London meeting 2005: part 2, Bad Waldliesborn

You are a character indeed Dys

I love the picture where Diane is holding the "cigar".
All the pictures are very nice and the write-up as well.
Job well done Walter

Great work, Walter!

Thanks for the travelogue.

Great job, Walter. And what is that nasty castle used for now?

Well, and on Thursday Diane and dys had to leave us, too.


We made a little detour driving to their hotel at Frankfurt airport.

At first, we just had a look (=passing by) at the famous and unique Wuppertal Schwebebahn.
Then, five kilometers away, we stopped in a pretty suburb of Ulla's native town Solingen called Gräfrath, to have Kaffee/Tee here:




Our way lead us again to the Rhine, where we had a short view (nota bene the different ways, how dys and Diane do have "short views"!) at the Cologne Cathedral.




After all that culture (we saw quite a few rocky pieces/statues etc from Roman times as well), we enjoyed a reall German meal in this brewery

Diane's dish:




Well, since a long flight was ahead, we drove straight to Francfort. (Diane was saying something this time, when I accelerated to the "higher categories". But since she fell soon asleep and dys can't read, especially no German speedometer ... :wink: )

I love the photo of Diane with the cigar cookie too.
Thank you, Walter, you've done a fine photo tour here.

So Dys is the blond . . . hey, Bubba, how come yer acarryin' a purse there in front a that big church?

I'd (we had!) really wished that the weather hadn't been so bad, so that we l could have done something different.

Today - c.i. as the last one just left Germany - the weather changed to the better, and we could have used our terrasse/balcony ...

But now, since all the friendly, nice and most-welcome A2K-friends from the USA, the UK and Germany have left us, it's dark and emty in our aprtment






(Okay, it's nearly midnight and I could have switched on some more lights and/or used a better flaslight, I admit.)

However, I've got a couple of more photos from an A2K meeting to present there




Thank you all for coming: you are wonderful and have been the nicest guests!!!

Thanks walter

If I catch up with ci today I will show him some photos.
of the london half of the meeting

Many thanks, Walter.

Thanks to all for the kind remarks!

There are damn near as many germans in germany as there are in the US. I was agog.(Walter is one of THEM) The only other place I had seen so many Germans was when I was in Torremolinos Spain.

If I would have known that Walter was a German I would have embraced him years ago.

The Fatherland is that important to me.

Pah!

I've been there in 1973 - I'd thought that there were more than here.
(Today, you'll find them concentrated in Mallorca.)





I feel honestly and awfully sorry, Gus, that I obvioulsy forgot to inform you about it.

Walter, would you be kind enough to join me in a festive goosestep this weekend?

I'll bring the schnapps.

Sorry, I don't drink at all and we have visitors over the weekend. But otherwise ...

<gustav walks away, shoulders slumped >

Great pictures, Walter! Thanks!

I had a great time - despite the rain...