Gone Astray: Russell Johnson » Germany http://connectedtraveler.com/wordpress News, opinion, podcasts and video on travel, world culture, media, science and technology. Thu, 17 May 2012 22:28:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 2006-2009 rjohnson@connectedtraveler.com (Russell Johnson) rjohnson@connectedtraveler.com (Russell Johnson) travel 1440 http://connectedtraveler.com/images/RJHSBlog.jpg Gone Astray: Russell Johnson http://connectedtraveler.com/wordpress 144 144 A fresh quirky take on people and places around the world, travel, culture, humor, music Russell Johnson Russell Johnson rjohnson@connectedtraveler.com no no Cold Turkey in Heidelberg: Audio Story http://connectedtraveler.com/wordpress/2009/12/17/thanksgiving-cold-turkey-heidelberg/ http://connectedtraveler.com/wordpress/2009/12/17/thanksgiving-cold-turkey-heidelberg/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:47:21 +0000 Russell Johnson http://connectedtraveler.com/wordpress/?p=44 from connectedtraveler.com

Heidelberg Castle ©Russell Johnson What do you do when you are alone during a holiday, stuck in a place that doesn’t celebrate it?  A few years ago I flew to Germany the day before Thanksgiving for a 1/2 hour business meeting. The meeting was a bust and alone, in a foul mood on a bone-chilling [...]

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Heidelberg Castle ©Russell Johnson

What do you do when you are alone during a holiday, stuck in a place that doesn’t celebrate it?  A few years ago I flew to Germany the day before Thanksgiving for a 1/2 hour business meeting. The meeting was a bust and alone, in a foul mood on a bone-chilling afternoon, I boarded a train for Heidelberg where the Student Prince was alive and quite drunk. This is excerpt from an audio book of my stories that will be released by PRX, the Public Radio Exchange on iTunes and on CD early next year.

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AUDIO-MP3 Oktoberfest starts in September, this weekend in fact. I went to Oktoberfest a couple of years ago and did not have a beer. Nope, not one biermadchen’s tear of frothy brew, a sacrilege for which I will surely rot in some Faustian teetotler’s hell. But I did witness something that I had read about [...]

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Oktoberfest starts in September, this weekend in fact. I went to Oktoberfest a couple of years ago and did not have a beer. Nope, not one biermadchen’s tear of frothy brew, a sacrilege for which I will surely rot in some Faustian teetotler’s hell. But I did witness something that I had read about but never believed I would see.

Sober visions of Oktoberfest and EXCLUSIVE VIDEO OF TRAINED FLEAS Click Me

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Happy Birthday Lithuania! No it is not Oktoberfest, even though this beerhall is as big and as festive as the suds and sausage emporiums of Munich. I am at CEBIT, the yearly monster expo of technology in Hanover, Germany. It is so big, it is like a city, with grocery store, pharmacy and quite a [...]

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Happy Birthday Lithuania!

No it is not Oktoberfest, even though this beerhall is as big and as
festive as the suds and sausage emporiums of Munich. I am at CEBIT,
the yearly monster expo of technology in Hanover, Germany. It is so
big, it is like a city, with grocery store, pharmacy and quite a lively
beerhall catering to people from all over. The rowdyness awards are
shared by the Taiwanese, the Russians and the Lithuanians who stood on
a table and sang Happy Birthday to themselves.

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