Hello Everyone. I just got back from Germany today. Four of us went, the other three had 'pen pal' friend people and I'd found one so we all had somewhere free to stay with food, which was good. Our plan was to spend a week loitering around in Alsfeld (picturesque smallish town east of Frankfurt, in the centre) and maybe say some xenophobic anti-german comments relating to the war, loudly, in jest, of course and eat ice cream and buy CDs. Then on saturday I found myself amongst 750,000 barely-clad flourescent germans dancing to loud house music coming from trucks in Berlin. It was interesting, I felt a bit out of place in my jeans and red knitted cardigan (not as hot as it sounds), though the weather was hot. A highlight was definately and break in the doom,doom,doom,doom drum beat for 15 seconds of the Doors' 'The End' and I heard 2 house versions of Minnie Riperton songs around, Lovin' you and Inside my love (the "2 people... song). We were getting a bit desperate for any half decent music with tunes. The house version of the doors song was a big improvement on Will Young's take on light my fire. Actually met a girl called Nicole who calls her dad Papa, we thought this was brilliant and there were lots of reinactions of "papa" ... "nicole" ( from the advert). Things could only go down hill from there and I was deeply dissappointed when in reply to my " your 3 wishes and no 'more wishes', 'lots of money', world peace' " she replied with " long healthy life for me and family and friends" how uttlerly unimaginative. But she did redeem herself in general conversation and she picked chocolate over cheese in my long running asking everyone which they prefer. These two question go out to anyone if you want to answer, I'd be interested. One morning the host mother was talking to me about the Reichstag and Hitler and I spent the whole time desperately wanting to ask her with an innocent face who Hitler was. I didn't. Germany is cleaner than England and there are lots of those power generating windmills, but the food isn't as good. By the way I've never heard of the cave art in Derbyshire but I'm intrigued. Has anyone ever heard of the phrase "to sleep with the fishes" ? Tchuss Emma +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+