Palatine wood gnome: Changing states; Saturday

Palatine Wood Gnome

There are many that spread over a much larger territory; that host a wider range of peculiar plants or give shelter to much more interesting wildlife species.
But the Palatine Forest is the largest coherent wood in Germany and, most of all: It's my home.
Why "Wood Gnome"?
Well, I have been named thus because I turn into Rumpelstiltskin kind of regularly when "visitors" come over from the other side of the Rhine Plains (where they have lots of forest as well...) with their huge cars, jamming the streets of my village, drive up to a forester's lodge, have lunch there, return home after a final cup of coffee and then claim "Oh, we have been to the WOODS this weekend"

That's why.

Friday 14 March 2008

Changing states; Saturday

I awoke the next morning surprisingly early and even more surprisingly fit, no hungover (I think Harald was so kind as to suffer from mine as well, the poor guy was devastated) and hungry again. I hope Andrew Pattison will never find out but last night I had to get rid of that last glass of Shiraz in a very unladylike manner; though the wine was superb, don't get me wrong, but there was something about that last bottle....

After a hearty breakfast the day started with music again at 10:30 ,

First Songs from Enda Kenny, Michelle Chandler and Kieran Halpin. First song meaning the first song that made them want to become a singer, the first song they performed live and the first song they themselves wrote. We could only stay for the first hour as we had to catch our flight to Perth later in the day, but still it was nice to start the day like that. After releaving Kieran of three more CDs we were on our way again. Enda Kenny, Michelle Chandler, Kieran
Halpin

Not much to tell about the rest of the day. You know how flights are. When we finally arrived at the hostel in Perth we were so tired that we just went for some food in Northbridge ( have you ever seen the film "The strange behaviour of sexually matured townpeople at mating season"? It was like that...) and went to bed. Not that we could have slept, there was a party going on in the common room, well into the night. And we had a very long drive ahead of us the next day, up to Shark's Bay. Guess how pleased I was.

Palatine wood gnome