Music on the street

So, the curse of the number 9 strikes again...

whilst wandering  in down town Stuttgart yesterday afternoon.. I saw the most oddly fascinating thing,

a scary cool lady on the street playing odd Halloween styled music...on a saw

I took a picture...ALTHOUGH...

I never remember her looking directly at the screen as I took the picture..Its the curse again for sure!!!! see my post here.for the record she had realll talent and played the saw like no other ive ever seen

some of the other cool street acts...

man playing horn to popular melodies as Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie ( ABBA) and Achie Breaky Heart ( ??)

he had real soul in his performance :-)

man honking on sax whilst a parrot sat on head, parrot squawked every now again...emm...entertaining!!

no caption needed...

lol..!!

ruairi :-)

The concer, pigeon, noodle lampost and lady post...

Its Officially Autumn(!) , fall, herbstlich,

or whatever you choose to call it.

 (well not for 5 days or so)

BUT

  the finding of my first concer that practically fell into my hand* prooves that it is upon us.

*well like a meter away, which is just as good...

Ive been lucky to have had the company of a fellow Erasmus who goes by the name of  Frau Turner these past days- YAY

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

justs a few of the things that have gone down in Stuttgart ALREADY since her arrival....

1)

Frau walked intoGOT SERVED by a lamp post on seeing a picture of the number 9 to Aldwich!!!!!!!!!... 

funniest.thing.ever

hopefully this poster of the bus, or of course the bus itself isn't haunted/cursed....

2)

Whilst cakeing ourselves up on kuchen

in a cake dealership, a pigeon raided the cake shop, unfortunately,  Frau's attempts to mediate the situation angered the foul fowl and he unleashed his wrath on ME!!!!  

Ie. he/she flew around and knocked lots of things down...

seriously traumatic like.
I even considered using my newly found concer as a weapon and throwing it at the bird.

see attached facebook group...

Pigeons Are Getting WAY Too Brave Thesedays...

Im a fully paid up and loyal follower. I thought I left argumentative pigeons behind in London...

Just in case you didn't quite catch a look, via the crapp picture i took..

NOT KIDDING....

(major LOls!!)

3)Found an amazing noodle place*, noodle and lychee juice for c. 4euro.... besides, the lovely Asian lady working the stall said she liked my hair and wanted to come to Gross Schlagzeug Nacht :-)

 *name and details to follow

 yummmm....

4)We met an amazing American lady from Colorado and subsequently had a huge conversation with her for ages about culture and travel- she suggested we go to Baden Baden, it sounds like the Jersey Shore of Deuchland! Has anyone who might be reading ever been to Germany ( or Baden Baden?) Can you recommend any place worth visiting??

I asked her to come and look at my blog, hopefully she will...IF YOUR READING THIS LOVELY LADY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WISDOM AND WE HOPE YOU GOT HOME OK :-)

ruairi :-) 

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Times on Sunday time

 

After purposely scouring the streets of Stuttgart in the hope of finding a newsagents that was...

1) open  ....EVERYTHING is closed on Sundays in Germany

2)that had an international news section

3) selling the Sunday Times as part of there international news section

4) selling the Sunday Times with the magazine supplements as part of their international news section

Eventually, after a half mornings search... I hit the jackpot and scored the paper...

(minus the magazines)

 

One little problem though, look closer...

Yes, you see correctly, what is usually a bumper magazine laden package for the grand oul price of 2 pounds is a COMPLETELY slightly anorexic slimmed down version of my favorite newspaper charged at 5 euro and 10 cents, slightly disappointing...

( its the 10 cents extra for Germany that insulted me the most, I mean WTF!)

So, I leanet the hard way that many of the newspapers I am familiar with and enjoy reading seem to also have an "International Edition"

Which I read as..... 

a watered down, more expensive version of the publication, with less and older articles.

ALTHOUGH, I have to admit, It WAS WAS worth it and I can understand the reasons for such changes- I mean I am in a different country and all... I should be gratefuller !

 There was nothing more comforting than panning out with the times and just enjoying peace and quiet. There were some fantastic articles on Eduction and in particular, a  chap by the name of Gareth Malone- whos work as an music and education animateur, im a big fan of.

I was so happy- It was as if all my Christmases had come at once :-D

im tempted to buy as behind the veneer of Christmas decorations, lies cheap cheap chocolate goodness

Whaaaait ein minueten

Christmas decorations in Lidl already, ALREADY!

ruairi :-)