohl europäische Kulturhauptstadt sein. Die alten Häuser, die schmale Gassen säumen, sind auch einfach himmlisch. Also ein entspannter Freitagabend mit russischem Wodka bei russischem Gespräch (total lustig) in russischer Kneipe, gefolgt von einer sagenhaften Nachtwächterstadtwanderung. In Görlitz ist ja so einiges passiert, von dem man auf ...

naar Lübbenau, einkaufen, dan camping. Middag wandelen naar Lehde typisch Spreewald dorpje