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The marching band I hear outside my window is a reminder that the Rhineland Marching Season has begun.

Typically, they will march through the cold (and it's freezing here tonight) in uniform and time from where they practice to the nearest pub, where they will play a number or two and be rewarded with a round of beer (whether the reward is for playing or stopping, I have no idea). Then on to the next one, and so on until they get to their regular "local", where their festivities shall begin - or to the regular local of a similar club, where they will put in a guest appearance (i.e. play music and drink beer).

And so on until Ash Wednesday...

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Sat Nov 22nd, 2008 at 01:46:41 PM EST
Last night i received an SMS informing me that my Stammkneipe, Saxo (Brickhouse) has won the number one whisky bar in Germany at Interwhisky Frankfurt.  While the head of the bar deserves much credit, the win probably goes (tongue in cheek or foot in mouth) to the main customers (Stammkunden.)

Nummer Einz in Deutschland!!!  I'm going there now to celebrate with Mike, our fearless whiskykenner.  (If you realize that this tiny kneipe in Remscheid beat some of the best hotel bars in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, as well as whisky havens going back centuries, you can grasp what this means.)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Sat Nov 22nd, 2008 at 02:18:10 PM EST
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No flat blue sky this evening -

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Earlier a guitarist was playing Satie's Gymnopédies.

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Then nice biere de noel in the local bar.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Sat Nov 22nd, 2008 at 02:20:10 PM EST
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