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Live-Nacht in Ludwigsburg - Friday 18.Apr.2008 - Live-Nacht Ludwigsburg am Freitag, den 18. April My wife and I are hitting the town Friday night here in Ludwigsburg: 20 bands are playing at 20 restaurants and clubs. Access to the shows is 8€ bought in advance or 11€ night of the shows. Some of you from Stuttgart orther near by areas may want to show up?… read more…

Biennial "Luminale" lighting festival in Frankfurt - Tonight is the last night of the biennial "Luminale" festival - which runs in parallel to the Light+Building Exhibition at the Messe. I've been told on good authority that the various light installations around town are well-worth seeing - and you can find out more here including a downloadable pdf of the full programme. The "Light Roof" connecting the Zeil, Banking District, Hauptwache, Goetheplatz, Kaiserplatz and Taunusanlage… read more…

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Fri 09.May
Bergkirchweih in Erlangen  Mountainside beer festival, 8-19.May....
 
Friday Night Drinking Club (FNDC)  Next: @ see thread for detail...
 
Hamburg harbour festival (Hafengeburtstag)  Live Irish and Engli...
 
Meet up for dinner or drinks in Essen  Sometime before
 
Movie: Iron Man @ Metropolis Cologne  Meetup sometime during the...
Sat 10.May
Bergkirchweih in Erlangen  Mountainside beer festival, 8-19.May....
 
Concert: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss   @ Philipshalle, Düsse...
 
Hamburg harbour festival (Hafengeburtstag)  Live Irish and Engli...
Sun 11.May
Bergkirchweih in Erlangen  Mountainside beer festival, 8-19.May....
 
Car boot sale at Dempsey Barracks, Paderborn  Royal British Legi...
 
Drinking buddies sought in Frankfurt   or 11-12.May.2008
 
Hamburg harbour festival (Hafengeburtstag)  Live Irish and Engli...
 
Pub quiz at Finnegan's Wake Irish pub  Every evening in Hamburg
 
Watching Manchester United clinch title #17   @ Finnegans Irish ...
Mon 12.May
Bergkirchweih in Erlangen  Mountainside beer festival, 8-19.May....
 
Drinking buddies sought in Frankfurt   or 11-12.May.2008

Public drinking banned in wine-happy Heidelberg - After Freiburg and Marburg the tourist Mecca Heidelberg will be banning alcohol from its streets on weekends and holidays from 9 pm to 5 am. City Hall is blaming the increase in brawls on informal congregations of drinkers who buy their booze in neighboring shops and gather in public squares and streets, getting drunk, disorderly and aggressive. Deputy mayor Wolfgang Erichson said, however, that beer gardens and street cafes in the popular old town… read more…

Nuclear Water Wonderland in Kalkar - Just outside of Kalkar in NRW lies a huge nuclear reactor that was ultimately never taken online. The SNR-300 "Fast Breeder" (a neutron reactor that creates more fuel than it uses) was needed since Germany has a limited supply of uranium and wanted to limit imports. When dutch businessman Hennie van der Most bought the complex in 1995, he decided to turn it into a hotel and amusement park - "Kernwasser Wunderland", later renamed… read more…

Freibank Fashion Fair (Frankfurt) - For those fashion conscious girls and those who would like to be in Frankfurt there is a fashion fair on this weekend. Lots of big labels will be exhibiting and it will be kicking off tonight with a fashion show and party afterwards. So for those of you who fancy a good night of clubbing. Freibank Fashion Fair Taken from the website: DIE FREIBANK FASHION FAIR LANDET WIEDER AUF DEM UFO! Auf über 1.000 Quadratmetern präsentieren Aussteller aus… read more…

Classic car show at Stuttgart Messe - The town that brought you the motor-car will shortly be hosting the 2008 Retro Classics motor show (this weekend 14-16th March 2008). If its anything like the UK classic car shows, it will offer a fantastic trip down memory lane - the real oldies are joined by so-called Young Timers, i.e. Opel Mantra, Golf Mk 1 etc. It is located at Stuttgart Messe so easy to reach, even for us out-of-towners.… read more…

Düsseldorf's police dogs to wear protective shoes - From the Polizei NRW press portal: Schutzschuhe für Düsseldorfer Polizeidiensthunde. Mainly as a protection against shards of glass, the dog squadron of the Düsseldorf police force has purchased 20 sets of commercially available protective shoes for their four-legged colleagues. Apparently there's a problem in Düsseldorf with beer bottles being discarded on the pebbled walkways of the Altstadt. The dogs are currently on patrolling safe ground… read more…

SPEZI - bike show for special and unusual bikes - To avoid confusion, this is not a thread for fans of soft drinks Germersheim will again be playing host to SPEZI, which bills itself as "Europe's largest Show for recumbents, recumbent tricycles, quadracycles, folding cycles, tandems, family cycles, velomobiles, transporters, electrical bikes, special needs bikes, adult kick scooters, child and load trailers, customized designs, accessories". I haven't been before myself but have read… read more…

Ludwigsburg's 2008 Schlossfestspiele - Ludwigsburg is celebrating her 75th Schlossfestspiele this April with an impressive lineup. Check it out: Die Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele / Internationale Festspiele Termine 2008 Frühjahr: 4. - 13. April (das Programm erscheint Ende November 2007) Sommer: 30. Mai - 27. Juli (das Programm erscheint Anfang März 2008) Herbst: 21. - 30. November (das Programm erscheint Anfang März 2008)… read more…

Man throws Christmas tree and self out of window - Last Saturday a 20-year-old man in Mönchengladbach decided to throw his Christmas tree out of the window instead of schlepping it down the stairs. It's not clear exactly what then happened. But somehow he threw himself with it and fell seven meters onto the sidewalk below. He's now in hospital suffering serious head injuries. Source: Mönchengladbach - Mann fiel mit Tanne aus dem Fenster… read more…

El Chango Steakhouse in Cologne - I highly recommend El Chango in central Cologne if you are in the mood for a great steak. This place was recommended by a local we met in an Irish pub, it is did not disappoint. My mom and I had a great meal! For a starter we had this amazing garlicky shrimp thing- I can't remember the name, but it is at the top of the right page of vorspeisen. For entrees, we both had the Filet Mignon and shared a few sides (baked potato and spinach). There are… read more…

Great Egyptian mummies show, Stuttgart & Mannheim - Egyptian Mummies - Immortality in the Land of the Pharaohs The large state exhibition "Egyptian Mummies - Immortality in the Land of the Pharaohs" at Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, (06 October 2007 to 24 March 2008) under the patronage of the First Lady of Egypt, Suzanne Thabet Mubarak, and of the Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, Günther H. Oettingen, gets to the bottom of the origins of the Egypt belief of the dead and… read more…

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