(mehr) Abstand - heute: München

Hier ein paar nette Links rund um die wunderbare Stadt München:

• Ein Muss: der Besuch an der Isar


• Weekend in München (Mediathek-Film, 15 min)


• Prinz Myshkin (vegetarisches (auch veganes) Restaurant in der Nähe des Sendlinger Tores, extrem leckers Essen und einen fast schon pantomimisch begabten, charmanten Kellner)


• Das "Aroma" (soll ein sehr empfehlenswertes Café sein... war leider (noch) nicht dort)

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Funny moments (1)

Yesterday - after a long time ago - I travelled by train again. Because of the following story, I decided to start a little sporadic column called "funny moments":

Usually the ticket collector ("Zugbegleiter") makes an annoncement like this: "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome on the train from x to y. We hope you enjoy the ride.... (and so on)".
Yesterday it was like this: "Ladies and Gentlemen, my name is ... and I am the main locomotive driver welcoming you on the train from Ingolstadt to Munich. Due to job cuts this train is running without any ticket collector today. We hope you enjoy the ride."

:o)

Montain view again.... or "finally I got a new laptop"... or "using linux instead of windows"

Some days ago I realised that the alps and the lake constance were almost clearly visible again after a couple of foggy and cloudy weeks. So I took a photo - and since I am now owner of a brandnew Acer laptop with a damn fast 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") it was quite easy to share. Even if the old digicam used to work only with windows. In my point of view Linux has already catched up with Windows, at least for everyday usage. What about you? Do you use Linux or Windows - and why? Or are you using both?

rund um den bodensee... gibt's auch kinos

Und in einem selbigen war ich gestern. Soulkitchen hieß der Film und war absolut genial. Ich kann ihn schwer beschreiben, weil er so anders war als "übliche" Kinofilme. Aus meiner Sicht ist die Quintessenz, sich nicht von seinen Träumen abbringen zu lassen und sich glücklich zu schätzen über die wirklichen Freunde, die man hat. So gesehen eigentlich doch wieder "mainstream" - aber im positiven Sinne. Am besten Ihr macht Euch selbst ein Bild (und schreibt dann Eure Sicht der Dinge hier ;-)).

After the move

Sodale, Zeit um mich auch mal hier "rund um den Bodensee" wieder zurück zu melden. :-) Der Umzug liegt zwar nun schon eine ganze Weile zurück (und ich hab mich hier viel zu selten blicken lassen), aber dennoch möchte ich Euch folgenden Nach-Umzugs-Tipp nicht vorenthalten:

• Passt beim Raus- bzw. Reintragen auf die Wohnung auf, d.h. lasst keine Wertsachen in der Wohnung liegen bzw. organisiert Euch so, dass immer jemand in der Wohnung ist! Es gibt nämlich leider do dreiste Menschen, die Umzüge gezielt ausnutzen und mal eben so in die Wohnung reinlaufen um Taschen zu durchwühlen! Glücklicherweise ist bei mir nichts weggekommen. Strange ist das Gefühl dennoch!

Back again... or "vanilla sugar"

As everything is settled again after my move in September I'd like to revive my blog this evening. Ok, to be honest, it took quite a long while to get everything going again. It's now end of November and I just drilled the last two holes in the wall in order to install my oversized pinboard on Friday.

I thought, as a "first" post I'd share my experience of self-made vanilla sugar with you: as Christmas time comes along with baking sessions (not too many, as I am not a baking-queen ;-)) I bought two vanilla pods some weeks ago. This evening I put some sugar in a small glass and opened the pods to get the pulp out. I mixed it with the sugar and it really looks like vanilla sugar right now. And it smells soooooo delicious. Moreover, the whole kitchen is now smelling after vanilla. :-)
I am really looking forward to producing the first "Vanillekipferl" with home-made vanilla sugar.

Two sides of a medal

This evening I decided to ride home through the woods and over the fields - instead of cycling besides the streets - in order to come down from a long working day. I passed an old barn in the middle of nowhere. Last year in autumn I read an advertisement on this barn's door: reserve your St. Martin's goose now! Today there I saw a huge enclosement with some dozens of geese eating, walking over the green grass or just lying in the evening sun.
As I am a vegetarian and I really love animals, my first though was: Damn! Those poor geese won't live to see this winter or next spring. Not considering reality for a moment I really wanted to save them... perhaps by buying all the future St. Martin's roast geese until they are still alive. But where to keep a bunch of goose?
The second thought was then: these geese are somehow lucky - compared to other geese vegetating in narrow, dirty boxes perhaps even fattened in order to kill them soon to produce foie gras. Compared to them those geese I saw have a short but species-appropriate life.

And in my point of view this goose story is only an example of so many things in life that have two sides: a sad one and a lucky one. A serious and an easy one. - The art is to recognise both and to decide which one is the more powerful for oneself.

Do you have any thoughts on this topic you want to share?