Saturday 25 August 2007

My 200th Geocache

Wow...today I found my 200th Geocache. I am a member of Geocaching.com only since October 2006 and my first found was October 25th. So, it took me exactly 10 months to find 200 Geocaches. Not bad. A lot of memories belong to each and every single cache. There is always a story behind it even though the story itself is not always that interesting ;-)

Today we had no plans for this saturday and took the chance to go out geocahing all together. We did not want to make a huge effort on a difficult cache and so we decided to visit 2 traditionals, only 15 kilometres from our home.

The first cache (Am Rande des Brammer Moors) was situated in an active moor..so we had to watch our steps to not get lost forever ;-)...*joking*. It was a nice walk of 2 kilometres in a silent forest. The cache was hidden pretty well and we searched for about 15 minutes until we found it. It was hidden behind a rock, just above a small beck. To grab it I had to do kind of an athletic movement to not fall into that little creek.

It was fun and we signed the logbook together. The only thing negative was the fact that it was only a very small container (film-canister only) and so Jale had no chance to do any trading in this cache box.

Mein 200. Cache

Dieser Samstag war seit langem mal wieder die Chance für uns 3 gemeinsam cachen zu gehen. Da wir auch keine "Gewalt Tour" oder etwas zu schwieriges machen wollten, haben wir uns 2 Tradis in der Nähe Harpstedts ausgesucht. Der erste war ein schöner Spaziergang Am Rande des Brammer Moors. Ein sehr schönes kleines Versteck, allerdings musste ich mal wieder den Kopf schütteln...eine Filmdose in einem riesigen, tollen Waldgebiet.
Der Owner hat mir allerdings später erzählt das es sich hier um eine Art Spontan Cache handelt und er ernsthaft überlegt die Dose gegen eine größere auszutauschen.

Wie auch immer...uns hats gefallen und ganz besonders Jale war angetan von Wasser, Steinen und Bäumen-sehr abenteuerlich für sie.

Friday 24 August 2007

Date or Shoes

This morning I went to work by car. The first time since 2 weeks again. And I was listening to a local radio station where they were playing kind of a telephone game called "Date or Shoes" with 2 of the listeners.

It went like this: The radio station called a woman and said that there is a man who wants to date her. She knows him from her work, freetime or somewhere else and live on air she was asked to have a guess who this mysterious admirer could be. He was listening in silence live to all this on another line. The woman sounded very uncomfortable while guessing who this man could be. She guessed 3 times wrong and finally she was told who this admirer was.
Now it was her turn to decide if she wanted to date him (a weekend in france paid by the radio station) or is she would prefer just a pair of new shoes!!

Isn't that sick?? What are those games good for?? To humiliate people or just to satisfy their search for sensations and their voyeurism???
Unbelievable and disgusting habits on my favourite media nowadays..........what do you think of this??

Saturday 18 August 2007

La Strada


Today we took a walk through Bremen again and all over sudden noticed that there was "La Strada" - the street circus festival taking place in Bremen. We couldn't see too much of all the performances because it was saturday afternoon, sunny and warm...it simply was too crowded. And since the artists don't perform on stages but on the streets, it is not too easy to see anything if you stand in 10th row or something. But what we saw was an impressive show of an english/dutch couple ("Fullstop Acrobatic Theatre") performing a mix of acrobatics and theatre play...Highly recommended...very impressive...very professional.
If you are interested, here is the official information. Check out the site if you like.
Since thirteen years
the international street circus festival LA STRADA takes place in Bremen.
The festival offers a surprising and exciting programme and changes for one weekend the atmosphere in the town. Acrobats and artists, dancers and dreamers, clowns and comedians, mimes and performers, LA STRADA offers all aspects of street performing arts.
This summerly street circus spectacle has become one of the largest and most colourful festivals of its type and is well known all over the world.
During four days international artists present the freaky and flashy but also the quiet and beautiful aspects of street theatre for free. In the evenings, the LA STRADA artists perform highlights of their shows at the great Circus Gala. The visitors support the festival by buying the festival programme and the festival button.

Thursday 16 August 2007

Author Writes Entire Novel on Cellphone

for all those of you who go crazy for writing text messages on their mobile phones.....found this on www.mediabistro.com


When we say "mobile media," this isn't what we usually have in mind. Still, props go to Robert Bernocco, an Italian IT professional who penned an entire 384-page science fiction novel using the T9 text system on his Nokia cellphone.


"It really was a time management issue. He had a book in him and really wanted to write it but found he just didn't have the time to sit and do it on a computer," said Gail Jordan, PR director at the book's publishers, Lulu.com, in the Reuters article.


Sunday 12 August 2007

Swinging Worship

Some days ago I posted a note about the Bremen Jazz Festival.
Today it was the last day of the festival and it was a sunny day, so we intended to join the crowd again. First we took part in the worship held in the St. Petri Dom and a band of the Bremen Jazz Festival, the "Swing Company" was the musical support inside the church. They played songs like "When the Saints", "Amen", "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen" and lots of german traditionals too. Well, I like participating in the worship and especially in such famous and impressive churches as the Bremen "St. Petri Dom", but I did not like the music, I did not like the way how the sermon was preached. So, I let my thoughts flow free into this wide church and when my soul landed back in reality, I felt as if only 10 minutes and not 90 minutes had passed.

But I really was proud of Jale who was with us and she was such a good girl for all this long 90 minutes. What a great personality already!!!

After the worship, we spent more then 4 hours in Bremen city again, listening to the music, strolling around, having some snacks and cookies. But it was not as nice as it was some days before. Why??? Well, all shops were opened this sunday afternoon (usually in germany all shops are closed on sundays), the sun was shining and a lot of music was flooding the streets of the city centre. It was a huge crowd...everyone was friendly and relaxed but it was full of people and you had to queue everywhere for everything. Not really "my cup of tea"...Besides that, the music today was more like Jazz for old aged, not like an adventureous trip.

Anyway it was a good day for us and for some hours I forgot that tomorrow will be my first working day again after 6 weeks of absense....omg...how can that possibly work out good at all?????????????????

Thursday 9 August 2007

Bremen Jazz Festival


Today we visited the Bremen Jazz Festival.
On 3 stages in the city centre of Bremen there will be about 200 musicians performing Jazz and Swing music of different kinds. From traditional New Orleans Jazz to Blues, Free Jazz, Son/Salsa, Improvisations and old fashioned smooth and soft Swing.

It was the first time that Jale was with us late in the evening and we all enjoyed it so much. The first band we met near a shopping mall. A marching band from Netherlands performing the traditional New Orleans Jazz on the streets. Jale had a 30 minutes warm-up for dancing here ;-)

Around 8.00 p.m. we were at the biggest stage on market square to join the concert of the "Flying Soul Toasters". That was impressive!!! A band of 10 musicians including a fantastic horn section and 3 singers. All dressed in black suits and wearing sunglasses they were performing a party-music. They played power Blues and Soul songs of a wide range from Blues Brothers Band, James Brown, Aretha Franklin etc. etc. That was the perfect music for an open-air party and none was able to stand still there. A perfect concert!

After we danced an hour in the first row, Jale began to get tired and so we made our way back to the car. On our way, there was another stage where a band called "Casino" was performing improvisations on traditional Cuban Son and Salsa music. They played "unplugged" and it was fascinating. A mix between fun, hot temper, rhythm but also melancholy and sentimentality. I danced there for some 15 minutes more, with Jale on my arms, before we returned back home.
I am sure that we will remind this night for a long time.

The Bremen Jazz Festival will last from August 09th - 12th and I hope that we will find the time to take part again.

Tuesday 7 August 2007

Geocaching with iPod

Wow...a huge geocaching revival day today. Jale wanted to spend a day with her godmother and so I took a day off too. Took a can of coffee and some fruits with me and went off to explore some more of the countryside surrounding my hometown.

There was something special on my Geocaching tour today. I did not take any printed cache description with me. It was my first day of "paperless caching". All the bookmarks of the caches that I am intending to visit are now saved to my iPod as text files. That worked out pretty good and I had a very succesfull and relaxed day with 11 founds.
10 of them have been old fashioned traditional caches but the first one was a new published multi-cache and I was only the second to find it.

Here are the caches that I found today:
Immer Revival
Midnight Oil
Schäferei in Westerholt
Der Fluss des Vergessens
Tilly's Biotop
Ich hab's im Kreuz
Wildenloh Team Süd
Kai's Kronkorken
Seniorensee
marsnob1
HnF-Flugplatz Hatten

Monday 6 August 2007

Another sunny day ...another beach

When I woke up this morning another super sunny day had just started off and I was still thinking about the day before...near the sea...in the sun....hmmmmm...(I even found some white sand corns in my bed ;-)) when all over sudden my mobile phone rang and my friend called me and asked if we wouldn't like to join him. He has a caravan standing on a camping site near a sea and he was spending some days there with his 5 y.o. son Marvin. Wow, that fitted perfect to my intentions and in the end this day was even more lazy than the day before for me. Jale played with Marvin all the day and we sat in our chairs at the private beach with our feet in the water and enjoyed the sun.
It was nice to have so much time to talk and to be able to watch at human behaviours at the beaches...very interesting studies!!!
Some were like this:

beach girl....

Sunday 5 August 2007

Langeoog


A day off at the North Sea Island Nordseeinsel Langeoog is like a longer vacation in a compressed form to us. The moment you arrive at the pier, you only have eyes for all the maritime stuff around you.

Seagulls are crowing every around, the salty wind is whispering like "welcome" and the waves with their monotonous sound are giving you a peacefull feeling.
Today it was sunday and high time for tourists and even low tide but with 4 boats the ferry boat company somehow managed to bring them all over to the island.
We did nothing but spending the day at the beach. We played in water, jumped the waves and did a little boat ride. We had a good picnic with fruits and vegetables, took an extended sun-bath and nearly forgot the time when the clock stroke 4.30 p.m. and we had to hurry to catch the last boat back to the mainland.


But late in the evening, when I washed away a kilogram of beach sand and salt from my skin, I felt a bit sentimental...another vacation has gone. But none can take the images and memories of this day away from me.