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[fan_elune]

So you travel away to Germany and come back to an internet connection and what do you learn? Heath Ledger as the Joker? Seriously? I'm going to ignore the fact that it meants Paul and Jude still won't be acting together (...now I'm wondering if they're gonna cast Jake Gyllenhaal as Harvey Dent) because I'm still rooting for Brideshead Revisited and that's all I need as far as those two are concerned. But seriously, Heath Ledger? What? Paul or Adrien would've been so much better. It's not that I don't like Heath, I do. Sometimes despite myself. But come on Well. We'll see how he manages.

In semi-related news, the road trip has allowed me to listen to His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (thanks so much, the_grynne!), and I am in full support and then some of Paul and Nicole as Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter. That scene between them at the end of the book? Oh yes. Oooooh yes. Each of Asriel's scenes made me pause the book and replay it in my head with Paul instead. So much love.

In other news, we got to Berlin safely. We can't seem to manage to connect our laptops, which is a pain, but at least we have a connection. Cologne was pretty beautiful, and mostly the photo exhibition we saw at the Ludwig Museum was amazing and makes me itch to write a little something. It covered the history of photography, with some of the first types, daguerreotypes, etc. Very interesting, and somewhat unsettling, too. Also, the Cologne Cathedral looks much better from the outside than inside. And there were street performers! Between that, the Starbucks, the cream cheese, etc, it felt more like an English-speaking country than anything else. Except for the bit where I'm lucky if I manage to put three words together correctly. What do you mean I studied it for five years I should manage? Ooops?

Anyway. That was your German update of the day.

Comments

[honeyfitz.livejournal.com]

Hooray! You made it! My only German experience has been one night in Frankfurt (a hotel airport) and several waiting hours on various occasions at the airport itself. There are so many places I'd like to see...

Still, I'm looking forward to your updates!

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

I'll try and write one some time soon, promise, but god. So little time, such a talkative friendlist, and I'm desperately trying to catch up. *flails!* It's great, though. We went to the Wall museum today, it was impressive. Probably beat the whole night in an airport thing, yeah. :p

[heikki-cheren.livejournal.com]

Last (and first) time I went to Germany, I saw some Dr Pepper sold in a DVD rental store. So you might wanna pay attention to what's available in stores you go to. ;-)

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, thanks for the tip! I will definitely do. Mmmm. Thankyouthankyouthankyou. Crossing fingers now!

[heikki-cheren.livejournal.com]

Well, seems I forgot to post the "Don't keep your hopes too high" comment. So let's skip that part. ;-) Did you see red can?

Speaking about drink/food..... I can't remember if you had a place where to buy some oreos.... There's a supermarket selling them not far from where I work, I was wondering if it would be of any interest to someone this weeekend.

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

We found no Dr Pepper! Apart from in the KaDeWe, where it was even more expensive than it is here? But Peewai bought me some yesterday! Heeee!

I think we're good, really. Thanks! My Oreo craze has faded over the years, personally, and Joey isn't dying for any either. I wouldn't know about other people, though. Did anybody else have Oreo love?

[heikki-cheren.livejournal.com]

OK. So maybe it seems to be the same than here, then. Sold in a few random unexpected place, and unavailable in all the most logical stores. ;-)

"Did anybody else have Oreo love?"
Ah, well.. I think that kinda was the question implied in mine. ;-)

Then I won't try to see what my new special dessert taste like with oreos. I might try the original recipe, though. Or not. Depending on how boring it feels like doing it. And mostly on whether or not there's available appropriate containers... O;-)

[wields-a-pen.livejournal.com]

I love that Cathedral in Cologne, though it was under heavy construction when I was there two years ago, so I only could see the outside. Suppose I didn't miss much?

There's also a nice pizza place in the Cologne Hauptbanhof. Why I remember this, of all things, I'm not quite sure.

I truly, utterly loved Berlin. I'm a huge history geek, so my mind was swimming where ever I went. And seriously, I studied German for five years between high school and college and still mucked up the language when I was there! :/

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

No, you really didn't. Although I might be a cathedral snob due to being, you know, French, and from Reims at that. (As in Notre Dame de Paris isn't good enough for me. Well, the outside anyway. The inside is brilliant.)

I'm rambling. I like cathedrals. And any sort of awe-inspiring monuments. Sorry.

I'm not much of a history geek, or at least not about this piece of history, but we went to the Wall museum today and god. Some of those stories. And we walked along another piece of the wall they left up on purpose, with some old writings on it, such feelings. (I can't speak three words of German and worse yet I won't dare to. Like I was telling B, I think I need to be permanently tipsy to help with the daring.)