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From: Hatunen on 15 Jun 2010 23:08

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:55:23 +0100, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David
Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

>Tom P <werotizy(a)freent.dd> wrote:
>
>> David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:
>> > Tom P <werotizy(a)freent.dd> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I suppose I am guilty because
>> >> in the last 6 weeks I've been to Valencia, London, Bamberg and
>> >> Nuremberg, but I never felt the need to discuss the fact.
>> >
>> > Until now.
>> >
>> .. meaning that a discussion newsgroup is an oxymoron?
>
><woosh>

Maybe he confused "oxymoron" wiht "redundancy".

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From: george on 16 Jun 2010 01:26

On Jun 16, 1:43 am, erilar <dra...(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:
> In article <87qdfrFt1...(a)mid.individual.net>,
> Tom P <werot...(a)freent.dd> wrote:
>
> > I guess the problem that you are addressing is that there is no
> > discussion here about travel, which requires that the people who
> > actually travel around Europe discuss it. I suppose I am guilty because
> > in the last 6 weeks I've been to Valencia, London, Bamberg and
> > Nuremberg, but I never felt the need to discuss the fact.
>
> Same here. There's nothing really notable about the fact that I went to
> Germany again other than that I had a great time, added some castles to
> my collection because I went places I had not been before(there are a
> few left), took nearly a thousand fotos, and ate Spargel several times.
> I'd forgotten because it's been a while since I was there during Spargel
> season how much I love it 8-)
>
> My spellchecker hates German words 8-) but I don't think of it as being
> much like what I've called asparagus for many decades. It's so much
> better! And even little green American asparagus is one of my favorite
> vegetables.
>
> --
> Erilar, biblioholic medievalist
>
> http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo

If you're refering to the white, I much prefer the green, but for my
German wife it's the opposite. But we've had many an enjoyable
asparagus dinner this season. The restaurant at the "Fat" Tower in
Esslingen a few years ago had a special asparagus dish menu with over
20 pages. It's also near the start of strawberry time, which for us
means lovely strawberry daiquiris.

George

From: george on 16 Jun 2010 01:41

On Jun 16, 1:54 am, erilar <dra...(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:
> In article
> <4d312db2-339c-4c79-a987-b97f80dea...(a)k39g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
>
> george <gpolkow...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Jun 14, 3:11 pm, erilar <dra...(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:
> > ----snipped--------------------
> > > SOME kind of travel discussion . Want to discuss some great castles? I
> > > have some new candidates I collected during two weeks in Germany this
> > > spring.
>
> > OK, let's here about them. I'm always looking for new places to
> > visit.
>
> > George
>
> Be afraid. Be very afraid. I'm liable to start gushing 8-)
>
> Two I would recommend to anyone anytime.
>
> Hotel Burg Hornberg above Neckarzimmern on the Neckar. Lovely hotel.
> Fantastic food. Inside the outer wall of a great ruin that belonged to
> Goetz von Berlichingen, he of the iron hand(he lost one in battle),
> rebel, who lived to an impossible age and left an autobiography, hero
> of Goethe's play of the same name.
>
> My only problem was that I STARTED there.
>
> Second one was also a Burg hotel, Burg Veldenstein just up a much
> gentler hill from Neuhaus/ Pegnitz (Pegnitz is the river below). Again
> the hotel is inside the outer walls and has some nice ruins. Family-run,
> friendly atmosphere, good food, local if that's what you want, and
> remarkably inexpensive for a castle hotel.
>
> I found a castle or many everywhere I went except Aalen, but I went
> there for Romans--the Limes museum.
>
> I'll stop now, but note: my trip album, a combination of trip diary and
> photographs, runs 79 pages not counting maps, brochures, and booklets.
>
> --
> Erilar, biblioholic medievalist
>
> http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo

So you didn't visit Burg Katzenstein ( http://www.burgkatzenstein.de )
on the East Swabian Alb, one of my favorites where you can also spend
the night and eat a medieval dinner, the best preserved of the Staufer-
age castles. When I first moved to Germany 6 years ago, it truly
looked medieval with its blackened walls (they had had a fairly recent
fire). Now after renovation and restoration work and painting, it has
partially lost that medieval feeling to me, but I always enjoy
visiting it and my sister-in-law lives a few kilometers away.

My favorite drive in Germany is along the idyllic Grosse Lauter River
of the Alb, with one of the highest concentrations of castle ruins in
Germany, most of which are visitable. And I find Hohenneuffen Castle
(fortress) in http://www.schloesser-magazin.de/en to be quite
impressive sitting atop the Alb and dominating the landscape for
miles.

Hohenasperg, the fortress between Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg, should be
reopening this fall with displays on its use as a prison. Called the
longest walk in I believe Germany or Swabia, you could walk up in a
few minutes, but it took a lifetime to come down. I'm looking forward
to our visit then.

George

From: Martin on 16 Jun 2010 04:33

On 16/06/10 01:43, erilar wrote:
> In article <87qdfrFt1vU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> Tom P <werotizy(a)freent.dd> wrote:
>
>> I guess the problem that you are addressing is that there is no
>> discussion here about travel, which requires that the people who
>> actually travel around Europe discuss it. I suppose I am guilty because
>> in the last 6 weeks I've been to Valencia, London, Bamberg and
>> Nuremberg, but I never felt the need to discuss the fact.
>
> Same here. There's nothing really notable about the fact that I went to
> Germany again other than that I had a great time, added some castles to
> my collection because I went places I had not been before(there are a
> few left), took nearly a thousand fotos, and ate Spargel several times.
> I'd forgotten because it's been a while since I was there during Spargel
> season how much I love it 8-)

I hadn't thought to mention that we had been eating Dutch asparagus for
the last few weeks, some home grown, and also strawberries that weren't
produced in a greenhouse, again some are home grown.

From: Giovanni Drogo on 16 Jun 2010 05:24

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Martin wrote:

> I hadn't thought to mention that we had been eating Dutch asparagus
> for the last few weeks, some home grown, and also strawberries that
> weren't produced in a greenhouse, again some are home grown.

Season for asparagus and strawberries is nearly over here in Italy.

I've pleasant recalls of buying strawberries at Groningen market in
August, and looking for a fountain to wash them, and eating them in
Leeuwarden while waiting for a bus carrying us back over the big
Ijsselmeer dike. Also of pannekoek with strawberries in Delft.
And of a climb to Salzburg castle eating strawberries.

And wild wood strawberries in Trentino coming down from Montesover to
Brusago.

Just discussing these thing this morning with my mother, about "travel
zapping".

I shall explain this. Last week on one of the few smart programs on
italian TV, they interviewed an ultraoctuagenarian literate, who made a
praise of "zapping del letto". It was a pun on "letto" as "bed" and
"letto" as "read", participle past of the verb "to read". He spends
nights in bed recalling the books he has read. My mother recall the
trips she made.

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