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max08 - Augsburg's summer street festival

The past three days we spent on the street... well, not literally :) But we spent quite a huge amount of time strolling up and down Maxstraße at the max08 street festival. Bands were playing, there was plenty of yummy food, and of course, lots of beer and cocktails. I pretty much met all kinds of people of my „past“ life, among them an old neighbor with her baby (ok, it’s already 2.5 years old, hi Sabine :) ), my first ever love, my parents, Tobse’s parents, my sister, ..., then again my sister (with her boyfriend), then my sister (with an Australian guy she met at Burger King in Munich ... huh?), friends, more friends, and some people you don’t want to meet :). Overall, it was great fun, but I need another weekend to relax now...

Enjoy the pics, particulary the ones of Saint Ulrich basilika in special max08 lighting. So cool ... we listened to an organ concert at 11 p.m. at night, with this kind of lighting. Awesome... more pics here.

Busy with life...

What can I say, I really want to post far more often, but I somehow don't find the right time to do it. There's so much to tell though...

A new baby girl has been born, the first child of one of my very best friends, and I'm so happy for him. The whole family is psyched, and I feel psyched too, even though I'm thousands of miles away. Must be the love waves :). So here she is, please welcome Maya Joy, a Texan-American/Keralite-Indian beauty:

Whatelse is new... For the past six months I've been working as a freelance PR-consultant with a growing client base and I'm wondering how the hell I got into it since I once swore to myself to never do PR again. Well... must be because I don't know what else to do :)

Then, I'm continuing to hang out with sports addicts, otherwise called my boyfriend and his family :). We went up to Höllentor (means "devil's gate," how appropriate) close to Germany's highest mountain the other day. The peak was at 2100 meters and I was BEAT. The next day we did some "easy biking" to Eib-Lake, which ended in a 3 km incline that almost threw me off the bike. Didn't help that it had 30C degrees outside. The cool lake made up for it though.

Then... Germany won against Turkey in the European soccer championships yesterday. I live in a neighborhood with a large Turkish population, and we first watched the game in a bar and later on from home (longer story). At home we watched it over the Web, and the coverage was delayed by a minute or so. So whenever we heard people screaming and yelling, we had to guess for a minute which side shot a goal :). Either way, we are in the finals, although Germany played a really bad game.

Public Viewing EURO 2008

Yesterday after work we took our bicycles and rode to Kulper Hütte, a beautiful beergarden at the river Wertach. We actually went there to have some food, ended up eating a Steckerlfisch (smoked fish) and watched a EURO 2008 soccer match (Sweden vs. Netherlands, pretty lame match actually). Either way, the beergarden was super nice and the fish very tasty :)

Visitors...

Ever since I moved here I've already had four visitors from overseas! Keep it up folks ... it's great to have you here. How great it can be you can read here. :)

Also, here is a preview to the next blog post Manu promised to write. The last evening ... also called "Augsburg meets San Francisco vibes" or "Manu falls in love with Gerhard"

Via Claudia Augusta

My longest bicycle ride ever has taken us today from Augsburg to Landsberg. 42 kilometers along the "Via Claudia Augusta", the ancient Roman road that led from the Po River lowlands and the Adriatic Sea all the way to Bavaria and the Danube.

Here's some history:
"It all began in 15 B.C. when the Roman General Drusus the Elder, the adopted son of Augustus, decided to open a passage through the Alps for the military incursions in Rhaetia-Vindelicia and in the Noricum, today known as Austria. The immense job of building the road was completed 60 years later in 46-47 A.D. by Drusus’s son, Emperor Claudius (41-54 A.D.), to connect people and goods between the Adriatic Sea and the Po  (...)"

And here are the pics. Next time I need to remember to take my Canon EOS30D with me ... please excuse the 3MP cell phone quality :)

Pusteblumen



Landsberg

Banana Royal :)

How to shower - Women vs. Men

Ha ha ha ... I was rofl-ing... :)

Video "being spießig"

Ha ha ha ... just got this from a friend. She found it on YouTube. This will explain spießig to you :)

Spießig

It's official: I'm becoming a German Spießer ... for the first time in my life I bought flowers today and decorated our balcony. I wonder what will be next? Any wild guesses? ;)

Dohlenfels climb

Today I did my first multiple rope lengths climb, also called "alpine tour." The Dohlenfels in Konstein is 50 meters (164 feet) high and it took 4 rope lengths to go all the way up. There were a bunch of scary parts too, but I only had to rest once, the other parts I climbed straight through.

Plus: we had 22C degrees and sunshine today (it's been great weather for the past 2 weeks now!), which means we got a sun tan to boot :)

P.S. And no, we didn't skip work ... today was Pfingstmontag, a bank holiday in Germany :)

Imogen Heap

This is so cool. I got this from a friend today and I loved it!