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Pictures from a Biergarten Afternoon

A walk through MunichLöwenbräuLöwenbräuLöwebnbräu and SpatenAugustiner BiergartenAugustiner BiergartenThe brewkettles at Spaten FranziskanerJanet with a RadlermaßAvery with an Edelstoff MaßAugustiner Biergarten SchmankerlAugustiner Biergarten SchmankerlMaß CoversStecklerfisch at AugustinerA MaßThe end of a Maß

Pictures from our afternoon at the Augustiner Biergarten. Edelstoff good.

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By Avery – August 3, 2003

Another day…

There is nothing like a nice cold Augustiner beer after a long stressful day of dealing with the Führerscheinstelle to change our driver licenses over from US to German and taking the cat to the Tierarzt because she hasn’t been eating and is dehydrated.

But the day is finally over and I can sit down to a nice half liter while watching a bisschen of english television on Premiere and itching a nasty sunburn that has just started to peel.

Tschüss for now…

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By Avery – July 30, 2003

Beware…

Beware the Bear! Love Parade, 2003. Picture by Stephan Hartmann

Beware The Bear!

Love Parade, 2003
Berlin

Photo by Stephan Hartmann

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By Avery – July 29, 2003

Images of a Maibaum Fest

Maibaumfest 2003 – Zorneding, Bayern

By the way, this isn’t a recreation or something done for tourists. This is real life in Bavaria.

The Maibaum (May Pole) at 10am
Getting ready to lift
The beginning of the lift
The Maibaum
The crowd... watching and drinking bier
Another lift
Kids climbing a mini maibaum
More of the mini maibaum
Mini maibaum
The lifting continues
11am (approx)
The lifting continues
Lifting continues
A friend of our hosts at lunch
12:30
The Maibaum is finally up!
The top of the Maibaum
A decorated Maibaum, 4:00
The Maibaum is complete.


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By Avery – May 1, 2003

Urine soaked subways and it's not San Francisco?

Nope. Running neck and neck with San Francisco for the Shittiest Subways in the World award… enter London.

We spent Easter weekend there, and experienced possibly the best and the worst a city can offer. Hotels under renovation, a decimated public transport system, bobbies, palaces and pre made sandwiches. Tune in soon for our review of warm beer, dessicated sausages that could have been in the oven since the Summer in Love and an airline that believes that the best way to show their commitment to service is to tell someone to screw themselves.

All this and more in the slightly more frequently updated Scowl, Nu?

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By Avery – April 28, 2003

Pining for the Fjords? City Review: Oslo

City Review – Oslo Norway


Well, faithful readers, as part of my new position, I am getting the opportunity to travel around Europe to support my customer base. This week, it was a quick 20 hour trip to Oslo, Norway.

What can I say about Norway? 8 Euros for a .4 liter beer (in München, it's 2.60 Euros for a half liter&#41. Lots of salmon. Oh, and that smoked fish that looked like kippered salmon? Eel. Complete with a spinal column and all. Five glasses of milk, a couple of eggs (some hard boiled, some scrambled&#41 and salmon. And the eel. And a baked potato. And three beers that probably cost me close to 24 Euros.

On the plus side, everything looks like a sauna. No shit here, folks. Lots of cedar everywhere. The Oslo Flughavn is full of it. The offices are full of it. When it's warm, it smells just like, well, a sauna. Or a cedar chest. Or an old guy that took a sauna and then put on a sweater that was sitting in a cedar chest. You get the idea.

Nice place. When I make my millions, I will certainly take a vacation there just to explore one of the few places where you can ski in the morning and sail in the afternoon. Until then, I'll go to a sauna, drink a beer and tip 100 percent and listen to Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch.

Norwegian Blue? Beautiful Plumage…

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By Avery – April 28, 2003