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So I guess I get an F on follow through, because here it is 17 June and I still have not posted my 12 of 12 for May. Horror! Even though it’s way after the fact, I thought I should post my Germany pictures because they are totally awesome, with a capital A, that rhymes with K, that stands for awesome!
The river Weser, which was diverted from the North Sea so Bremen could be a port town without all the inconvenience of actually being located next to an ocean.
Cool towers hiding behind other cool towers. This is right above the famous Bremen Town Musicians statue, the famous elite restaurant the Ratskellar, and a large dumpster.
A downtown view right next to a jewelry shop, of which I like to imagine is the Deutsch equivalent of Shane Co, my friend in the diamond business!
Swascelots in Germany! The scary dude walking in the foreground obviously wants to get in on the rampage action. One interesting side note in this picture is the red and white kiosks, where I won a chocolate bar in the national lottery. Such a useful, obtainable prize.
View down one of the main shopping streets on my day (singular!) off.
My cute compact room. Special highlight is the phone where I made enough calls with 10 Euros worth of phone cards to make the receptionist raise her eyebrows.
The view from my hotel room, complete with the most faithful and constant of trains, the Flugafen line.
Le Moulin! Awesome restaurant next to an ox-bow lake.
Another cool windmill picture, taken while eating at the restaurant.
The Bremen Town Musicians, in statuesque form. I think the cat looks rather like a weasel, but I held off on informing the city about it.
It is considered good luck to touch the donkey’s nose. I’m guessing the rooster really gets shafted on this one.
This dude looks kind of like he is going to jump off the wall and defend his church quite mightily. After all, it’s not the size of the army, but the fury of its onslaught!
Tulips! If I look tired in this picture it’s because it’s seven thirty in the morning and I have just eaten one of the largest continental breakfasts known to man.
This is the cold room at the IODP repository, where all of the cores for my M.S. thesis come from. It is here that cores are born! They keep it at 34˚, which is cold enough to simulate the ocean floor, but not so cold that all of the pore water freezes. You can see the hole in the giant moving wall of cores up near the top where my samples came from.
First noticeable excursion of the Leg 172 record. You can see the whitish color which marks the carbonate interval. As the sign indicates, it is awesome.
The Botterstruass, an apparently famous street where bums like to hang out and get blinded by the light reflecting off of this gold covered monstrosity.
My favorite Beergarten, right off the river. 250 mL of Pinot Grigio for 2 euros, which is either really beneficial or really detrimental on first dates.
The river Weser, which was diverted from the North Sea so Bremen could be a port town without all the inconvenience of actually being located next to an ocean.
Cool towers hiding behind other cool towers. This is right above the famous Bremen Town Musicians statue, the famous elite restaurant the Ratskellar, and a large dumpster.
A downtown view right next to a jewelry shop, of which I like to imagine is the Deutsch equivalent of Shane Co, my friend in the diamond business!
Swascelots in Germany! The scary dude walking in the foreground obviously wants to get in on the rampage action. One interesting side note in this picture is the red and white kiosks, where I won a chocolate bar in the national lottery. Such a useful, obtainable prize.
View down one of the main shopping streets on my day (singular!) off.
My cute compact room. Special highlight is the phone where I made enough calls with 10 Euros worth of phone cards to make the receptionist raise her eyebrows.
The view from my hotel room, complete with the most faithful and constant of trains, the Flugafen line.
Le Moulin! Awesome restaurant next to an ox-bow lake.
Another cool windmill picture, taken while eating at the restaurant.
The Bremen Town Musicians, in statuesque form. I think the cat looks rather like a weasel, but I held off on informing the city about it.
It is considered good luck to touch the donkey’s nose. I’m guessing the rooster really gets shafted on this one.
This dude looks kind of like he is going to jump off the wall and defend his church quite mightily. After all, it’s not the size of the army, but the fury of its onslaught!
Tulips! If I look tired in this picture it’s because it’s seven thirty in the morning and I have just eaten one of the largest continental breakfasts known to man.
This is the cold room at the IODP repository, where all of the cores for my M.S. thesis come from. It is here that cores are born! They keep it at 34˚, which is cold enough to simulate the ocean floor, but not so cold that all of the pore water freezes. You can see the hole in the giant moving wall of cores up near the top where my samples came from.
First noticeable excursion of the Leg 172 record. You can see the whitish color which marks the carbonate interval. As the sign indicates, it is awesome.
The Botterstruass, an apparently famous street where bums like to hang out and get blinded by the light reflecting off of this gold covered monstrosity.
My favorite Beergarten, right off the river. 250 mL of Pinot Grigio for 2 euros, which is either really beneficial or really detrimental on first dates.