Hay-on-wye

Hay-on-wye is an amazing place, they have loads of cafes, welsh sign posts, a great shop which sells fudge and stuff. Very pretty area.

Oh and it has some books there too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay-on-wye#Book_town




Of course I went with my favorite ladies. Abi and Christy (Christy is on the right in this picture). Note Abi is not in this picture :-)

Thanks for a lovely day guys xx

Frühstück

For my German friends... this is how breakfast is supposed to look:

Home

I thought I would write a quick post to thanks and to let everyone know I am home, and the journey was okay with flights on time etc.

Thanks to everyone in Germany for making me feel welcome and looking after me for the last 9 weeks, I have had a great time in and out of the work place.

I'm now home safe and sound with a full fridge (courtesy of my Mom) and a load of stuff in my flat fixed (courtesy of my Dad) and a pile of opened post (courtesy of Abi).

My initial plan for this week is to:
a) Go and see "The Dark Knight" at the cinema
b) Unpack.

A Busy, fun filled week :-)

End of days (working days at RWE Energy that is)

The last day.... Mahlzeit :-)

A few faces missing here, due to Holidays, Babys and Blood poisoning :-(

So.... have a good holiday, good luck with the Baby and get well soon!


Christiane & Wolfram








Hard at work in the office...

This actually was very hard work as I am a left hander and I am trying to putt right handed here...








I thought I should mention the first English person I met in Dortmund... Mr Taylor!










So you understand, I bought a lot of chocolate this week for everyone. I walk out the office and come back a little later and in true German spirt, the messy pile of sweets that was covering the desk was turned into this...









Just incase you are wondering... this is what schnitzel looks like.









And last, but not least, this is (for want of a better word) my handler - Karl-Heinz.

Last Night Out... at the beach

Last night I went out with Kay and Jan to a cool Bar (in the North oooooh!). It has a great look with a beach and you can even get deck chairs if it takes your fancy.










A view from the beach...








This has been Kay's default postion recently... a woman is involved of course :-)

Westfallen Park

Next door to work (and therefore 5 mins from me) is a huge and amazing park. It has loads of cafes, a cabel car (Me in one on the left) and loads of other stuff.

I must admit, this was a Sunday afternoon afair and I intentionally wanted to unwind, so I took Michel Thomas (German Language tutor) on my ipod shuffle, a copy of "Harry Potter: Und der Stein der Weisen" and some sun cream and sat out for an hour. Once the Sun was finally covered over I went for a wonder....



Another one from the cabel car....







Not exactly pretty, but a big ass tower, which you can go up...









This is the view from the top of this tower, it is pretty high and really does give you the best view of Dortmund. If you look in the picture (probably best if you enlarge to see it properly by clicking on it) you can see the RWE building (to the left of my Sun glasses). This is right by the park, also, I have drawn an orange circle around where I live!!!!



Last few days now - it's frightening how quickly this has gone by, I can't believe that 4 days from now I will be home.

Odd things to see

Okay, went to see You Don't mess with the Zohan - very odd, but very good! (This hinges on whether or not you like Adam Sandler).

But the really odd thing to see, was a Red Squirrel. I've never seen one before, and there one bumbles past my apartment window. Cool eh?