First, we might possibly have a second car in two weeks. Not this week, because of work (J's, not mine). Second, Bad Winsheim travels will be getting posted soon. Third, well...little things I've done in the meantime.
Dog walking and taking J to work has created the necessity for a second car. We recently found one that we think will work: cheap, VW, moderate mileage, well maintained, small, and (hopefully) fuel efficient. It's a stick shift, so I'm going to very much enjoy having more control over a car engine again. Don't worry, it will be staying here when we get around to leaving back for the states. In the meantime, it will be our little mule. No pictures yet, but worry not...they will come.
While I doubt I'll be seeing some of the more popular sites of Bad Winsheim, i.e. the Fraenkrische Therme or French Spa which is an over-the-top brine hot tub/massage/sauna/restaurant experience, there are a few sights around that I'd like to check out. One such item is a freaking huge statue of some king or something. It looks like it's out of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. There is also supposedly an outdoor museum and a historic town where people role-play villagers...at least, this is my understanding. We'll also have the dog in tow, which is nice because it's cheaper and I'll have an excuse to keep my exercising up:)
Now, for the past several days. One of the advantages of living near an Air Force Base is that you regularly see a lot of planes in the air one normally wouldn't see. This past week, I saw this ultra-light plane flying around overhead. Rod? I'm hoping you can identify this one for me as you are far better at planes than I am. Sorry about this picture, it was the best I could do at the time.
J and I also received a random program in the mail for what I thought was a soccer game tournament. Turns out, it was a rifle shooting tournament taking place in our very town! This was too bad because we actually would have attended it. In the program, they had a brief bio on each shooter. Coincidentally, because I properly decoded the program, while walking the dog that morning I heard three rifle shots in the distance. There are plenty of hunting stands around, so to actually have one of them used was unusual but not unexpected. I then come up to find this at the edge of the trail we usually take...
At the time, there was a red and white tape across the gate shown. Once we got this close, a jeep came up from the other side, presumably the hunter, and just drove right through the tape. I guess that's how it's done here. While I have not translated the sign, I read it to say "trail hunting" or something like that. After our walk, the hunter got together with two other hunters with their own cars at the entrance to the trail. Soon after they all left in a caravan. Interestingly enough, I did not see any game with them nor weapons of any kind.
This week will be more active on the posts than usual as I will have more time on my hands than usual AND will be taking more pictures.
3 comments:
You are going to learn how to drive a stick shift with your left hand. Ballsy. I've opted to hire only automatics as the manual scare the hell out of me. Good luck on that.
Rifle tournament, you have to participate in the next one.
Hehe. Let's learn German! "treiben" means "to drive" (as in driving a flock of sheep, not driving a vehicle, that would be "fahren"). Printer and other drivers on your computer would be "Treiber", and if our management speak of "something driving sales", that would also be "etwas, das den Umsatz treibt".
A "Treibjagd" involves a lot of people making a lot of noise to drive wildlife towards another lot of people with a lot of guns. It is prudent to be easily identifiable as human in such an environment... or just to hike somewhere else.
To Kaleb: Nope, the stick shifts here are just as in the states: steering wheel with left hand, shifter on the right. Yeah, I'm not sure if I could flip sides on a stick that quickly as one would have to in NZ. Cool story about the Triathlon you saw, btw.
To Stephan: Wow! Then it was really good that I did not cross that tape. Very cool to know about Treibjagd. I honestly don't think they do that in the states, or at least in that way. The closest thing to it I can think of would be "flushing" where dogs are used to scare or flush out game animals by running and barking.
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