Stupid html codes. Grumble grumble. Gave up on tripod & resorted to blogger. Just wanted to post this great SMH bit on Pauline Hanson (who, to my horror, has moved to NSW & is running in the elections) :
Ms Hanson rejected criticism that she knew nothing about NSW politics.
"I'm not a boat person; I do live in this country," she said.
Sunday, February 23, 2003
Hello,
Will be a brief update as about to be picked up. Is by an Italian though, so could be any time between now & next Monday. Finally got the internet in my room - hurrah. Am living in another kollegium now - further north & virtually in the middle of a forest. If lucky can see cute little squirrels jumping in the trees outside the kitchen. V. excting. Last week I went to stay with Kathy in Aachen, Germany for 4 nights. had a great time, mainly just slobbing about, talking & cooking tofu. We did get in some sight-seeing though. Saw some smelly sulphurous Roman baths & some of the town. On the last day, we drove to the point where the boarders of Germany, The Netherlands & Belgium meet. Was a very strange concept to put my hand in 3 countries at once. We then went to Belgium & I drank some tasty Belgian beer. I was quite confused driving through Belgium, as the signs kept switching between German & French as we passed through towns, so I was never sure whether or not we'd crossed the German boarder again. Here's an update from Colin:
Hey everyone, whats going on,
its been a hectic sort of week or so...left Barcelona
with no real aim in mind, met another interailer on
the train, Emily from America, so we've been going
crazy on the trains, in three days we went
Barcelona-Cerbene (on French-Spanish
border)-Strausburg-Zurich-Vienna-Rome-Genova, just
going wherever the trains were going, got some nice
green in Zurich, but then had to give it to the
Italian police at the border....oh well....Stayed a
couple of days in Genova, crazy city, very steep, lots
of stairs and stuff....ate plenty pizza, bought nice
new Austrian army jacket, then Milan, more pizza, too
much wine, we just made a train to Amsterdam, now been
here for a couple of days, head off tomorrow or the
day after, Berlin then Krakow, hopefully further East,
but we'll see, my plan to spend heaps of time in
eastern Europe is being thwarted by the ease of
getting trains around western Europe, anyhoo,
seeya
the Dread Pirate Rogerson
Lord of the High Seas
Queen of Australia
Will be a brief update as about to be picked up. Is by an Italian though, so could be any time between now & next Monday. Finally got the internet in my room - hurrah. Am living in another kollegium now - further north & virtually in the middle of a forest. If lucky can see cute little squirrels jumping in the trees outside the kitchen. V. excting. Last week I went to stay with Kathy in Aachen, Germany for 4 nights. had a great time, mainly just slobbing about, talking & cooking tofu. We did get in some sight-seeing though. Saw some smelly sulphurous Roman baths & some of the town. On the last day, we drove to the point where the boarders of Germany, The Netherlands & Belgium meet. Was a very strange concept to put my hand in 3 countries at once. We then went to Belgium & I drank some tasty Belgian beer. I was quite confused driving through Belgium, as the signs kept switching between German & French as we passed through towns, so I was never sure whether or not we'd crossed the German boarder again. Here's an update from Colin:
Hey everyone, whats going on,
its been a hectic sort of week or so...left Barcelona
with no real aim in mind, met another interailer on
the train, Emily from America, so we've been going
crazy on the trains, in three days we went
Barcelona-Cerbene (on French-Spanish
border)-Strausburg-Zurich-Vienna-Rome-Genova, just
going wherever the trains were going, got some nice
green in Zurich, but then had to give it to the
Italian police at the border....oh well....Stayed a
couple of days in Genova, crazy city, very steep, lots
of stairs and stuff....ate plenty pizza, bought nice
new Austrian army jacket, then Milan, more pizza, too
much wine, we just made a train to Amsterdam, now been
here for a couple of days, head off tomorrow or the
day after, Berlin then Krakow, hopefully further East,
but we'll see, my plan to spend heaps of time in
eastern Europe is being thwarted by the ease of
getting trains around western Europe, anyhoo,
seeya
the Dread Pirate Rogerson
Lord of the High Seas
Queen of Australia
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