Thursday
Orangerie (visited) – Av. des Champs Élysées – Grand Palais/ Petit Palais – Pont Alexandre III – Pl. des Invalides – Musée de l’Armée – Église du Dôme – Parc du Champ de Mars – Tour Eiffel – Jardins du Trocadéro
Pokewalker:
19.386
Friday
Montmartre
Moulin Rouge – Sacre Coeur – Moulin de la Galette (snails) – “illegal shopping”: fleece cover
Pokewalker:
17.792 Saturday
Car – Rue Daguerre – Parc du Champ de Mars –
Pokewalker:
17.965
Sunday
Les Catacombes de Paris (visited) – back Home
Pokewalker:
7.260
With the not so good weather forcast for wednesday we went to the Louvre in the ‘early’ morning.
Louvre
I don’t see a point in taking pictures of pictures, when I can get them in a decent quality from the museums guide so not many pictures were taken.
It’s kinda a misunderstanding from my point expecting english desciption of the pictures on the legends as well, as I’ll have to assume that the Louvre wants everybody to run around with those silly headphones to listen to the electronic guide in their native language for 6 euros. It’s not really expensive but I though I could do it old school style just admiring the works of our past and ‘reading’ about it. Next time I’ll know better .
We spent about 6hours in the Louvre itself, the Mona Lisa is impressing more so due to the crowd of people in front of it more busy taking pictures ranging from mobilephones ranging to full size digital cameras with exchangeable lenses than really looking at the Mona Lisa itself. Somewhat disturbing also – even more in churches but none the less somewhat annoying – the ignorance or the incompetence of the people to turn of their flash on what ever device they are taking pictures with in of ‘em both.
So leaving the Louvre we turned our aim for the
Notre Dame
After that tired and exhausted and (according to my pokewalker ) exactly 21.900 steps later we went home.
So, my gf and I got to Paris for a good week, Monday at 6am hitting the streets and arriving 18:00 at our Hotel.
Monday
Parking the car outside the hotel and getting the keycard for the parking garage and …. nothing.
Car didn’t start anymore. Good I’m ADAC Plus since June again. One hour later, the battery is down, for what ever reason, not only down but likely broken as well. I get it charged up to move the car to the parking lot but the suggestion is getting a new battery because, if the car goes off it will stay off.
Anyway, apart from that we arrived well and had a lovely walk through Montparnasse. From the Avenue du Maine to the Rue de la Gaité, where we had some delicious Crêpes, and a little bit around to the Boulevard Montparnasse.
Tour Montparnasse
Tuesday
Tuesday easy up at 9am. We get pointed fairly fast to small shop where we can get a new battery and with that: all duties done. Be onward to the fun stuff, which is …
Arc de Triomphe
From there we just strolled down the Avenue des Champs Elysées down by the …
Obelisque
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Jardin des Tuileries
… where we had some delicious Quiche further on to the …
Louvre
The Louvre itself is planned for another day. From there to St. Eustache bypassing St Roche
Rue des Pyramides
.. where Janine discovered something for Kornel:
T. Rex
We also passed Place Vendôme and several other smaller and bigger stuff on our way to Ste. Marie Madeleine which was our end of our first day tour. 19:00 we were back at the hotel exhausted but content nonetheless.
Das Bundesverdienstkreuz wird verliehen für besondere Leistungen auf politischem, wirtschaftlichem, kulturellem, geistigem oder ehrenamtlichem Gebiet.
Und was der Löw da “angestellt” hat ist schon eine sportliche Leistung aber es war letztendlich nur der dritte Platz. Auch mag das Deutsche Team ein guter Botschafter gewesen sein, repräsentative für Deutschland ist die Mannschaft nicht, wenn wir mal auf die Kluft schauen die Migranten in Deutschland von den Deutschen Bildungsweise trennt.
Desweiteren macht, das der Wolf … eh .. Wulff doch nur damit das positive Image, das der Löw mit seiner Mannschaft und seinem Team im politischen Sommerloch verbreitet auf Ihn abfärbt und damit seine Katastrophale Amtswahl in den Hintergrund fällt.
Die Staatsanwaltschaft Hannover hat strafrechtliche Vorermittlungen gegen den frisch gewählten Bundespräsidenten Christian Wulff sowie gegen die niedersächsische Agrarministerin Astrid Grotelüschen und den niedersächsischen Umweltminister Hans-Heinrich Sander wegen Verstoßes gegen das Gentechnikgesetz aufgenommen. Wie von der NRhZ am 25.Juni gemeldet, hatten das internationale Netzwerk „Aktion GEN-Klage“, das diese Mitteilung der Staatsanwaltschaft heute erhielt, und weitere Organisationen Strafanzeige gegen die Verantwortlichen in der Niedersächsischen Landesregierung wegen illegaler Freisetzung gentechnisch veränderter Pflanzen erstattet. mehr…
So I got up or better, my gf woke me up, twice, once at 5:00 and one time at 5:30 to ensure that I get out of bed to pick up three more Kendokas determined to wreck havok on the Tengu Cup 2010 in Frankfurt.
At least that was the plan, since we we’re just mere simple Kyus. But we were there to change that as well, but first things first.
I got three fights, two good, with the second one me getting a bit lazy and a not so good third one, where my opponent was actual smaller than me.
Something that is kinda disturbing for me despite my own size as I only train with people who are way larger, so I get used to that and everytime I meet somebody smaller or same size my kamae just doesn’t fit anymore.
Well to safe you all the words here the three fights:
1:0
1:1, hante for me
0:1 lost.
The rest of the tournament, we managed to do pretty well (at least from our point of view) but at the Dan geikos and later the team geikos there were some amazing brilliant and exciting matches to watch. Most impressive was the semi final Ichii from the Düsseldorf Dojo vs Kimura from swizz. It’s hard to describe in words but that fight was explosive.
Both, Düsseldorf and Swiss met again in the team finals. The teams finals were not less exciting to watch and I think I can say those fights belong to the best I have ever seen live.
Next day, after an extended dinner barbeque and early rest, Kyu test.
For two of us it should be the 1. Kyu for one the 2nd Kyu. To make a long story short. It wasn’t our best day, one of us failed and according to A. I barely made. Sad but true, there is more training to be done for us all.
After that: Sensei geiko, I managed to “fight” with Kimura sensei and Ichii sensii, I can only say very different in their style but great fun to practice with. I really got nervous, even more than for my own Kyu test waiting in line for my turn with Kimura sensei, as he had a few very intense geikos with those before me but I think I managed to make him smile once with, while showing him my possible best Men.
Same with Ichii and he even took the time to honor my efforts with a small “nice” as comment.
The third geiko I managed to do during the sensei and after that free geiko was Kumpf my instructor during the Kyu test. I hope I managed to show a bit more better part of my Kendo than during the exam.
Anyway a good and exhausting weekend, which adjust our Kendo focus a lot. As said early, there’s more training to be done!
Yeah, been very lazy on updating my blog recently.
RL is always a good excuse as is work and that is also basically the main thing.
Another is partially having an active Eve Online corporation so gaming is requiring more attention so I don’t post/blog while mindless mining asteroids in Eve Online.
Twitter stepped in for a while especially since you could do it lazy from work but currently nothing is really lazy at work, there down times where you can follow up a bit but I’m usually pretty occupied.
So what’s going on on my side.
The move went well, three floors down without an elevator, four up without an elevator so I had it done. They started with two ppl, moving most of the boxes out and then got a third one helping with the furniture. At the new appartment two more came to help so they were 5 in total. Good job on that, since I couldn’t just stand and watch (although I payed a fix price) I helped out a bit and so everything was in at 18:00 the same day.
May was a busy month, the move on Monday the 3rd, the weekend around the 8th the bachelor party of my sisters fiancé right after that a week in sweden due to work and on 22th the marriage of my sister with her now husband.
I survived though, most of it went smooth and now June in my new appartment, having unboxed as much as possible “inbetween” all those may dates, I’m sitting in a fairly cleared appartment.
My old was 2 rooms, 53m². The new one is three rooms, 69m² both had a balcony although on the new one I’m not allowed to barbeque with real fire. Im allowed to use the inner courtyard which is kinda nice with some green and trees. Also: car port ! Costs extra but now motorcycle and car are somewhat saved from all the nasty weather which we currently seem to have so much.
It’s half way in direction of my work, the route is a bit easier so I intend to go by bike to work, when it’s not raining only though.
I also started with Capoeira twice a week at Capoeira Franken. Like it very much and it’s a nice change from Kendo. A bit more physically exhausting .
Internet at home is working too again and ! my Wii is back online. No idea why it wouldn’t connect to my old wlan router anymore but with the move I got a new all in one router, DSL modem thingy and that one works just fine.
Also kitchen with a dish washer !! Yay.
Not going to say I’ll try to update more, we’ll see when I blog again .
Christian Springer alias Fonsi unterbricht Rede und Rolle beim Aschermittwoch der Kabarettisten, wirft seinen Hut und seine Jacke hin und spricht als Christian Springer zu Guido Westerwelle -
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