Last Thursday early in the morning I had to keep an important and extended civil service appointment near Munich Hauptbahnhof (central station). Thereafter I met with Bettina and the two of us had a stroll around the Christmas market in front of Munich’s city hall … Read More →
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Barcelona Full Throttle 2008
On Fri 12 Dec 2008 I said goodbye to beautiful pre Christmas Dublin in order to fly to Barcelona and spend a few nice days with my sister and her boyfriend. View Larger Map Though I nearly missed the Aer Lingus flight due to insane … Read More →
Christmas Commons at Trinity College
There’ve been quite a few posts in the preceding week, but I reckon this will be the last one about Dublin for this year. Read carefully! Tuesday night was grand: The college’s Christmas Commons was on! Before the official part of the evening started a … Read More →
German-Franconian dinner at Trinity Halls
Ronny’s most recent trip to Germany brought along some great surprises for us fellow students: Some call it German-Franconian deli food – me and Ronny call it bratwurst with mustard and sauerkraut. Yummy! On Monday evening – after a 40 minute southbound bus ride – … Read More →
Yet another ATM story along with Terry Pratchett and Patrick Stewart at TCD
A couple of months ago I wrote a few lines on the topic of Irish ATMs and cash withdrawal. This paragraph is the next in that row. You know when you try to get some money from an ATM: At one stage it presents you … Read More →
Advent season impressions of Dublin
Roughly one week ago the peaceful and reflective season of the year aka advent started. This post tries to give a few visual impressions of how Dublin looks like these days. As far as I can recall it, it’s been rather brilliant these days. With … Read More →
I’m from Barcelona concert vs. I’m in fact in Barcelona
Unfortunate things do happen. Weird things do happen as well. And they happened to me recently! Let me explain in detail: There’s a Swedish 30 people band called ‘I’m from Barcelona’. After checking with my girlfriend for potential dates she could come over to Dublin, … Read More →
An NDS Dublin Pub Crawl
With the 4th of Dec 2008 4pm a not assignment but at least lecture liberated time till Christmas started. Most of my fellow students and I decided to go on a little pub crawl around Dublin. Since we had some sort of something to celebrate … Read More →
Business as usual: Santa Rausch & Zubrenntiere performing at Chilly and the annual Biberbau Christmas bash
This post’s topic says it all: Just a brief wrap-up of a few recent on-goings. More or less the same procedure as every year! Good fun though! On 23 December Santa Rausch performed their Christmas show at the Chilly: And below you’ll find a selection … Read More →