http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/will_kruisin/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from will_kruisin en-us Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:17:52 +0000 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:17:52 +0000 I have been my last time in Oberstaufen... well my last time for a while at least.Prepare for Susan to be not much fun all year coz I really have to save all my pennies I really wanna come back here next year... If I had my way right now I would spend the year learning German and doing little else... but that could be the leaving talking well writingSo last weekend we had a great time down http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Oberstaufen/blog-242794.html ... because I will no longer be able to say that the last hand down my shirt belonged to a totally pissed German dude dressed as a patchwork chicken...and THAT my friends is an awesome beginning to a blog...It can only go downhill from here.So.. back in Germany good times My first weekend back was a quiet one it is so nice to be back home in Ulm again Back to the apartment the little P http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Baden-W-rttemberg/T-bingen/blog-240481.html Is it just me or is season 5 of the L Word camp beyond description And I am also getting this weird feeling that the writers are gonna have Jenny and Tina get together it's freaking me out.Anyway... So I went to London. Which... you know this being a travel blog I should really actually write about travel stuff right So the Wednesday in London was effing beautiful... Sun was shining a light http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-240286.html I think Fedde le Gand put it best when he said 'I LOVE THIS CITY'Of course he was talking about Detroit and whilst I have never been to Detroit and know very little about the city I can say without a doubt that if Fedde ever visited Brighton he would rerelease the track 'Put your hands or for Detroit' with the altered lyrics 'I THINK THIS CITY IS NOT WITHOUT IT'S OWN CHARM BUT YOU SHOULD http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/East-Sussex/Brighton/blog-239627.html Okay... I just want to precursor this entry by declaring as I certainly will do many more times by the end of this that I Susan Shaw aka Grotsky am a knob.Knob... Wanker...Dickhead... Idiot...Tosser...For the purposes of this blog let's just accept this classification as an indisputable fact.Just so that we're all on the same page and now I will go on with my story.Actually... first I just http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Clapham/blog-238072.html It always surprises me how many people I run into who haven't seen 'the day after tomorrow'.Not to be confused mainly by Aussie kids of course... or maybe that was just me with the book series 'tomorrow when the war began' 'the day after tomorrow' stars Jake Gyllenhaal or as he should be known as the cute brother of the most beautiful woman in the world Maggie Gyllenhaal bring it on Brend http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Grenoble/blog-237175.html I love France Well... that might be an inaccurate statement. It's like saying that I like my hometown in Innisfail when really I love our old home a farm 5 minutes from Innisfail in my memory and heartwarmingly also in Raphael's one of the best places that ever was and ever will be do I love the main street filled with people who live in Innisfail ugh not so much.So to be more accur http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Chamb-ry/blog-237142.html ... only one step away.Like four oh crap No this blog is supposed to be about four COUNTRIES in one day... not seasons.Oh well... PLadies and gentlemen welcome back to another addition of Grotsky's Blog This episode is brought to you by McDonald's Diam McFlurry we think it's worth sitting on a fence forPlease however be advised that there is a slight delay on the 'susan's world focusin http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Liechtenstein/Balzers/blog-237085.html This site is just so cool...I just spent like an hour looking around some truly inspiring blogs I would tell you all to go look at my favourites but then you would never come back to my little uninspiring blog now would you But seriously massive snaps to the guy who started this Ali just some dude who took of traveling and wanted a site where all his family could read about his travels so http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Oberstaufen/blog-234004.html Okay As I write this I am having the first relaxing day in what feels like 2 weeks... In actual fact it's been maybe 2 days but my time is all screwed up so please excuse any rash overstatements.Also please excuse any inevitable mistakes that will be present in this blog as I am writing on a french keyboard which is not that easy as it looks like this... You don't want to know how long it t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Oberstaufen/blog-233699.html So... Yet another morning of pain.I don't think I have ever loved water quite so much... water coffee orange juice apple juice apfelschules... if it was liquid I was so into it. Oh... but no champagne... I drew the liquid acceptance line there.Christine and her friends had organised a brunch over at Anna's house since all her 'gang' I guess were home for the holidays. There was so much f http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Oberstaufen/blog-232543.html The day of pain... after all the skiing well standing on skis anyway and ALL the walking the day before I woke up feeling more than slightly in bucketloads of pain. This day was also the arrival of Stuey who has brought with him a new kind of pain alcohol induced pain...It's awesome.We drove through fog in the morning down to Freidrichshafen airport... past the frozen alpsee through the s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Oberstaufen/blog-232242.html Before I came on this trip my mother would tell me about all the awesome things I would get to do with Warren and Christine I had been to visit before but only for one day in 2006 an awesome one day but only one day nonetheless.She always brought up skiing saying ooh you'll be able to go skiing To which I was like well... yes and I might even be able to travel around europe for my s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Oberstaufen/blog-232231.html You know...As much as everything that I am experiencing over here is amazing and unique and wonderful and ... amazing I really can't remember what I am doing from day to day.Perhaps it is pleasure overload.Anywho as I write this I finally feel free and in control of my hormones it is now 2008 I lost a day yesterday but I'll save that story for another blog and I just watched the first epi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Oberstaufen/blog-231456.html About 11 years ago Raphael and ... god that other little french dude what's his name bah About 11 years ago Raphael and Raphael's french friend used to tease me coz I spent one morning okay maybe like 15 mornings listening to well... watching the song 'Wannabe' from the Spice Girls. It was like nothing I had ever seen they were just so cool so different and whilst I didn't think http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/North-Rhine-Westphalia/Cologne/blog-230827.html Merry Christmas everyoneSo in Germany there are two celebrations that take place in December and neither of them involve Santa Claus. Early in December Nikolaus visits the kiddies and leaves lollies and presents in their shoes and then on Christmas eve at around 5pm the Christ Kind or Christ Child comes into the house and decorates the tree and leaves more presents for the kids.So on Chri http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Oberstaufen/blog-230451.html So... Back in Ulm... where it just kept getting colder and colder.On Sunday Doris and Hugo Christine's parents came up from Oberstaufen to visit the Weihnachtsmarkts. I don't think that we had ventured outside all day so come 3pm when we left the house... Holy craaaaaapuh it was so cold. so very coldI think it was about 6 degrees. I have never been that cold... and it was so windy Wa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Baden-W-rttemberg/Ulm/blog-229817.html So today or last weekend whichever way you want to look at it Warren dragged me off in search of snowWith word from the Algau that snow had finally started to fall all the ski passes seemed to be open so Warren and I headed down to the Fellhorn possibly the southernmost ski field in Germany very near the town of Oberstdorf the town that we visited last year with the giant ski jump.... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Oberstdorf/blog-229805.html Okay...So I have been slack since my last entry. Or rather I have been too busy sightseeing and studying Germany to even get online at all yeah that's right the second optionMeg... I could not be more ashamed of you. Kel I give you minimal respect for at least knowing me well enough to know the Google and IMDB would hold the answer to the the rest of you I award no respect and may god ha http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Baden-W-rttemberg/Ulm/blog-229798.html Well... not really.On Saturday we went out to Oberstaufen to chase some snow. The night before I went along with Warren and Christine to another of Warren's Christmas parties it was at this awesome greek restaurant and we all ate so much food We were totally stuffed and needed a big liein to sleep off all the food.Oh I offer respect to anyone who can tell me what the title of this blog is i http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Oberstaufen/blog-227050.html