All the while, as ever, this marathon weighs heavily on my mind. Thus I must train while I'm there. Just take a look at the beautiful city of Krakau. It will be a pleasure to run there.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Poland
16:00, 4.April, 2012 - I'm leaving for Krakau Poland this Friday. My trip begins with a ride from a friend to St. Gallen in Switerland in the evening. From there two girls and I will ride at 21:00 with Michael Giemek, who has kindly offered to share to road with us for 45CHF or about 37.38 euros. There's a really great website that help people find road shares http://www.mitfahrgelegenheit.de. In Krakau I will be staying at a friend of one of these two girls' house. Come Monday (Easter Monday) we will try to find a ride back. I may come back on the 8th since the same guy comes back then and 45CHF is a great deal. Otherwise, I could end up taking a train which would be slow. Oh yes, Michael drives an Audi A6 and with a top speed over 200km/h and no speed limit it should be a quick juant.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Language Course and Orientation At an End, Holidays Begin
There is undoubtedly a big gap between this post and my previous one. The reason is that I ran out of room on google to upload pictures. Google has let me down in this respect, and wants me to pay $5 per year to have access to more room. I have decided that I will upload photos to another place and link them here to this blog. This means that my blogs will require you to visit two websites instead of one. I will also move all the extra photos in the photo repository over to this new place.
I got a 2.7 in my language course. 1 is the best 5 is fail. I have visited Freiburg briefly and I find Konstanz to be a prettier place. Freiburg is very attractive too but I like the location of Konstanz better. I toured a beer brewery in the black forest. Fürstenburg is both a place in Germany where great beer is brewed, and a place in my heart because of the first. It was simply amazing to see the process from start to finish of the production of beer. Beer is extremely important. Without it we would have civilization, no arguing that point. It kindled a little remembrance of my hobby back in Canada of brewing and distilling spirits. The great copper vats were a sparkeling beauty in the late afternoon light, which filtered in through the old factory windows. Later we went deep into the earth down hundreds of stairs to where the fermentation takes place. Afterwards we were invited to eat and drink in the beer hall. At this point we were offered as much beer as we could drink. I tried every variety at least twice. I settled in the end on dunkel Weizen as my favourite, followed closely by the hell Weizen. The Pils was also great but a tad too bitter after the second glass. For food we were served buttered pretzels though only one. I had to buy a pizza afterward for teh trainride home. It was delicious and only 5 Euros.
I visited the Insel Mainau which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Bodensee. There I visited a Schmetterlingshaus (Butterfly Conserve). Also the island is full of flowers and massive trees. This is part of the reason it is a World Heritage Site. I found a tree that took 5 people to hug.
I have spent considerable time preparing for the marathon, and indeed now that is all that is on my mind. It takes place in a little less than two weeks. By now I should be in perfect shape and be doing 25km+ runs weekly. The truth is that I feel ill prepared. I will stop running on the 12th after a medium run and begin eating. I know that the only thing that will get me through the race is determination.
I am not doing any long trips for the easter holidays outside of visiting Vienna for the Marathon. Many people are going to Ceska Republika, or Italy, France, and Spain but I will stay here. Perhaps I can visit Heidelberg or something. I have buy a ticket for all of Baden-Württemberg for only 37Euros for 5 people. Or better yet me and 4 others can visit anywhere in Germany for 40 Euros on the weekend. Thus I could visit Berlin this coming weekend.
My worms for my worm farm should arrive in about 2 days. I'm excited because they will be my stay-at-home factory workers who provide the supplies for my guerrilla garden invasion. I have taken to buying canned tomatoes not only because they are cheaper but because they leave me with a pot in which I can plant tomatoes, beans, zucchini, watermelon, and sunflowers in the worm castings. I can then set these pots up throughout the city and hopefully come late summer people will be forced to pluck tomatoes from these cans. There you go Jacob! I will also plant things in the ground but these are more portable.
I found more decoration for my room. It now somewhat resembles an Iranian Hooka Lounge.
I tried longboarding! I had to wear flip flops but it was still fun! I'll try to find some cheap shoes so I don't ruin my nice Italian leather sandals.
All in all I am very happy and there's so much I haven't told you. It would just take too long, and sometimes its the small insignificant things that are the coolest. Such as, I spent a warm twilight sitting in the grass by the River Rhein watching the starts come out. I watched their reflections form in the unusually smooth river, then went to visit a friend and had a good time there! The small things. But also, I'd like to keep some stories secret so that when we chance upon one another and you ask me, "So how was Germany!?", I won't just say "Read my blog!". Rather, I will tell you of how I got lost, how I got free fruit from a woman, how I visited castles, and about how people see me naked on a daily basis.
I got a 2.7 in my language course. 1 is the best 5 is fail. I have visited Freiburg briefly and I find Konstanz to be a prettier place. Freiburg is very attractive too but I like the location of Konstanz better. I toured a beer brewery in the black forest. Fürstenburg is both a place in Germany where great beer is brewed, and a place in my heart because of the first. It was simply amazing to see the process from start to finish of the production of beer. Beer is extremely important. Without it we would have civilization, no arguing that point. It kindled a little remembrance of my hobby back in Canada of brewing and distilling spirits. The great copper vats were a sparkeling beauty in the late afternoon light, which filtered in through the old factory windows. Later we went deep into the earth down hundreds of stairs to where the fermentation takes place. Afterwards we were invited to eat and drink in the beer hall. At this point we were offered as much beer as we could drink. I tried every variety at least twice. I settled in the end on dunkel Weizen as my favourite, followed closely by the hell Weizen. The Pils was also great but a tad too bitter after the second glass. For food we were served buttered pretzels though only one. I had to buy a pizza afterward for teh trainride home. It was delicious and only 5 Euros.
I visited the Insel Mainau which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Bodensee. There I visited a Schmetterlingshaus (Butterfly Conserve). Also the island is full of flowers and massive trees. This is part of the reason it is a World Heritage Site. I found a tree that took 5 people to hug.
I have spent considerable time preparing for the marathon, and indeed now that is all that is on my mind. It takes place in a little less than two weeks. By now I should be in perfect shape and be doing 25km+ runs weekly. The truth is that I feel ill prepared. I will stop running on the 12th after a medium run and begin eating. I know that the only thing that will get me through the race is determination.
I am not doing any long trips for the easter holidays outside of visiting Vienna for the Marathon. Many people are going to Ceska Republika, or Italy, France, and Spain but I will stay here. Perhaps I can visit Heidelberg or something. I have buy a ticket for all of Baden-Württemberg for only 37Euros for 5 people. Or better yet me and 4 others can visit anywhere in Germany for 40 Euros on the weekend. Thus I could visit Berlin this coming weekend.
My worms for my worm farm should arrive in about 2 days. I'm excited because they will be my stay-at-home factory workers who provide the supplies for my guerrilla garden invasion. I have taken to buying canned tomatoes not only because they are cheaper but because they leave me with a pot in which I can plant tomatoes, beans, zucchini, watermelon, and sunflowers in the worm castings. I can then set these pots up throughout the city and hopefully come late summer people will be forced to pluck tomatoes from these cans. There you go Jacob! I will also plant things in the ground but these are more portable.
I found more decoration for my room. It now somewhat resembles an Iranian Hooka Lounge.
I tried longboarding! I had to wear flip flops but it was still fun! I'll try to find some cheap shoes so I don't ruin my nice Italian leather sandals.
All in all I am very happy and there's so much I haven't told you. It would just take too long, and sometimes its the small insignificant things that are the coolest. Such as, I spent a warm twilight sitting in the grass by the River Rhein watching the starts come out. I watched their reflections form in the unusually smooth river, then went to visit a friend and had a good time there! The small things. But also, I'd like to keep some stories secret so that when we chance upon one another and you ask me, "So how was Germany!?", I won't just say "Read my blog!". Rather, I will tell you of how I got lost, how I got free fruit from a woman, how I visited castles, and about how people see me naked on a daily basis.
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