Blogs from Bremen, Germany, Europe - page 9

It has been brought to my attention that my blog ha not contained sufficent numbers of 'funny bits' for the punters who are reading for a cheap thrill, so here are four= 1 Biking along kustenkanal I suddenly, involuntarily, burst into song.... into song in german. The song went 'Ich bin ein auto/...' fortunately for the world I stopped at that one line but the presence of german and dutch all around me is obivously having an effect, not only does it mke me burst into song but my mind plays little snippets of german sounding words as I bike 'ich, isch, und, etc' 2 When I went to the bed and breakfast on the first night I introdued myself as Clint and the litle old lady introduced herself as 'Frau Memblick' (well, something like that). ... read more

Our train trip to Germany wasn't the best experience. Our train from Holland was delayed for about an hour after a broken down goods train was blocking the tracks, which meant we missed our connecting train to Bremen. After we arrived late in Bremen, the camp ground was about an hours walk from the tram stop our Lonely Planet Guide advised us to get off at. We were extra annoyed when we later found out there was a bus that stopped right outside the campsite. Luckily we made it there before the reception closed, and after taking off our heavy bags and setting up, we enjoyed a great meal in a superb lakeside setting. We spent the following 2 days exploring the beautiful city of Bremen. In the centre were beautiful old buildings and streets. The ... read more

If there's one thing that I've learnt in Bremen in the past months is that if its raining it's not one of those lovely 'sit inside with a book days'. Because those days happen all too often and if you abide by that rule you'll become a hermit. So being the 30th of August, my birthday, I decided to go and wander the streets of Bremen in the rain and discover some things that until now I never knew existed. So this blog is essentially another photo album of images that have been taken around Bremen on a rainy day, which if you know Bremen in winter is quite common. Just so you have something to read if you want, I'm gonna add some of my views on the photos I've taken, feel free to read ... read more

Werder Bremen vs Bayer 04 Leverkusen... the match we had been waiting for. Werder Bremens first home game of the 2006/2007 season and we had tickets. Making it our first live European soccer game. Saturday the 19th of August, 2006 was match day. That morning we dressed our selves to support Werder our adopted team in true Bremen style. With scarves in hand we were off. Our only problem, again a lack of German vocabulary. Unable to sing Werders tunes in German we had to modify them a little, to fit in. Our version of their club song went some thing like this... "Wer-der Brem-men.... something, something yeh... do-di-do-do-doo-do do-di-do-do-doooo" From our house we ventured into town to meet the others and made our way to Wesser Stadium. Conviently there was a bus waiting at the ... read more

Sonntag 6th August, 2006. Today was the Fan Day for SV Werder Bremen - the füßball team which we have adopted while we live here in Germany. We decided to check the festivities out and the day began with a 9:30am training session, which we got up bright and early to go and see. After this, there was the official presentation of the 2006/2007 team and then players were situated at each of the sponsors stands signing autographs and taking photos. We watched the training session along with scores of other Werder faithfuls in the nice morning heat then made out way through the crowds to the sponsor stands to line up for autographs. The players were signing between the hours of 12 noon and 2 pm, and we left the training session at 10:45. We ... read more