Jeremy & Joanna Tour Europe!

Monday, 1 January 2007

NYE Shenanigans

Well Since getting back from Germany we’ve been showing Jo’s Brother Roy around London and the surrounds. Spent a day wandering the city and visiting a few places like the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, and the British Museum, Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus and all your Monopoly favourites! We managed to squeeze in a day trip to Oxford and another one to Greenwich, both of which are really nice but probably nicer in the summer as is most of this country.

Then it was time to say hello to the New Year!! Without much idea of what to do or where to go or who with this New Year, we managed to attach ourselves to a party that our flatmate knew about. It was a fancy hat affair at a pub in Angel, and although many people were too cool to where a hat, we certainly weren’t!!! We actually had the best hats at the party, everybody thought so, well, we did anyway. See my instructional notes on how to construct the best New Years party hat!

How to construct the best New Years Eve party hat…ever!

Step 1: Look up a pattern for making a newspaper hat on the Internet

Step 2: Go down to the corner shop and buy the sleaziest tabloid paper available.

Step 3: Search through the paper for all the pages that have big half-page colour photos of girls with big boobs dressed in their underwear or bikini’s.

Step 4: Use the pattern from the Internet to fold the be-boobed paper into a hat (ensuring that maximum boob and ass is visible)

Step 5: Be proud of your hat and point out regularly to people you have never met before that your hat has boobs on it!

New Years was great, not only because of our hats and the fact that Jo’s brother was in London (loved the dance moves Roy) but also because our old friend Ian was there, dancing up a storm with some of the lovely ladies. He also brought along an equally cool guy, Constable Mikey! Hey guys just want to say thanks for the champagne! There were loads of other cool people at the party that need a mention too there’s our very cool flatmates Shannon and Brett, Our Queue-buddy Debbie (you would have been cooler in one of our boobed hats), Renee who fed us before the party and of course the omniscient Jef (great party, thanks for the 4^th generation invitiation)!

Queue buddies! The Boys in their Boob hats with Debbie

Ian's hat had it all, Boobs and it said 'Happy New Year'!

We're in, finally!!

And pleased to have some drinks!!

I'll leave the rest to your imagination, but it's safe to say a good night was had by all!!

Happy New Year!!!!!

Christmas in Germany

So following our previous adventures in Germany we settled down for a few days of solid eating over Christmas.

Christmas Eve dinner. Click here to see a video of this awesome drink we had as well. Basically you start with warm red wine, place a cone of compacted sugar over the top, douse in 80% rum, and set on fire!! The caramelised sugar drips into the wine!! Yummy!

The Boys hungry with anticipation (Lars, Roy and Sven)

Christmas Day lunch

Mmm... Yummy!!

Phew! That was good!

A few drinks round the fire.. Jeremy and Roy were given so many they didn't have enough hands!!

Christmas Day dinner, where we got into the singing and dancing!

And finally Boxing Day lunch.. we were so full after eating solidly for 3 days, we thought we would never have to eat again!!

Down the Autobahn, Whee!! (Oops, don't think Mum will approve of that one!)

Going for a walk...

To a pretty German castle!! Click here to see everyone there.

Sunday, 24 December 2006

Even if it's your birthday, you still need your passport to fly!!

Or so Jo discovered when she tried to get to Germany without hers!! So in a mad panic, she jumped into a cab home to get it, but only after remembering that she didn't actually have any keys to the house as she had lent them to Tori, who would be staying for a few days while Jo and Jeremy were away, but was currently taking her sister to a different airport. A quick phone call home confirmed that Shannon, Jo and Jeremy's housemate (Gingerbread house-maker from previous post), was still home and would let Jo in, Phew! The rest was a race against time... So Jo arrived back at the airport 10 min after check-in closed :( but thankfully they re-opened check in and let us through, only for the plane to be then running over 1hr late!! But we made it to Germany in the end and I suppose that is the most important thing!!

Since being here we have been spoilt rotten!! We have eaten like kings, and been taken around to some really cool places!! When we first arrived we relaxed for a few days around Wittenberg, where Jo's family live, about 1hr from Berlin. A few days later Jo's brother arrived, which is when the fun really started. We've been to the Christmas markets in Leipzig and drunk Gluhwein, been down a copper mine, visited the Kyffhauser Denkmal - a national German monument with stunning views and the deepest castle well in the world, seen one of the largest paintings in Germany, if not the world (14m x 126m), and we even were treated to an extra special surprise!!!

We were picked by Lars one morning and taken for drive, with no idea where we were going... after about half an hour we could see some small plane hangers coming into sight. Hmm this is interesting, then all of a sudden we turned into the airport, now things are getting even more interesting. It wasn't until Lars had led us over to a small 4 seater light plane that it became completely clear that Lars actually had his pilots lisence and planned to take us all up for a joy flight over the German countryside!!!!! We flew over their hometown of Wittenberg and even some of the surrounding towns. We saw some old castles from the region, flew over fields of a few dozen power generating windmills (pretty cool), the River Elbe, and some old flooded coal mines. We had such a good time that while Lars was teaching his co-pilot (Jo's brother Roy) about G-forces and altimeters and the plane going left and right and up and down and sideways and on angles that Jo and Jeremy in the back managed to reaquaint themselves with their breakfast, Ick! But in truth a great surprise, Thanks Lars!!!!!!!

The Christmas Markets in Leipzig

Christmas Markets

The copper mine

Down in the copper mine

Kyffhauser Denkmal

Dog parking at the Kyffhauser Denkmal

The deepest castle well in the world!

Getting ready to go flying

All ready to go!

Roy looking pretty excited!

View from the plane

Christmas in The Wood

So Jeremy and I are in Germany now and it's Christmas tomorrow!! I will try and post some photos soon, we have done some AWESOME stuff since we've been here.

But because most of the housemates were going to be away at Christmas, we had Chrissie in London a week early... so here are a couple of photos from the day...