So, some random notes about my trip so far:
There isn't that much hazelnut candy in America, but this stuff is everywhere here. It seems that every vending machine, every bus stop snack counter, every cafe in northern central Germany has at least three kinds of candy chocolate bar involving hazelnut. This is okay by me, because I love the stuff. But where's all the peanut butter?
So, I got to eat on the train here. I took the InterCity Express - the ICEtrain - between Braunschweig and Köln, and they had a cute little dining car where I got to eat a salami and swiss and drink applejuice out of a glass-glass. The train car was all pink and full of mirrors and the seats were semi-circular blue crushed velvet stuff. I felt like I was eating in a '50s doll house. It was awesome.
There are also private cars with four seats where you can sit in relative peace and quiet. I chose one of those and read the entire time. Also very awesome.
PS: As soon as I get a camera, there will be a LOT of graffiti photos up here. The graffiti here is prevalent and beautiful. Soem of it's just names scrawled in black spraypaint, but some of it is really colorful or written high up on dangerous ledges. I actually saw a really nice piece done by someone with the tag "mozes" on a stopped ICEtrain. It's illegal, fast-done art. Quelle awesome.
There isn't that much hazelnut candy in America, but this stuff is everywhere here. It seems that every vending machine, every bus stop snack counter, every cafe in northern central Germany has at least three kinds of candy chocolate bar involving hazelnut. This is okay by me, because I love the stuff. But where's all the peanut butter?
So, I got to eat on the train here. I took the InterCity Express - the ICEtrain - between Braunschweig and Köln, and they had a cute little dining car where I got to eat a salami and swiss and drink applejuice out of a glass-glass. The train car was all pink and full of mirrors and the seats were semi-circular blue crushed velvet stuff. I felt like I was eating in a '50s doll house. It was awesome.
There are also private cars with four seats where you can sit in relative peace and quiet. I chose one of those and read the entire time. Also very awesome.
PS: As soon as I get a camera, there will be a LOT of graffiti photos up here. The graffiti here is prevalent and beautiful. Soem of it's just names scrawled in black spraypaint, but some of it is really colorful or written high up on dangerous ledges. I actually saw a really nice piece done by someone with the tag "mozes" on a stopped ICEtrain. It's illegal, fast-done art. Quelle awesome.
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Dining cars always remind me of the classy things that could've been if we had a sweet rail system here instead of a tangle of interstate highways.
Yeah, I totally agree. I felt quite classy on the train, anyway.
Funny thing about the graffiti: Germans always think that this is totally prevalent in the States... When I was in NY for the first time I was totally amazed that it was a)clean and b) NO graffiti what so ever, sure on some trains, but nowhere else... sure in some poorer areas...
In Germany though you have it everywhere and honestly, while some paintings are nothing but pure and beautiful art, most of the tags are simply ugly and plainly annoying...
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