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Comment on Gerglish by FatCat

FatCat — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:14:03 +0000

Hi there,

I have a feeling that trains terminate in the UK too, but that’s not the reason I am leaving this comment.

We have just returned from skiing in Austria, where the hotel hosts kindly provided us with printed weather forecast translations at breakfast time. They often contained wonderful examples of Gerglish. All was done with the best intentions, so I can hardly criticise them, but we did giggle at breakfast having read such things as:

“While all come down to Monday for a short time a little more cloud cover, with perhaps periodic rain, but soon sat down again by the sun and temperatures in the afternoon close to 15 degrees.”

“On Friday in North Tyrol continued willingness of rain” (we loved this, it describes our weather in NW UK ever so well)

“In the following days the weather stabilises and then slowly it starts to loosen up more.”

“On Wednesday the clouds in the country are everywhere tight, especially in the south to expect more rain showers and rain showers, some heavy hair dryer blowing in Northern Tyrol”

Greetings from sunny Lancaster
(with continued willingness of rain)

Comment on To the seaside by Vera

Vera — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:32:56 +0000

I had not checked out your blog for a while, so it was nice to see the posting on your trip to Binz; what a quaint seaside village! I know that is old news now, so we are ready for the latest…

Comment on Mediterranean Pt. 2 by Vera

Vera — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:18:58 +0000

When I read and see all this I almost wonder why I moved away from Holland so many years ago. What a fabulous time you are having. Can’t wait to see you in a couple of weeks!

Comment on And soon there will be three by Falko

Falko — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:53:59 +0000

Oh wow! Congratulations to you both and welcome to the club That will be awesome. The Like-Button is not big enough here. I’m happy with you.

Comment on The great Schnitzel coma of 2010 by Vera

Vera — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:31:20 +0000

I am so glad you are blogging again. We missed it! Love that neat camera gadget you have and all the good food that you ate. Yes, you do like to eat everything and I wish I was there to have some of it with you!

Comment on Mayrhofen 2010 video by Josh

Josh — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:23:57 +0000

Thanks Lukasz! It’s a GoPro HD Hero camera. Very fun. I’ll bring it along on Trabi Safari today

Comment on Mayrhofen 2010 video by Lukasz

Lukasz — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:27:56 +0000

great video!! we love it with my wife!
You’ll need to tell me what device are You using at the end of the stick.

Comment on We survived! by The great Schnitzel coma of 2010 at Ex-pat Newlyweds

The great Schnitzel coma of 2010 at Ex-pat Newlyweds — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:46:07 +0000

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Comment on Farewell Opa by Paul van Harte

Paul van Harte — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:03:42 +0000

Josh, those were really nice words! I know Opa and Oma always enjoyed spending time with you and Sabine and appreciated all you did for them.
Thanks from the bottom of my heart. We will see you guys in January.
Love Paul

Comment on Farewell Opa by Emily

Emily — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:20:39 +0000

Josh and Sabine,

I am so sorry for the loss of your Opa. This is a beautiful story and a lovely tribute to such a fine man. Thank you for sharing it. I’ll be thinking of you and your family and smiling at the thought of your grandparents reuniting.

Emily