On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:53:26 +0200, Erick T. Barkhuis
wrote:
>Fishkill Bill:
>> Well Cathy and I have returned from two and a half weeks in Germany.
>> The first ten days were on a Cosmos bus tour and the last seven were
>> in a rented car.
>
>That's 17 days, right?
>Let's see:
>>
>> Here are the places we visited:
>>
>> Heidelberg-Bacharacher-Cologne-Bremen-Hamburg-Wittenburg-Berlin-Potsdam-Dresden
>> -Nuremberg-Rothenburg-Nordlington-Neuschwanstein-Munich-Oberommergau
>> -Peiting-Donauworth-Nordlington-Dinkelsbuhl-Anbach-Nurmberg-Bamberg-
>> Schonbrunn-Burgebrach-Werzburg-Schwinberg-Tausberbeschofsheim-
>> Rottingen-Creglingen-Heilbrann-Dieburg-Dormstadt-Buttelborn-Grob-Gerau-Frankfurt.
>
>That's over 30 towns and cities, of which several require at least two or
>three full days to only see the center(s) of town.
>
>>
>> We would have to say the cities are quite unimpressive. A lot of 50's
>> style plain looking buildings.
>
>OK. Got it. Upon arrival at a town, you saw several 50s style buildings,
>and decided to carry on to the next city, right?
>
>
>> The little towns are the cleanest we
>> have ever seen. Most look the same though. Down near the Alps is
>> probably the best area.
>
>Depends on what you're looking for. If you're a mountainbike rider in
>your twenties, you'd love the mountains in the south of Wuerttemburg and
>Bavaria.
>If you like to ride a bicycle and already reached the age of 70, you
>would probably consider Lower Saxony or the Baltic Sea area best.
>
>> Driving is a dream in Germany. Not a pothole in the entire country.
>
>Not quite true, but generally better than in most other places.
>
>> Not the most friendly people though, (not like Ireland).
>
>WHAT!?
>NOT friendly?! You *&^%$#@ !!!! :-)
>
We collectively fart in his general direction.
No mention of spag boll. What a sad place Germany must be.
--
Martin
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