It is now four years since I started driving a car powered by bio-ethanol. Those four years ended yesterday when I returned the car to the dealer with only a few days left to run on the lease.
The car that I have replaced it with no longer runs on bio-ethanol (E85), although it does use the new E10 fuel.
So how have those four years been and why did I switch back?
Well, whilst on the one hand it was nice to try something new [Read more…]
The island of Rügen has lots of things for visitors to do and see, especially in the summer months.
Here are just 10 of ideas that we have:
The Rasender Roland in Putbus station
1. Take a ride on the Rasender Roland from Putbus to Lauterbacher Mole or Göhren.
2. Visit the Rügenpark and see Rügen in miniature – where the entrance price for children is decided by their height
3. View the island from the top of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Tower in Bergen auf Rügen.
4. Climb aboard a yacht and sail round the cost to see the chalk cliffs.
“Toll im Quadrat” – roughly translated it can mean either “great in a square” or “great squared” – was a show at the Klinik Hohe Mark in Oberursel last Friday.
Advertised as being “not just a Flamenco Revue”, it was a mixture of dance, songs and one might even say sketches performed by local graphic designer and dancer Nathalie Karg with John “Lobito” Opheim on the guitar and singer and percussionist Manuel Lojo “Ardillita” in front of an audience of 140 people.
Much of the music had a Spanish feel to it, even to the extent of “My Way” sung in Spanish, with more serious tones such as the homage to Salvador Dalí but mixed with light-hearted elements and in some cases performed against daring backdrops, such as a large photo of a cucumber.
Would you perform in Spanish in front of a giant cucumber?
After the interval, [Read more…]
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