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Lol, me and my friend (female) had a similar experience filling up, but maybe even more embarrassing. We go to fill up and first thing we do is check which side the thing is on, awesome. Then to figure out how to open it...exact same thing. Pressing buttons here and there, opening the boot, opening the bonnet...sigh. Out of frustration I push the bloody thing and it just pops open. Laughing fit ensues. Then to pull out...we had to reverse out and my friend parked too close..it ended up some random guy had to direct her out of the gas station! Sigh.

Cake!!!

I am tempted to try and sneak it into my luggage but I think a) IKEA security might not be so impressed and b) it is more than likely to put me over the 15kg bag limit ><
But a snow cone machine would be just the thing ot cool down helmet-heated heads in midsummer...Hmmm AUSA grant anyone?! We would share with the pillions ... :P

I want a snowcone machine!!

Thanks! I am enjoying writing it too... read some of the first posts the other day and had already forgotten half of the things I had done, so I think it will be a good souvenir for later too!

Hey Hanne

I am enjoying your blog very much.

synaestheticness! I saw a documentary on synaesthetic people once. It's one of the most interesting things seeing a group of synaesthetic people meet for the first time. "Hmmm, your name tastes like a really rich chocolate mud cake!" "Yours is like bubblegum!" "Your name looks yellow!" It's awesome.

I think you're not officially old until you're home on a Saturday night and actively looking forward to 'Grand Designs' the architecture programme instead of out drinking.

*Ingrid and I couldn't possibly comment...*

I am really super glad i am from NZ where we have the choice to change! Was explaining your situation to a German the other day Ross, he looked at me incredulously when I said you had swapped to law. Actually he was a microbiology student. And I was supposed to ask you what microbiologists know that would want make them want to turn vegetarian (if they are not already)?

Thanks for the feedback, the food (and beer) is indeed excellent! I don't have a bike here this time around but next time I am over this way it will hopefully be for a bit longer and we will be able to fit some touring in! Have certainly driven over some very fun stretches...

Crikey! Someone like me who keeps changing career before they even start that career would be royally screwed in Deutschland! Except my student loan would be a lot smaller...

Ahh - all is revealed...

(Though it took me a while to spot your answer, as I've been slack in following your blog for a week or 2...)

Apparently there is a similar distinction for solid chocolate and chocolate with liquid centres, though I forget the name of the liquidy ones - not plain schokolade anyway. Those logical Germans have thought of everything...

Cheers,

Ross

PS any curious examples of dinglish in action gratefully accepted

Love the honey/centrifuge analogy

Gruß Gutte Hanne, (I think I got the spelling of the salutation right!).

Mmmmmm, warm bretzen! Mmmm, heffe weißbier. Mmmm, schweinshaxen & knödelen..... much nice food & many nice restaurants there!

Sounds like you're having a great time over there. That's a bit of a worry that guy coming onto you so strongly. He must have been very close to a swift elbow in the solarplexus and the back of your fist in his face. You don't get those problems on bikes.

There're lots of nice riding roads over there down around the alps. Check out the one up & over Gross Glockner on a bike if you get a chance. It's a main road but it's got some impressive altitude. There are many good places to go visit around Salzburg either with or without a bike to.

Cheers.

Bavaria? This blog is useless without pictures of awesome castles.

Tell me when you visit Transylvania too. I want to see Dracula's lair.

reply to Ross's April musings:

Originally Posted by Hanne

Hello Ross!

I finally have an answer for you! Two months later, but finally the mysteries behind Kuchen/Torte have been revealed to my antipodean palate:

KUCHEN is cake like we know it, banana/ chocolate/ walnut, the main thing is it is a dry sort of cake. Crumbly.

TORTE has cream inside, and the cream is an integral part of the creation. Cake with layers, pretty much. The sort of cake you don't leave in the sun.

Apparently it can get confusing when you have a KUCHEN with cream on TOP, because then you might think it is a TORTE but because the cream is an add-on and not integral to the cake's being it is not.

And with Penny Markt, it is a rather odd name. That is abut all I can say! Shall I bring you back a plastic carry bag as a souvenir?

Helo Ross!

I finally have an answer for you! Two months later, but finally the mysteries behind Kuchen/Torte have been revealed to my antipodean palate:

KUCHEN is cake like we know it, banana/ chocolate/ walnut, the main thing is it is a dry sort of cake. Crumbly.

TORTE has cream inside, and the cream is an integral part of the creation. Cake with layers, pretty much. The sort of cake you don't leave in the sun.

Apparently it can get confusing when you have a KUCHEN with cream on TOP, because then you might think it is a TORTE but because the cream is an add-on and not integral to the cake's being it is not.

And with Penny Markt, it is a rather odd name. That is abut all I can say! Shall I bring you back a plastic carry bag as a souvenir?

Danke schön Hanne! Great blog posts.

Would "Pfennig Markt" not be more appropriate? Is that Dinglish? Is there much Dinglish about? I also wondered about your Schwarzwaldtorte in an earlier post - I always thought of Schwarzwaldkuchen? Dialect??

Hmmm - strange pedantic musings considering 'Ich spreche nür ein bißchen Deutsch'

Bis später!

Ross