I ran across this on BoingBoing today. It’s quite the video. Personally, I would have been more satisfied if the robots had continued eating one another.
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Back in Karlsruhe and with several hours of nothing to do before I could retrieve my luggage, I wandered around the palace grounds. Lo and behold, I found a small railway pulling children and parents.
Yes, in fact there are tracks running through the grass.
The old palace.
Sad to see my year abroad end but also happy to be going on to new adventures. That evening I took the train down to Freiburg where I stayed the night with Nina. We went out partying with her friends who were waiting for their bar exam scores to come the following day. Nina and I got back to her house about an hour before the train left for the Frankfurt airport. I didn’t get any sleep to speak of until the end of the 13 hour direct flight from Frankfurt to Portland and the hour car ride back to my parents house. I must have been quite the sight getting off the plane dead tired, with blood-shot eyes, smelling of cigarette smoke and spilled alcohol, and hauling a year’s worth of accumulated possessions. Oh what a year it was!
Tags: Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany, Karlsruhe, Nina, Summer 2005
The kitchen in the little apartment I rented a room from. It was always very tidy and very German-looking. Only one of the three other roommates was really there over the summer. She was from Iran and doing her PhD at the university.
My little room. My desk and my bed with a window at one end of the room.
The door into the room, the only storage in the room, and the bed.
The Karlsruhe train station near sunset. Nina had given me a picture from near this very spot many years before when she stayed with my family. I actually found it a few days after my return to America.
Tags: Circumnavigating the Baltic Sea, Germany, Karlsruhe, Summer 2005
The cathedral in the middle of the city.
They were working on restoring and preserving part of the building.
A street market was setting up as I wandered by.
This little trough ran the length of the downtown. It had a lively little creek bubbling down through it. I followed its path for quite some distance.
Still following the little creek.
Mc Donald’s has invaded Freiburg.
Burger King was not far away.
Nina sent me back to Karlsruhe with a Toblerone present from Switzerland. Yum!
Tags: Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany, Nina, Summer 2005
On the way back to Freiburg im Breisgau from Switzerland, Nina and I stopped off at a castle at twilight. Taking photos in the low light soon revealed some spirits about.
Looking down on a nearby village.
And then a spirit came to visit my photo.
Tags: Castle, Germany, Haunted, Nina, Summer 2005
Nina and I decided to go to the Black Forest to see the sights and do a little hiking. These are some photos of the adventure.
We decided to hike up a mountain to the top for the view.
Nina reliving the hiking experiences she had with my family in California.
In the winter a ski lift goes up to the top.
It was a little bit cold up there.
On the top of the mountain.
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The cowbells were magical.
Nina’s car by a lake.
A train station.
Her radio had been stolen a few weeks before our little trip. She had found a replacement unit although it wasn’t completely installed. At least we had a little music though!
Recent storm damage.
For my father. He loves seeing distribution systems in other countries.
A World War I memorial in the countryside.
We started driving down this path then decided it was not going to take us where we wanted to go. And with it getting dark, we decided it was not a good idea to try off-roading a Jetta.
Attack of the windmills!
Tags: Black Forest, Germany, Nina, Summer 2005
On the way back to Karlsruhe, we went through a lot of scenic German countryside.
We went through a lot of scenic German countryside at high speeds. This was the absolute fastest that we could get the poor little car to go. And this was on a good downhill. With a tail wind.
The storm we endured in The Netherlands followed us back to Germany.
The windmills along the sides of the roadway were eerie in the twilight.
To make it back to Karlsruhe, Chris loaded up on a fizzy drink from a rest area.
Tags: Autobahn, Chris S, Germany, Karlsruhe, Summer 2005
One night we got a nice lightning storm. I snapped a couple of photos and managed to catch a couple of bolts.
Tags: Germany, Karlsruhe, Lightning, Summer 2005
One morning I woke up to a very pretty pink sky in Karlsruhe.
Tags: Germany, Karlsruhe, Summer 2005
Rather than go to Budapest as I had planned, I ended up partying with my old exchange student sister, Nina, at Das Fest. The place was totally packed with people and music. I’m sad I missed Budapest but I am very glad that I got to go to Das Fest.
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Tags: Das Fest, Germany, Karlsruhe, Nina, Summer 2005
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