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.

Monday 24 March 2008

Fremantle, Wednesday

Our last complete day in OZ.

Holy shit , where did those four weeks went? We had a really lazy day, wandering around, looking for the Kulcha, Fly By Night and Sail And Anchor, visiting the WA Maritime Museum, spending some time on the beach, reading, gathering strenght for the evening. Last opportunity to have some Australian beers and maybe even spot some of Tigh's list.

So around 7.30 we went out to have dinner at Cicerello's (yummy seafood, Harald had a grilled Barramundi that was stunning). The first time I was given a pager that peeped and blinked to indicate that our food was ready and could be picked up and a red bucket with ice to keep our bottle of wine cool. Lovely sunset in the harbour and , apart from those pushy seagulls, a serene dinner.

After that we were ready for a pub crawl. We started at the Sail and Anchor and tried our way through some of their homebrewed stuff. The Brass Monkey Stout has to be my favourite. Then we trundled through some others whose names I can't remember but where I finally found and enjoyed Redback Wheat beer until we landed at Rosie O'Grady's pub which had live music and where we finally let the evening die away. I had more than my share and was dead tired, so we went back to our room for what was left of the night.

Yep, really a place where you could spend a few days.

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