When we were young!

TIAMAT on their 1995 tour - which I sorrowfully missed to finally see them - well, was it 1996 or 1997? But I know someone, who was on this tour...

A torture camp close to home

Sometimes the shocking (historical) news come via television: The British Guardian has found out after a long and deep research that the British had an interrogation camp - or, to call it bluntly as it was revealed: a torture camp in Bad Nenndorf, near Hannover.

The German high-quality television magazine Panorama tracked this trace, met with local witnesses (which are now, 60 years later, trying to put together the faint memories), British officers and soldiers and the last survivers beyond their victims.

Well, Bad Nenndorf is close to the place where I grew up, the town I went to school in. I remember 11 years ago in 1995 there were many local "oral history work groups" which dealt with the war and post-war time. But a topic like this never came up, even though the time "under" the Brits was a huge topic. The detailed German outline of the tv documentary can be read here.

french military victories

As we were speaking about the 100 year's war: This joke about France and it's military victories is pretty nice, even though it brought major problems to Google. Can't understand why ;-)

Gran Turismo or: vakantiereis in Vlaanderen

It was a spontaneous decision - a friend of mine was travelling the same direction anyway, so I had a lift - I had an invitation. Yeeha, so I was on my way to Kortrijk in Belgium. Nice holidays with nice friends, a big CHEERS and THANKS! In Kortrijk was a fun fair going on this week, so we spent a lot of time at funny things like shooting games.

And of course I spent some money in the local record store...

The sunday started with a seemingly major event in the region - the Ronde van Vlaanderen. I saw many famous racing cyclists - but I recognized only a few, among them Jaan Kirsipuu - and Erik Zabel, who later scored no. 4.

Well, so much about Kortrijk - next time I'm gonna take a closer look at the River "Leie" or "Lys" as it is called in France - or "The Golden River" as it was called during the high times of the linen industries. And the Linen Museum.

Also I'm gonna search for the traces of Breydel und Coninck next time I'm gonna visit Kortijk. Both were leading the Flemish in the Battle of the Golden Spurs or "Guldensporenslag" which the Flemish won against France. The "Guldensporenslag" was the prelimenary for the 100 Years War, but we don't wanna talk about it now, well?!