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18 hours Hamburg

Home sweet home one would say, but being in Hamburg for less than a day wasn’t – surprisingly much. I had to change a couple things from my bags (don’t need suits and ties in Halifax) and could be bothered to do that before hand 5 weeks ago. Due to the hospitality of my wonderful sublerette, I stayed with her at my my place.

Luise - my wonderful sublerette

In a chat with the O.C. Banker – waving to California – I carelessly. made the comment that >> I will now get for Luise and me Sunday-breakfast at the local bakery  << without ever having mentioned her name to him before. A sudden WHO …, WHAT …, was the dramatic response. Clarification was of course promptly given.

However due to the vast amount of US-Prime-time-Episodes in my possession she is now addicted to HIMYM, what she until now denies, but I think the steady increase of the nightly Barney-Legen … wait for it .. dary-Dose will prove me right.
But girl, don’t worry, we’ll provide you with Season II-III. (Bro’Code Law 49).

So now sitting in the -already late ICE* to Heidelberg (without having even moved one inch from Altona), I say good-by to the most wonderful city in world (one last glance over the Alster towards the Jungfernstieg).

C U Perle, .. in 2009 !!!!!

* ALWAYS get your long-distance train from Altona on a Sunday Afternoon
WITHOUT having any kind of reservation !!!

Leavin’ London

I don’t now what is it about Heathrow Terminal 5 … (I am currently sitting here bloggin’ and chatting with Australien friend Wolle the greatest, due to the courtesy of BA’s Senator Lounge Free WiFi – not that I would be any near of that privilege, but today I am lucky, they have not crypted it .. )

… yes it is quite nice, new, spacious and light .. but so … Oslo Airport’s insides are beautiful as well, Munich as well … I don’t really understand the fuzz about it. Hope so my bags will come with me on my plane !!!

I think I become a little bit spoiled, but if you have to wait 25 minutes in front of the Fast Bag Drop Off, you get somehow annoyed … But still, respect to BA (!), 23kg of exceeding baggage only 24 £. That’s a deal, I’d say. Next trip will be with Air Canada, we’ll look, how this is going .. until then ..

Life in the City

I actually have to set up a category Seen it .. done it .. boring, dude. , because that will definitely not qualify! In good remembrance of the legendary two (keep it up Buschman&PartyMartin)

Champagne Your Life …

London, Exchange Square, near Liverpool Street

Going to the Movies

After running through all London (Covent Garden, Piccadilly, Soho, British Museum, etc) I decided to buy a ticket at an awfully expensive Leicester Square theatre (over 10 £ !!!) to see Batman – the Dark Knight.
Reflecting on the other choice (spending 19 quid on a fancy balcony seat) I am still rather frustrated. There was a real limitation of space, can’t put my feet anywhere, it was hot and had kind of weird angle to the screen. I don’t know what almost 25,- Euro had bought me, but this .. not worth it, and unfortunately had maybe some effect on the film.

The film (no spoiler alert promise!) is obviously and along with all the critics fantastically made, really good picture, tremendous sound and everything (like from a cinematographic point of view) is really really good. But the characters and how the story flows puts a contrast to that. The story never spins around, has any remarkable twists and turns, no paces and lacks of sort of kind glorifying moments (at least none of the scene had such kind of effect on me as for example Mission Impossible II had, when John Woo lets his doves fly around of Tom is jumping out of a skyscraper leaving his girl behind).
Even (maybe a bit spoiler alert now!) when coming up to the “decision sequence”, deciding which way to go to save her/him; there’s no building up to that decision, no controversy, just mounting your super-duper motorbike and off-u-go. I think there could have been so much more out of this. Whereas I could feel Bruce’s suffering and disturbance within himself in the first part, I could see nothing in this one. I hoped when he has is scene with Rachel and kissing her, but no … no popp, no nothing of an emotional something.

Turning to Heath! Yes he is good, wonderful and so on … . He tackles the task becoming as well as establishing a new joker bravely (not an easy one having Jack Nicholson as permanent stigma in your head), and he succeeds in doing so. But all the tremendous roars about an OSCAR. Mhmm .. I don’t know. Maybe I have to see it again on BluRay (@Peter Stronghold: are u buying that one?) and give him another chance to show me more subtle characteristics.

All in all a good movie, yet hated the atmosphere within the cinema. See it if you like Batman, but yet there are more intense and more ground shattering big blast smashing dark action movies.

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