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Plus ça change / Travelogue - 21/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]

Plus ça change / Travelogue

This may have been the first blog-like thing I ever wrote. I never showed it to anyone at the time because I was afraid I would offend someone but it evidently really needed to be written, as evidenced by its somewhat rambling style. I have since reconciled myself to the idea of being a moody, touchy git, by the way. Don't worry, though: only my best friends see my really bad side.

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So, this afternoon Anja and I decided to explore a branch of the extensive KVV network. We opted for the S5 route because a) it stops almost right outside my flat and b) it has the added ooooh-factor of going over the Rhine, a couple of miles or so west of Karlsruhe. The S5 terminates in a wee settlement called Wörth, so we took the time to explore the environs before heading back to the big smoke. Our brief recon sortie yielded the following interesting factoids:

• Wörth seems to consist of endless little pedestrian footpaths leading into and through a multitude of residential housing "schemes".
• Dotted with alarming regularity along these thoroughfares are assorted playground apparatus; swings, roundabouts, see-saws etc.
• The see-saw was crap. Or maybe our grossly disparate weights had something to do with it.
• The giant hamster-wheel is fucking dangerous.
• The only place in the town that is open on a Sunday does some damn nice Stracciatella and a self-explanatoriarililly roaring trade.
• That kid who was wearing the dazzling silver shirt and tie needs to be thrown in the Rhine.

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