Travel Pussy - yes you read that correctly!

For sale at the Wolfenbuttel bowling alley is the travel pussy for the man on the go. We made Jon go and buy us a couple at the vending machine in the gents toilets which was money well spent as this ingenious product has been the source of much hilarity. Click on the picture to see an enlarged version of the packaging.

A pub crawl through the Bute

So after the jet lag and a crazy week at work the 3 Auslanders decided to do a bit of a pub crawl through the Bute. One thing the Germans do well is serve beer - every brand of beer has it's own special glass of a specific shape. There are some very cute, very old pubs in Wolfenbuttel many with their own special brew or "kellerbier" - it would be quite easy to visit each of the pubs and never drink the same beer twice!

We also hit the Bowling alley which is pretty much the entertainment centre of town - strangely enough Martina and I can both bowl in the Northern Hemisphere maybe it has something to do with the Coriolis effect and I suspect that the lanes are a touch shorter too.

The Viking Festival - strangely no raping or pillaging in sight!

On my first full day we had an adventure into the nearby Harz mountains to visit a local Viking Festival at the ruins of Regenstein Castle. We enjoyed the snowy countryside, the demonstrations of viking life (but no raping and pillaging!) and we drank mead which actually didn't taste anywhere near as bad as it smelt (this is probably only exciting for people who read fantasy novels like Mazza and myself). On the way home though the temperature dropped so low that I thought I was going to die! I have a lot of acclimatising to do!

Arrival in a foreign land

Well I have made it to Germany safe and sound and into the loving arms of Martina and Jon - Wolfenbuttel has even managed to turn on some snow for me!

The first day was spent hugging and catching up and watching Jon sherpa the mattress I will be sleeping on through the streets of the Bute (from a friends 3rd floor apartment around the corner of M & J's cozy little 3rd floor apartment). I've also been reacquainted with many of the highlights of "the Bute" - the gun shop, the porn section of the DVD store, the cat skin on display next to incontinence pads in the window of some random old peoples store...Ahhhh..Germany what a place!