so much for my feabled attempt at blogging on the road while traveling through germany.a with intermittent internet service and pure exhaustion at the end of each day it was an impossible task.a and now lulu is back home and trying desperately to recover from jet lag.a my eyes start rolling into the back of my head by 800 each evening and its beginning to really aggravate mea i guess the older you...
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before visiting germany a few years ago i didnt know very much about german history or culture and didnt really care to. i had always had a warm place in my heart for france and felt my gallic tastes were fundamentally at odds with what little i had grasped of life in germany. as i saw things the french language was smoother and more mellifluous than german the french favored wine as i do where ge...
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i think many princesses dream of living in or at least visiting beautiful castles. the very image of these buildings evokes romantic notions of eras past knights and nobles banquets and balls tapestries and tourneys i think it must have been amazing experience to live in one of these grand estates. today i present to you some of the most beautiful and famous castles in europe i hope you will enjoy...
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on day four of my trip i visited neuschwanstein castle a little over an hour away from garmischpa rtenkirche n.a the castle was probably my favorite part of my trip to germany.a the castle was very impressive sitting high up on the hill.a they say that this is the castle that disney modeled his sleeping beauty castleaaft er. king ludwig ii was a very interesting man.a im looking forward t...
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when the zemeckis beowulf movie came out last year several commentators insisted that a fresh reading often gives new life to an ancient work. blogging medievalists werent necessarily hostile to that notion accustomed as they are to studying stories that change over time but most didnt think the reworking of the epic succeeded on its own merits. recently i wondered which film adaptations of mediev...
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... castillo fue elegido por disney como modelo para el castillo de la bella durmiente. de hecho existe una raplica del mismo en disneyland resort paris. acamo llegar alla mas info en inglas httpwww.ne uschwanste in.deengli shindex.ht m......
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